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Transphobia and Discrimination: Transgender Athletes
The current controversy: whether individuals who have transitioned physically and hormonally from a male gender identity to a female gender identity have an undue and significant advantage in sports.
How to Develop Our Compassion Muscles: A Follow-Up
Recent data indicates a decline in compassion.
February: A Month of Diverse Love
What does Valentine’s Day, Black History Month, Groundhog Day, the Super Bowl, Snoop Dog, Tom Brady, psychiatry, and Ramadan all have in common?
Psychiatry as Courageous Social Watchdogs
How are Dr Moffic’s social psychiatric resolutions doing? Let’s check in.
Beside Suicide and Homicide, We Have the Challenge of Ecocide and Genocide
Psychiatry may often encounter suicide and homicide, but what is its relationship with ecocide and genocide?
It Is 89 Seconds to Midnight on the Doomsday Clock!
The clock is ticking…
What Time Is It (On the Doomsday Clock)?
Let’s set the clock on Doomsday.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Hostage Exchange, and the Red Cross
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Social Psychiatric News Year’s Resolutions #5: Solving our Wicked Problems Dialectically
When wicked problems arise, can we defy gravity?
Social Psychiatric New Years Resolution #4: Preventing Rotting Brains
How can we prevent brain rot?
Psychiatric Inaugurations
Comparing the inaugural oath and the Hippocratic oath…
It’s Time to Flex Our Compassion Muscles
A new report honoring Mohammad Ali and his compassion reminds us of our role in compassionate behaviors.
Peace and Conflict Resolution in Our American Psychiatric Association and the Mideast
How can the field of psychiatry support the peace process in the APA and beyond?
In Memoriam: Peter Fenwick, MD, A Pioneer in Near-Death Experiences Passes Away
Celebrating the life of a psychiatrist fascinated with death.
Social Psychiatric New Year Resolution #3: Overcoming the Loss of Who We Are, Were, and Would Be
The LA fires demonstrate the incredibly difficult process of loss and grieving past selves…
Social Psychiatric New Year Resolution #2: Stopping the Climate Bombs
What actions can mental health clinicians take to reduce climate instability?
The Winner of the Chrismukkah Contest for Peace: Kenneth Fung, MD
The winner of the Chrismukkah essay contest is…
Social Psychiatric New Year Resolution #1: Stopping Dr. Strangelove
Nuclear war capability: why we should be worried psychiatrically.
Preparing for a Socially Scary New Year and What We Can Do About It
How much fear is too much?
A Chrismukkah Essay Contest for Psychiatrists
Essay contest winners will be announced on January 6th.
A Psychiatrist in Germany Conveys That We Are Not Immune to Major Harming, But Gratefully That Is the Very Rare Exception
The harmful psychiatrists… who are they?
What I Didn’t Psychiatrically Understand in 2024. Did You?
Questions before the New Year…
In Memoriam: Psychiatrists Devoted to Child Mental Health
Remembering child psychiatrists…
Holiday Blues, Oohs, and Bad News
What are the psychological challenges of this upcoming holiday season?
Heroes and Villains
Top stories from the weekend highlighted heroes and villains and underlined the need to address mental health.
Gratitude for Taylor Swift
A psychiatrist becomes a Swiftie after exploring the positive psychiatric attributes from her music.
Headline Psychiatric Views on the Weekend’s News: Pearl Harbor, Rebellions, Notre-Dame, and Wicked
Psychiatric reflections on this weekend's news.
Managed Care and the Manhunt for a Murderer
Is the sobering news a wake-up call for managed care?
Serving or Empowering in Psychiatry
As a clinician, do you serve or empower your patients?
Gratitude as a Rhyming Attitude
On Giving Tuesday, let’s examine gratitude.