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May 10th 2024
H. Steven Moffic, MD, received the Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award at the 2024 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Here’s what he spoke about during his acceptance.
May 8th 2024
H. Steven Moffic, MD: winner of the Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting.
May 7th 2024
Psychiatrists, by maintaining active social media pages, can promote positivity and establish themselves.
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?
A Social Psychopathologies Classification: Social Psychiatric Prediction #5
Should we medicalize social psychopathologies?
The United States Psychiatric Association: Social Psychiatric Prediction #4
Should the American Psychiatric Association change its name?
A Psychiatrist US Surgeon General: Social Psychiatric Prediction #3
Should a psychiatrist be the “Nation’s Doctor”?
Psychedelic Daily “Vitamins”: Social Psychiatric Prediction #2
The second coming of psychedelics… what will the outcome be?
Lessons Learned from a Resident-Driven Mental Health Policy Elective Experience
One psychiatry resident describes his experience creating a mental health policy and advocacy elective.
Artificial Psychiatry: Social Psychiatric Prediction #1
AI and psychiatry: where are we headed?
Social Psychiatric Predictions About the Future: A Series
We may need the luck of the Irish to avoid future disasters…
Hinduism and Psychiatry
Religious holidays seem to have psychological meaning in terms of processing internal and external oppression.
Mental Health and the Global Race to Resilience
There is no shortage of evidence for the elevated and sustained psychological trauma, mental illness, distress, and anxiety about climate change.
The Truth Is on Trial in Society, Psychiatry, and Religion
Should we tell the truth?
The Mental Health Benefits of Travel
Do you need a vacation?
Psychiatry and Hate: Projected, Scapegoated, and Realistic Hatreds
What are the 3 different types of hatred?
The Anniversary of Russian Bullying
Today is the 1-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine…
Presidents’ Day and Social Psychiatric Leadership in the American Psychiatric Association
American Presidents and APA Presidents celebrate today…
A Black Quarterback Leads His Team to an Optimistic Victory in the Super Bowl
Superbowl Sunday: what are the mental health implications?
A Tale of 3 Retirements: Football Star Tom Brady, Black Psychiatrist James Amos, and Me
"Can you imagine how satisfying this will be when you're retired?"
The Week in Review: January 30-February 3
From addressing physician burnout to helping your patients incorporate friendships into their lives, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: What’s in a Name?
Names can hurt, and they can lead to broken bones.
2022 Sigourney Award Winner: Getting Psychoanalysis into the World
Check out this winner of the 2022 Sigourney Award!
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
Could police brutality be part of a larger legacy of American trauma transmission?
The 8 Minute Phone Call: Finding Time for Friendship
Are your patients ready to honor the time commitment for friendship? It can be as easy as 8 minutes.
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: The Importance of Supervision in the Helping Professions
Should we try to be the keepers of our brothers and sisters?
There is a World of Social Psychiatric Challenges and You can Help Solve Them!
How can you get involved and be more knowledgeable about social psychiatry?
Watching for Words as Weapons on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Be on the lookout for anti-Semitic messages.
Will This Be the Year of More Return to Our Technological Past?
Back to the future… or blast to the past?
A Lapse of Cultural Psychiatrist Humility in the Monterey Mass Shooting
This morning, we mourn the victims of the Monterey Park mass shooting.
A Model of Meeting the Social Psychiatric Challenges of Leadership in Society
“And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do justice…”
The Emotional Baggage Follow Up Series: The Pursuit of Happiness Continues
What factors contribute to happiness?
Shining Light Series: Martin Luther King Jr and Mental Health
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."
False Flag Conspiracy Theories: Psyche, Society, and the Internet
About half of the US population believes in at least 1 conspiracy theory. How can we stick to the facts?
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May 10th 2024
H. Steven Moffic, MD, received the Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award at the 2024 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Here’s what he spoke about during his acceptance.
May 8th 2024
H. Steven Moffic, MD: winner of the Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting.
May 7th 2024
Psychiatrists, by maintaining active social media pages, can promote positivity and establish themselves.
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?
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A Social Psychopathologies Classification: Social Psychiatric Prediction #5
Should we medicalize social psychopathologies?
The United States Psychiatric Association: Social Psychiatric Prediction #4
Should the American Psychiatric Association change its name?
A Psychiatrist US Surgeon General: Social Psychiatric Prediction #3
Should a psychiatrist be the “Nation’s Doctor”?
Psychedelic Daily “Vitamins”: Social Psychiatric Prediction #2
The second coming of psychedelics… what will the outcome be?
Lessons Learned from a Resident-Driven Mental Health Policy Elective Experience
One psychiatry resident describes his experience creating a mental health policy and advocacy elective.
Artificial Psychiatry: Social Psychiatric Prediction #1
AI and psychiatry: where are we headed?
Social Psychiatric Predictions About the Future: A Series
We may need the luck of the Irish to avoid future disasters…
Hinduism and Psychiatry
Religious holidays seem to have psychological meaning in terms of processing internal and external oppression.
Mental Health and the Global Race to Resilience
There is no shortage of evidence for the elevated and sustained psychological trauma, mental illness, distress, and anxiety about climate change.
The Truth Is on Trial in Society, Psychiatry, and Religion
Should we tell the truth?
The Mental Health Benefits of Travel
Do you need a vacation?
Psychiatry and Hate: Projected, Scapegoated, and Realistic Hatreds
What are the 3 different types of hatred?
The Anniversary of Russian Bullying
Today is the 1-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine…
Presidents’ Day and Social Psychiatric Leadership in the American Psychiatric Association
American Presidents and APA Presidents celebrate today…
A Black Quarterback Leads His Team to an Optimistic Victory in the Super Bowl
Superbowl Sunday: what are the mental health implications?
A Tale of 3 Retirements: Football Star Tom Brady, Black Psychiatrist James Amos, and Me
"Can you imagine how satisfying this will be when you're retired?"
The Week in Review: January 30-February 3
From addressing physician burnout to helping your patients incorporate friendships into their lives, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: What’s in a Name?
Names can hurt, and they can lead to broken bones.
2022 Sigourney Award Winner: Getting Psychoanalysis into the World
Check out this winner of the 2022 Sigourney Award!
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
Could police brutality be part of a larger legacy of American trauma transmission?
The 8 Minute Phone Call: Finding Time for Friendship
Are your patients ready to honor the time commitment for friendship? It can be as easy as 8 minutes.
Psychiatric Lessons from the Memphis Scorpions: The Importance of Supervision in the Helping Professions
Should we try to be the keepers of our brothers and sisters?
There is a World of Social Psychiatric Challenges and You can Help Solve Them!
How can you get involved and be more knowledgeable about social psychiatry?
Watching for Words as Weapons on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Be on the lookout for anti-Semitic messages.
Will This Be the Year of More Return to Our Technological Past?
Back to the future… or blast to the past?
A Lapse of Cultural Psychiatrist Humility in the Monterey Mass Shooting
This morning, we mourn the victims of the Monterey Park mass shooting.
A Model of Meeting the Social Psychiatric Challenges of Leadership in Society
“And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do justice…”
The Emotional Baggage Follow Up Series: The Pursuit of Happiness Continues
What factors contribute to happiness?
Shining Light Series: Martin Luther King Jr and Mental Health
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."
False Flag Conspiracy Theories: Psyche, Society, and the Internet
About half of the US population believes in at least 1 conspiracy theory. How can we stick to the facts?