Commentary
Shrink Rap News
Is corporate telepsychiatry the solution to access to care problems?
Something has to account for the fact that care is more affordable through startups than through traditional psychiatric practices, says Dr. Dinah...
Families in Psychiatry
Me, my spouse, and COVID
Even though households with children reported more conflict during the pandemic than before it began, they also reported more cohesion.
Opinion
EHR: A progress report
EHRs will inevitably be a part of most of our lives. And for those who take the time to do it right, it will ultimately be an improvement.
Commentary
Quiet quitting: Are physicians dying inside bit by bit? Or setting healthy boundaries?
Quiet quitters believe that it is possible to have good boundaries and yet remain productive, engaged, and active within the workplace.
Commentary
Depression as a terminal illness
Suicide is often viewed as a symptom of severe depression, but what if we considered death as part of the disease process itself?
Hard Talk
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.
From the Editor
From neuroplasticity to psychoplasticity: Psilocybin may reverse personality disorders and political fanaticism
One of psychiatry’s long-standing dogmas is that personality disorders are enduring, unchangeable, and not amenable to treatment with potent...
Commentary
More on neurotransmitters
The series “Neurotransmitterbased diagnosis and treatment: A hypothesis” (Part 1: Current Psychiatry, May 2022, p. 30-36, doi:10.12788/cp.0242;...
Commentary
Proposal for a new diagnosis: Acute anxiety disorder
Mr. F, age 42, says he has always been a very anxious person and has chronically found his worrying to negatively affect his life.
For Residents
Neurosurgical treatment of OCD: Patient selection, safety, and access
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is typically a severe, chronic illness in which patients have recurrent, unwanted thoughts, urges, and...
Feature
How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...