Career

The looming specter of emotional and physical exhaustion in residency often takes hold well into a physician's career. So what are we doing about it?

Making a beginning on a work memoir is one way to enhance your mental health.

In psychiatry, as in every field of medicine, there is still gender disparity in salary and promotion.

These 2 psychiatrists who recently passed away left the world a better place.

A psychiatrist realizes he is completely powerless against his patient's opiate addiction.

The points summarized in this pocket guide-drawn from actual cases-recur repeatedly as problems for practitioners.

I loved being a psychiatrist. Note the past tense.

Culture is far from having outlived its usefulness for psychiatry.

In a tale of two cases, the author comes to realize he is but one agent of change in the lives of his patients.

Strategies to reduce aggression in psychiatric treatment settings.

Here's an overview of motivation for assaults by chronically aggressive inpatients and steps to de-escalate.

Here's what's known about the growing shortage of psychiatrists -- why it's happening-- and possible solutions.

Now is the time to be vigilant and active in the advocacy efforts to fund all the terrific new opportunities the 21st Century Cures Act offers. Here are 9 aspects of the law that focus on psychiatric practice and treatment of those with serious mental illnesses.

Will the new Administration disrupt mental health coverage in this country?

Finding a smartphone health app can be a challenge for both patients and physicians. A new evaluation model can help guide informed decision-making.

In some segments of the evolving health care system, primary health care teams with psychiatry at their core are becoming a reality. Here are 6 ways psychiatrists add value to primary care health teams.

In this Letter to the Editor, practicing psychiatrist Richard Krugley, MD makes the case against the term "assisted suicide" when applied to terminally ill patients. Drs. Pies and Geppert respond.

It’s too bad that so many experts-in medicine and in other professions-can’t write for a lay audience. Here's some help.

An overview of various aspects of taking notes and suggestions for effective documentation.

This has been a busy year for mental health technologies, but 2017 promises to bring advances never before seen in psychiatry.

Health care and medical education must march ever onward-although recently there has been a growing uprising among the ranks of experienced physicians.

As our understanding of the brain and new technologies have rapidly evolved, such an extensive text on psychiatric ethics is clearly timely.

The most popular searches in Psychiatric Times during 2016. See what your colleagues are searching for and reading!

Here’s a very unscientific survey of this year’s most meaningful issues is psychiatry. Quite a year.

Dr. Moffic remembers psychiatrists whose lives provided a model for the wider field of psychiatry in 2016. They are truly "gone but not forgotten."