Opinion
The cult of the suicide risk assessment
The rising fascination with repeated suicide risk assessment is misguided in its current form.
Opinion
Death anxiety in psychiatry and society: Facing our fears and embracing life
The fear of death can be therapeutic and motivating, but it can also be pathological and lead to a lack of motivation or drive.
Opinion
Overcoming death anxiety: Understanding our lives and legacies
The modern psychiatrist should not forget fundamental truths of behavior and humanity that were once the staple of psychiatry.
Opinion
The sacrifice of orthodoxy: Maintaining collegiality in psychiatry
If even enlightened institutions fail at a nonjudgmental approach toward their colleagues, what hope is there for the rest of us clinicians?
Opinion
The anecdote as antidote: Psychiatric paradigms in Disney films
Movies, by design, are particularly adept at encapsulating the narrative of someone’s life in a way that psychiatry can learn from.
Opinion
How to remain apolitical with patients
While the concept of making all patients comfortable may feel abstract or trivial to some, the consequences can be very real.
Opinion
Schizophrenia and postmodernism: A philosophical exercise in treatment
A psychiatrist who understands and appreciates postmodernism can show a patient why at some level we cannot refute all delusions.
Opinion
A prescription for de-diagnosing
Similarly to polypharmacy, “polydiagnosing” has negative effects.
Opinion
Will we ever outgrow the Goldwater rule?
Psychiatry staying silent on the matter of public figures leaves a void filled by other, arguably less qualified, individuals.
Opinion
Should psychiatry categorize
‘substance-induced paraphilia?’
The dopamine receptors of the brain get their fair share amid the didactics we receive in residency. From discussions of antipsychotics and...
Opinion
Britney Spears – Reflections on conservatorship
Regardless of whether psychiatry attempts to stay out of such affairs publicly, our field remains intimately involved in the process itself.
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Substance use or substance use disorder: A question of judgment
Should we discharge the intoxicated patient as soon as they are safe to walk out or make every effort possible to find long-term solutions?
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Is empathy the limit to sociopathy?
Criteria used to diagnose antisocial personality disorder are ripe for subjectivity by experienced or biased forensic psychiatry evaluators.
Opinion
Heroes: Nurses’ sacrifice in the age of COVID-19
“Imagine spending an entire year laboring through the heavy task of lifting patients to prone them in a position that may save their lives,” said...
Opinion
Polydoctoring: The case against fragmented psychiatric care
My main concern with the fragmentation of modern psychiatry stems from my belief that the most important facet of our work is our relationship...