SPOTLIGHT -
July 1st 2025
Doctors in India face escalating burnout and violence, risking their well-being while navigating a broken health care system. This Doctor's Day, reform is urgently needed.
June 24th 2025
Medical trainees face challenges from patient mistreatment. Frameworks like ERASE can foster supportive learning environments.
February 10th 2025
A clinician’s search for flexibility, autonomy, and ethical care leads her to a private practice that redefines work-life balance in medicine.
September 24th 2024
Rural areas suffer from a severe shortage of mental health professionals. How can nurse practitioners help?
September 17th 2024
The emergence of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners as key players in mental health care delivery has become increasingly apparent.
Introduction: Unique Needs and Innovative Opportunities
Children in foster care; combat vets; physicians with mental health needs: Dr Koh introduces a series of articles on these and other special patient populations.
Meditation, Managed Care, and Mental Health
In recent years, health care insurance companies (and the businesses that use them) have begun to invest in mindfulness research and programs What has happened to explain this development?
Extracurricular Activities for Early-Career Psychiatrists
With the standard aversion to moonlighting in the emergency department at the local hospital, lots of us have asked the same question: “What else can I do to pay the bills?”
Avoid Burnout With Self-Care and Wellness Strategies
Drained physicians who don't practice self care may harm themselves and their patients. Here's one way to take a breather.
Spring Has Sprung
Although genetic discoveries are sprouting up like wildflowers, let's stop and smell the roses.
April Fool's Lessons From a Psychiatrist
We celebrate April Fool’s Day for sound psychological reasons, and there are lessons to be learned.
Attention: Future Leaders in Psychiatry!
We invite you to join our Early Career Advisory Board and share your insights about psychiatry, your interests, ideas, and goals.
Psychiatric Times’ Writing Contest!
We are seeking your real-life story that can move, teach, and inspire other psychiatrists.
5 Mental Health Diagnostic Challenges: Update on “To Err Is Human”
After a brief description of the scope of an important IOM report, this article summarizes content that is especially relevant for psychiatrists.
Practice Patterns for ADHD and Other Disorders Collide
Recent data show that widespread discrepancy exists between clinical guidelines and practice patterns for ADHD, dementia, and bipolar disorders.
What’s With These Names in Mental Health Care?
Recently, there were two reports about concerns over changes in terminology in our field. So, what's in a name?
Digital Psychiatry: The Year Ahead
This will be a busy year as the role of new digital tools in medicine converge to offer novel opportunities to clinical care.
My New Year’s Prescription for You
We psychiatrists are best equipped to design and participate in programs to help diminish workplace triggers for burnout. And, even more important, we are well equipped to recognize signs of burnout in ourselves.
Resolving to Remember These Psychiatrists
Hopefully the words imparted here convey the scope of our profession and psychiatry at its best. We have been-and should be-so much more than the current 15-minute med check.
Hot Topics of 2015
We invite you to reflect on your diagnostic understanding of topics presented this year.
Year in Review 2015: Farewell
Remembering notable clinicians and members of the public who made a difference.
Top 10 Changes in Psychiatry
The events here were cited as the most important changes in psychiatry since 1945.
Psychiatry’s Solid Center
Most psychiatrists do not fit neatly into the biological or psychodynamic camps. Instead, like surgeons, they will implement tools that reduce the suffering and enhance the well-being of the patient.
When the Psychiatrist Has PTSD
For PTSD in psychiatrists and other mental health care providers to be addressed, a major shift in medical culture and thinking is needed.
Fraud, Waste, and Excess Profits
A report on Medicaid and Medicare fraud, excessive waste, and frivolous expenditures-all at the expense of those who suffer from psychiatric illness.
Where’s the Outrage?
What is behind the glaring lack of controls over prescription drug costs, even for everyday medications?
Convergence Science: Shaping 21st Century Psychiatry
The Medici effect is upon us in biomedicine, and it’s called convergence science.
In This Issue: Volume 32, No. 10
In this issue of Psychiatric Times, the authors cover climate change, women's health issues, forensic psychiatry, addiction and AIDS, cultural psychiatry, and other clinically useful topics.
The Sixth Annual National Update on Behavioral Emergencies
There is an impressive array of presentations and speakers at an upcoming meeting, the only one in the country to address behavioral emergencies in the acute care setting.
Forensic Psychiatry: An Essential Major Subspecialty
With a consistent and evolving presence in the US, forensic psychiatry has grown increasingly complex, with many specialty areas under its subspecialty umbrella.
The Life and Death of Two Psychiatrists
The stories of two psychiatrists who died recently-one who passed away gently at the end of a long life; the other died violently, much too soon.
Back to the Future
The Editor in Chief of Psychiatric Times discusses some of our new initiatives to bring readers the most up-to-date information in the field of psychiatry.
CME Countdown: Smoking, Neuroimaging, and More
Continuing medical education activities for clinicians who seek to improve their care for patients with mental health disorders.
Separating the Wheat From the Chaff
Don't miss the June 28th issue of the New York Times magazine with a special series on psychiatric issues that illustrate for general readers some of the most important - and exciting - advances in our field.
Quality Counts
"The time is right to use research-informed interventions and implementation strategies to address the quality chasm for mental health care," says to NIMH Director Insel.