Cultural Psychiatry

"If we ignore or do not successfully address these future risks, we may need more than luck to avoid these looming disasters."

Having a significant mental health issue is now the new normal.

From new FDA treatment approvals to choosing the right levels of care in crisis stabilization units, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Who is influencing matters of environment and climate change?

Work with compassion to try to prevent the transmission of intergenerational trauma.

What do our ethnocultural identities mean for each of us and for our patients?

Should we tell the truth?

Art is embracing the world… is psychiatry?

Let’s talk finances…

“It is of the utmost importance to provide culturally competent forensic psychiatric services that are better suited to the needs of the African American community.”

“The contributions of Black psychiatrists are essential for us achieving the work, achieving our goals, and really leaning into what we find to be our ‘why’ for why we do this work.”

How are you celebrating Mardi Gras?

“We are not exempt from these diseases. We have to speak up.”

In honor of Black History Month, Psychiatric Times™ highlights the contributions of Black clinicians to the field of psychiatry, as well as issues that continue to impact this underrepresented community.

How can you better provide care for American Indians and Alaska Natives?

This major medical organization is making an effort towards changing their culture. Here’s why more of us need to emulate these actions.

Can religion provide boundaries that extend beyond those of clinical psychiatry?

All mental health clinicians must now develop skills in cultural competence to avoid perpetuating disparities in health outcomes for BIPOC individuals with serious mental illnesses.

Sociocultural factors have been shown to impact both the presentation and course of schizophrenia/psychosis. Learn more here.

A look at the unique challenges of working with powerful and influential clients and strategies for success.

How the fetishization of Black bodies and the weaponization of European beauty standards are used against Black women in sport.

Psychiatric Times kicked off 2022 by featuring a wide variety of psychiatric issues and current events throughout January.

One resident interviews 2 NYC-based musicians about their experiences during the pandemic.

One doctor introduces the work of philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin and elements of his conceptualization of “experience.”

Does it sometimes take distance to better understand one another?