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1 week ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWS“Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge . . . Then we can come back and help others.” – Catherine, or a Master Spirit, in Many Lives Many Masters1Last Friday, Friday the 13th, lived up to its Western superstitiousness reputation for the world and myself. Historically, its meaning seems associated with the death of Jesus.
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1 week ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWSLast year I wrote a column on June 20, 2024, titled “Say Hey, Kids: It’s Juneteenth Day!” Since 2021, June 19 has been the federally recognized holiday Juneteenth National Independence Day, though celebrated for many years before that in many localities.
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1 week ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
Author(s):H. Steven Moffic, MD, reflects on mental health challenges amid political turmoil, emphasizing the need for effective advocacy and support in the community. This video series is taking a short break while Dr Moffic travels. For now, enjoy the rerun of this video with updated commentary.
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2 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWSParts 1 and 2 of the columns considering redemption in psychiatry have found that redemption can seem to apply beyond its usual well-known references in most all religions. A broader definition refers to compensating for some sort of failure or falling short, and can therefore be easily applied to general society, and perhaps to psychiatry, too. Just take this major news item recently.
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2 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWSThe first column I wrote on “Redemption in Psychiatry” last Friday ended with my request:“So, is redemption of some relevance to psychiatry?”The request was not to demand that attention be paid to redemption in psychiatry, but to consider its relevance, and a good many did so. Here are some representative anonymous samples beyond what was covered in the original column.
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2 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
This video series is taking a short break while Dr Moffic travels. For now, enjoy the rerun of this video with updated commentary. About this time last year, this video focused on the 80th anniversary of D-Day and how much that contributed to the end of World War II. Yet, more prevention of wars would reduce the extraordinary loss of lives and major trauma. Now, still, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza continue, though both have looked not only to have been preventable, but ended.
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2 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWSAs we covered in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting in downtown Los Angeles video and a follow-up column “Rally for Mental Health: Boldly Going Where Psychiatry Has Never Gone Before,” our nation’s public mental health seems increasingly at risk. The rally put together by some of us psychiatrists was unprecedented.
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3 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWSYou may have noticed that over the last month or so, as I have been asking “Whither Psychiatry?” in these turbulent and uncertain times, it has led to covering what might be viewed as fringe areas of psychiatry. The columns have discussed enhanced psychiatry, peace psychiatry, and humanitarianism in psychiatry. There is another that has come to mind, but I’ve hesitated to cover it, that being redemption in psychiatry.
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3 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWS“We can literally invent humans 2.0.” - Aron D’Souza, Enhanced Games President“This kind of reminds me of the Roman circus.” - Charles Yesalis, ScD, professor emeritus of health policy, Penn StateYou may be wondering about the title of today’s column, especially because there is no field of enhancement psychiatry.
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3 weeks ago | 
psychiatrictimes.com | H. Steven Moffic
PSYCHIATRY & SOCIETYSomething familiar, something peculiar. Something for everyone, a comedy tonight. Something appealing, something appalling. Something for everyone, a comedy tonight. Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns. Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns. Goodness and badness, man in his madness. This time it all turns out just right. Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight. The newest book from Bandy X.
