Cultural Psychiatry

“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.

The counseling environment is regarded within clinical literature as having an effect on a patient’s sense of well-being.

Just recently, an adolescent patient refused to meet with me individually, saying, “People from your country kill us.” But we survived-as a country and as a family.

The tender moments that call for true empathy are often failed by the demands of the traditional physician-patient relationship.

The challenges of using social media can be as numerous as the benefits.

Sometimes the work we are called to do is not what one traditionally expects. Be receptive to the “reason”-when the Sherpa knocks. More in this Portrait of a Psychiatrist.

To many Lao, the concepts of mental illness and spirituality are tightly intertwined.

Psychiatrists' knowledge about how the mind works may be the “secret ingredient” to help reduce burnout in other physicians.

Our ethical priorities must include the care of our colleagues as well as our patients of backgrounds subject to hate and discrimination.

The controversial question of whether to legalize cannabis has emerged front and center as an important issue that deserves a serious and thoughtful dialogue.

The profound effects of climate change on mental health have become increasingly difficult to ignore. 

Many have said that truth is the first casualty of war. In the war on drugs, truth died before the first shot was fired.

Inquiring about a patient’s favorite movie sometimes proves unexpectedly revealing.

What factors are associated with loss of supported housing for chronically homeless patients with serious mental illnesss? Take the quiz and learn more.

The incidence of suicidal ideation and self-harm behavior increases rapidly during adolescence and represents a period of heightened suicide risk.

Editor's picks of psychiatry stories you may have missed: A medical society raises the alarm, first-ever practice guidelines for men, new discoveries in the immunopathology of schizophrenia, and more are covered in our January roundup.

This is the first article in a series focused on reintroducing the arts into psychiatry.

"The experience of learning to know another’s inner self is one of the most difficult, but most gratifying parts of our clinical work," writes Allan Tasman, MD.

As it turns out, modern psychiatry reflects some of the values and concepts held by early civilizations.