Anxiety Disorders

BLOG: A study recently published in JAMA found that as our profession has been working tirelessly to curtail prescriptions for opioids we are prescribing more and more benzodiazepines.

BLOG: These studies were the latest findings showing that psychedelics, erroneously dismissed as mere intoxicants and swept up in the hysteria of the Nixon-era drug wars, could prove to be as important to psychiatry as penicillin was to infectious disease.

Psychedelic compounds are powerful, and they have great potential to help patients with intractable conditions. Yet any compound with that kind of power also has the potential to harm, and that harm should not be trivialized.

Perhaps patients would benefit if they had some concrete saying, a mantra as it were, to remind themselves outside the therapy room of key lessons.

An inside look on how stigma may reinforce denial in ill doctors, part 2.

BLOG: Burnout is commonly defined as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of feelings of personal accomplishment.

An inside look on how stigma may reinforce denial in ill doctors.

Ode to Dr. Quinn Leslie who has paved the path to accepting non-perfectionism.

Tips to assist a self-referred physician who comes to us should he/she be accused of unacceptable, abusive, oppositional, or bullying behavior in the workplace.

Knowledge of CBT has entered the popular media, so people do not expect to spend years and years “on the couch.” However, the patient's life story still plays a vital role in therapy.