Cultural Psychiatry

A recent experience on street rounds offered a moment that brought this psychiatrist back to one of the main reasons she chose psychiatry as a profession.

Poor Sigmund. Mrs. Freud gave him the slip.

Strong evidence supports sound arguments on each side of 3 debates covered here-so get in there and fight nice.

In psychiatry, as in every field of medicine, there is still gender disparity in salary and promotion.

Overbooking airline seats and bumping travelers is legal but the practice backfired on a recent United flight. Is civility dead?

Apparently therapists can fake their own online reviews these days. So much for the ethical ethicist.

Access to illicit drugs is now as easy as a few swipes on a smartphone. Here's a primer for clinicians who aren't well acquainted with this trend and who aren’t familiar with the many substances themselves.

The authors outline the ingredients for the transformation of mental health care in America.

Creativity should not be seen as “optional” in psychiatry. Rather, it helps us to approach clinical problems in new ways.

There are no simple solutions to the plight of the terminally ill patient. With commentary by Cynthia Geppert, MD.

Culture is far from having outlived its usefulness for psychiatry.

Westworld-the HBO pitiless purgatory where everything goes worng!

In a tale of two cases, the author comes to realize he is but one agent of change in the lives of his patients.

A 10-1 federal appeals court decision allows Florida doctors to gun ownership with their patients; a psychiatrist on the front lines in war-torn areas; a new rule that allows for 24-hour shifts plus an additional 4 hours for residents-these and other recent stories are covered in this roundup.

"If I only had a heart."

A rare glimpse into the bipolar life, where behavioral markers often come in 3’s.

On the risk of accepting the practice of psychiatric diagnosis from afar.

Now is the time to be vigilant and active in the advocacy efforts to fund all the terrific new opportunities the 21st Century Cures Act offers. Here are 9 aspects of the law that focus on psychiatric practice and treatment of those with serious mental illnesses.

Will the new Administration disrupt mental health coverage in this country?

Editors' picks for recent stories in mental health, including Executive orders and "Islamophobia,” effect of parental obesity on childhood development, personality, and global mental health.

Given that “specific phobias” are a diagnostic category in DSM-5, is "Islamophobia" a diagnosable disorder?

In some segments of the evolving health care system, primary health care teams with psychiatry at their core are becoming a reality. Here are 6 ways psychiatrists add value to primary care health teams.

How would you handle information about a patient obtained from an Internet search? Take the quiz.

President Barack Obama’s last bill signed into law; Carrie Fisher’s legacy gives voice to mental illness; psychological outcomes of women who had abortions against those denied abortion; and other psychiatry news.

Where would we be without mother birds?

As our understanding of the brain and new technologies have rapidly evolved, such an extensive text on psychiatric ethics is clearly timely.

The most popular searches in Psychiatric Times during 2016. See what your colleagues are searching for and reading!

Here’s a very unscientific survey of this year’s most meaningful issues is psychiatry. Quite a year.

This psychiatry roundup includes important or noteworthy stories in the news, including the Surgeon General's initiative against addiction, the implementation of DSM's Continuous Improvement Model, art and psychiatry, pediatric opioid poisoning, and more.

Here is a year's worth of CMEs you can take right now.