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"It was word and note, The wind the wind had meant to be—A little through the lips and throat. The aim was song—the wind could see."

"But where are the songs of praise for church basements? That lower level, that rock bottom room sunken & reverent with flickering lights..."

Have you seen "Dune: Part Two?" H. Steven Moffic, MD, gives his social psychiatric review.

"We were three men alone in a ward room built for fifty, dust film on the floor..."

"Soon the train will stop. The border guard will give me back my passport – but I know we’ll be back again soon."

"As we enter the old hilltown graveyard, stone rows rise toward the church like a long flight of stillness..."

Look for the sunshine in everyday life!

Although some uncertainty is a natural and unavoidable part of life, recent years has seen an level of uncertainty.

"I’m never finished answering to the dead."

Our overlapping cultural differences in politics are beneficial...

"In the corridor, he demands a confession: Who peeled back his bandage? Who let him look?"

In an upcoming Between the Lines program, thought leaders discuss the results from studies by Jain and colleagues published in 2023 that reviewed the self-reported professional, emotional, and interpersonal effects of tardive dyskinesia on both patients and their caregivers.

When you see someone in trouble, what do you do?

"The river is famous to the fish..."

Anti-Semitism: the canary in the coal mine for other discrimination.

"He's dying on dialysis—I’ve known him since my first days as a doctor, and now he wants to quit."

Psychiatry has much more to do to reduce racism at all levels.

Happy to be done with 2023? What is your 2024 New Year's resolution?

"For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."

Ann Childress, MD, the current president of APSARD, invites you to attend this year's conference!

Love over hate is crucial, now more than ever.

In an exclusive interview, APSARD President Elect Greg Mattingly, MD, tells Psychiatric Times readers what they can expect at this year's meeting.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."

Many social psychiatric challenges are worse, a year later...

"Spray the perfume of your smiles on the incision. Inject the song of life into my veins to wake me up. Gently beat the drum so my mind may dance with yours, my doctor, day and night."

"...my eyes searching for the one skater in every crowd who glides graceful as a god, like my father years ago in his black leather racing skates..."

You've heard of social capital and financial capital... but what about psychiatric capital?

Is finding meaning conducive to healing?

"My black cat sprints through the kitchen door, a glassy-eyed cottontail hanging limp from his jaws."

"Walk through the garden's dormant splendor. Say only, thank you."