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April 30th 2024
It’s time to center homelessness in the conversation around mental health.
April 29th 2024
How do the current student protests compare with that of the late 60s?
April 17th 2024
Explore the devastating impact of substance abuse, human trafficking, and conflict on individuals and communities.
April 10th 2024
An analysis of polarization: “To be aware of the abyss of polarization is already to be forewarned and forearmed.”
April 8th 2024
The suicide rate in the United States recently reached its highest peak since 1941.
The Many Meanings of Solar Eclipses
Are you watching the solar eclipse?
“The Web of Meaning”: Family Therapy is Social Psychiatry’s Therapeutic Branch
What are the links between social psychiatry and the family therapy movement?
Loneliness, Dr Ruth, and the US Surgeon General a Year Later
How can we fix our loneliness problem?
Four Years of COVID and the Weekly Video Series
It has been 4 years of COVID-19. Are we in a better spot now than we were then?
Social Psychiatry Comes of Age
Welcome to the new column, “Second Thoughts… About Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy.”
My Social Psychiatric Predictions One Year Later
“A narrow way through”: can H. Steven Moffic, MD, predict the future of psychiatry?
From the Pages of Psychiatric Times: February 2024
The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the February 2024 issue of Psychiatric Times.
Social Psychoexemplaries: The Other Side of Social Psychopathologies
What is positive social psychiatry?
Dopamine Detoxification for Problematic Gaming
Problematic gaming is challenging to treat. Here's how you can get started.
The Chiefs and Love Win the Super Bowl
Love: a distraction or inspiration?
The Goldwater Rule: Preparing for the Upcoming Election
A comment on the Goldwater Rule from our readers…
The Super Bowl and Winning Organization Strategies
What makes a winning team, in football and in health care?
The Case for a Social Classification of Social Psychopathologies
We need improved recognition of the social determinants of mental health.
January: “National Poverty in America Awareness Month”
Did you know January is Poverty Awareness Month?
What Is a Humanitarian Psychiatrist?
What does it mean to be humanitarian?
Resolution #5: A Tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, I Have a Social Psychiatry Dream
A dream for social psychiatry, in the vein of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Department of Psychiatry’s Embrace of Philosophy: From Amnesia at the Margins Toward Parrhesia at the Center
Welcome to the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry.
Community Healing During the Mideast War and Other Social Conflicts
As the trauma and grief of the Mideast war hit his own community , a psychiatrist helps promote healing.
Calendar Psychiatry and a Hoped for International Day of Thanksgiving
How do specific calendar days impact mental health?
We Answer the Call for a Joint Jewish and Muslim Psychiatrist Statement
Respect is the single most important factor that helps to sustain long term relationships.
Psychiatric Boarding in Emergency Departments
What does it mean to receive crisis care in the typical emergency department? Psychiatrists have a powerful role in reducing boarding.
Don’t! A Prescription for Reducing Counterproductive Revenge
A list of what not to do about conflicts.
Testing the Principles of Transformational Community: What We Can Learn From the Burning Man Mudpocalypse About a Civilization Under Climate Duress
The 2023 Burning Man gave us a glimpse into the power of community under climate duress.
Psychiatry in the Courtroom: Climate Disruption and ACEs
Hallelujah! A Series on Awe
Do you have any recent experiences of awe?
Travel Log Redux: How Can We Assess the Success of Climate Activism?
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Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health: A Guide for Clinicians Based on Youth Voices
Check out this guide for supporting youth in their social media use.
Nasal Spray Demonstrates Ability to Reduce Social Anxiety Disorder Symptoms
Fasedienol meets trial endpoints by reducing anxiety during public speaking simulations in patients with social anxiety disorder.
Psychiatry on TikTok: Providing Education to Teens in an Ethical Manner
84% of 500 TikToks offered inaccurate or potentially damaging medical advice. How can you address TikTok as a mental health professional?
Gun Control. Serbia Just Did It. Why Can’t We?
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April 30th 2024
It’s time to center homelessness in the conversation around mental health.
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April 17th 2024
Explore the devastating impact of substance abuse, human trafficking, and conflict on individuals and communities.
April 10th 2024
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