Cultural Psychiatry

You would think that psychiatrists are well-versed in religion and spirituality, but the reality is that they are barely touched upon during our training.

Albina Veltman, MD, FRCPC and Tara La Rose, MSW, PhD, RSW, provide Suggestions on how to create an LGBTQ-positive space in health care settings.

Read the Psychiatric Times February 2020 issue cover-to-cover, with a bonus PDF.

Access to care has improved-especially for low-income and vulnerable populations-which has resulted in better health outcomes.

As clinicians, how do we elevate our humanity to connect with the entire patient? How do we expand our knowledge base, move beyond our implicit biases and understand the critical role of culture?

13 psychiatry stories you may have missed: A round-up of the latest issue of Psychiatric Times, all in one place, with a bonus PDF.

Although there is ongoing political crisis in Hong Kong, many people are confident that the crisis will resolve. However, the mental health crisis may last for decades.

It is a new year, an election year, with impeachment looming and the Iranian conflict-funnily enough, this book is not about the President of the United States. It's all about cults.

To improve access to and quality of mental health care for individuals who identify as LGBTQ, it is important for clinicians to become allies to this marginalized community.

The rise of the Internet and smart phones has created a proliferation of “sexting” between adults and, even more concerning, youths.

The author shares conclusions about what prompts some veteran suicides, drawn from published war accounts and memoirs and his own clinical experience.

For your bookshelf: Psychiatric Times’ Editorial Board shares reading recommendations.

In our role as clinicians, we participate in the practice of medicine because there is always more to learn, and more experience to be gained. Such is the case with mindfulness...

“If someone were to write a book about your life, living with your illness, and all you have seen and suffered and survived, what might be a good title for that book?”

Practicing mindfulness has become a foundational treatment in various mental health professions.

In today’s busy world, everyone is stretched thin for time. Information is coming from all directions, and we are expected to respond at a moment’s notice.

Psychiatry plays a central role in exploring and treating the depths of human experience captured by the word “soul.”

Many refugees have been victims of severe violence that has profoundly affected their physical, psychological, and spiritual lives. Take home points here.

With the goal of making psychiatric care more available, accessible, and affordable while maintaining the highest standards...comes the challenge of accomplishing this with limited resources.

Dysdiadochokinesia was a hard word to remember-and an impossible one to forget.

We humans need to believe. We tend to feel better, more grounded, and safer.

Laziness or disease? You decide.

Words have power. These include the power to heal, especially words spoken by physicians, mental healers in particular-psychiatrists.

While conversational agent technology is growing rapidly, the various technologies (chatbots) might not yet be fully equipped to help patients with clinical needs.

This book focuses on Islamophobia’s multifaceted nature, its broad and specific clinical challenges, and its connections with the current political realities of a convulsed world.