Psychology Today Blog
Theory is our basic scientific tool for establishing knowledge. It dictates how we conduct patient care, teaching, and research...
Americans have lived with a mental health crisis for as long as most of us can remember. And for just as long, medicine has been...
A March 17, 2025, article in the New York Times (updated March 24) by Ellen Barry worried me and should be read by all with...
We’re seeing continued advances in making psychiatric diagnoses—and, therefore, improved treatment. A major step in this direction occurred in 2009 when the National Institute of...
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...
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...