Cultural Psychiatry

Successful culturally adapted interventions to improve adherence among Latino patients with depression and schizophrenia confirm how important it is to understand a patient’s entire sociocultural environment.

We psychiatrists can't solve the world's political problems, but we can help those who are affected by them. Suggestions here.

In psychiatry, hot debates abound if you just look around-and if this Special Report collection is any indication, the result is a balance of opinion and civility made richer by virtue of opposing views.

The authors discuss some potential complications arising from a constitutional ban on executing persons with mental illness.

Although a majority of states still permit capital punishment, this may not represent the true national mood: many of these states have not had an execution in more than 10 years.

If you haven’t seen the series or heard media coverage about it, the 13 reasons are a series of 13 audiotapes made by the character, Hannah Baker, to be listened to by the 13 people she felt in some way contributed to her decision to kill herself.

Supportive psychotherapy can serve as the first bridge out of social isolation and marginalization and addresses personality issues, such as deficits in character structure and defense mechanisms.

How does a pituitary result in a psychiatric emergency? Read more clues to this clinical puzzle.

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.