Special Reports

What are the key diagnostic differences between schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder?

Schizophrenia is one of the most recognized yet least understood chronic brain disorders.

What are some of the most important contemporary issues in schizophrenia and the ways research can inform exemplary clinical practice?

"The rationale for these policies is on a need-to-know basis, and we clinicians evidently do not need to know."

Having an appropriate presence on social media can help your career.

Here are 3 ways you can help prevent and overcome difficult situations with patients.

Collecting fees is essential, but it can be uncomfortable and even difficult. What strategies can you use to ease the burden?

“Clinicians must explain the problem and the treatment in a way that is jargon-free, engages the patient (and) instills hope.”

How can psychiatrists collaborate within the treatment team to help patients on the path to ongoing recovery?

"20% to 30% of patients develop a persistent, hard-to-treat illness."

"Despite many unanswered questions, Daniel M’Naghten is forever remembered as the man who set a lasting legal precedent."

The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law hosted its first in-person meeting in October 2022. Check out these highlights.

"The psychiatrist may be obligated to protect the fetus or warn authorities of the patient’s intent."

Revisiting the Special Reports featured in Psychiatric Times throughout 2022.

"Dementia is a mental health condition that can make or break families. Remember that behind the difficult behavior is your loved one."

What's the latest in dementia?

"To be sure, we are still in the nascent stages of developing treatments. However, our armamentarium is steadily growing."

Do you know these terms?

Psychiatrists are in a unique position to empower their patients by recognizing and addressing key issues surrounding gender and sexuality.

"Our own implicit biases come into play at times whether we like it or not, especially when it comes to frequently controversial medications."

“Both doctors and patients know best.”

"Among adults living in the United States, 38% to 40% use complementary and alternative medicine therapies, yet only 42% have told their primary physician that they do so."

"Rooted in ancient meditative traditions, mind-body practices can offer simple and scalable tools of self-regulation that incorporate controlled paced breathing, which is therapeutic in alleviating symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain disorders."

Herbal medicines have been used to treat mental health disorders since ancient times, and continue to be useful today.

This Special Report contains concise reviews of selected CAM modalities and what these modalities can offer patients with a variety of mental health issues.

Physicians are not immune to the gravitational pull toward extramarital affairs, particularly with the most alluring mistress: Medicine.

Here are some ethical ways to help our colleagues and ourselves.