Psychiatric Views on the Daily News

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?

Psychiatrists and mental health clinicians: a social determinant of health.

Saturday was the International Day of Peace.

Here’s what Dr Moffic plans to cover in this week…

Are we reliving the evolution of managed care from the 1980s and 1990s?

If psychiatrists of different religions and spiritual beliefs coupled with psychological insights cannot overcome conflict and achieve peace, who can?

The Boomerang Effect: when an individual’s attempt to persuade someone else has the opposite effect, coming back to haunt the messenger, like a boomerang thrown correctly comes back toward the thrower.

We cannot learn from history unless we talk about it…

The season of the cat…

If a debate is only about who wins and who loses, about half of the country will seem to have won and half seem to have lost.

The significance of numbers…

How can you best ethically treat patients?