Psychology Today Blog

Hope for Transforming U.S. Mental Health Care

June 7, 2025

The National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) 2025 Vital Directions for Health and Health Care explores radical change,1 especially what we must do at the political...

Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? – Updated Seven Years Later

March 24, 2025

My first blog post in Psychology Today, Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?, occurred seven years ago about this time of the year. It marked a...

Why Medicine Ignores the Public’s Mental Health Needs

December 16, 2024

Following historian and philosopher Hanna Arendt, there is the belief that the public should assert their needs and interests in scientific endeavors.1 But, before the...

Medically Assisted Death in Patients With a Mental Illness

September 25, 2024

Three recent articles in the British Journal of Psychiatry1-3 discuss whether the criteria for medical assistance in dying for physical diseases (MAiD-PD) should differ from...

How Artificial Intelligence Could Enhance Healthcare

June 29, 2024

The book ChatGPT, M.D. by Dr. Robert Pearl (and ChatGPT) might intrigue you in two ways.1 First, it presents an optimistic, potentially revolutionary role for...

Is Psychiatry Waking Up to the Truth About Mental Illness?

April 13, 2024

What an exciting turn: In a recent Viewpoint published in JAMA Psychiatry, thought leader Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., of Virginia Commonwealth University, urged the field...