Psychiatric Views on the Daily News

Do we need a hero like Zorro now more than ever?

We are always ready for individual patient care. Can we also be ready for social psychiatric care?

There has been a general increase in mental disorders and disturbances on all political and religious sides over years.

Can paradoxical psychotherapy help us face our fears when it comes to society?

What serendipitous, psychological meaning can we find in music in dark times?

Is medicine a calling or a job?

Is it healthy to cut off family and friends due to political differences?

Hope for veterans on this Veterans Day.

“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”

While still following the Goldwater Rule, how can psychiatrists help improve mental health following the election?

It’s Election Day. What lingering traumas are we still processing as a country?

The importance of holidays…

How should we choose our leaders?

This Halloween, we should be scared of sexism.

Should politicians be more interested in climate change to improve US mental health?

The biggest threat of oppression is governmental, whether that is from either political extreme.

Silence can enable oppression.

The US election is less than 2 weeks away…

Light and insight.

Fall can remind us of our own mortality.

Remembering 2 psychiatrists.

Honoring Eliot Sorel, MD.

Honoring Mary V. Seeman, MD.

What day celebrates all human beings?

“If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?”

Any efforts to build lasting peace cannot ignore the massive mental health needs in war-torn regions.

Some studies indicate that individuals who engage in the arts, such as going to the theatre or museums, have a lower risk of dying early.

What can we learn from artists’ memoirs?

This celebration of the creativity of the arts comes at a time when the arts have been cut in school education and in psychiatry.

How can we protect the mental health of our country?