Ken Pope shared this article from The British Medical Journal :
Before the covid-19 pandemic, the use of telemedicine (i.e., care delivered via videoconferencing or phone/audio only) had been increasing in mental healthcare but was not prevalent.
The pandemic, with its pressure to enact social distancing when...
Ken Pope brought attention to an article by Thomas G. Gutheil in the Psychiatric Times re: psychiatrists as expert witnesses - The new issue of Psychiatric Times includes a short article: “What Are Best Practices for Psychiatrists When Serving As Expert Witnesses?”
Here are some excerpts: Although a “fact witness”...
"Antisemitism is only coming back because it’s being encouraged to come back.... There has been an invitation to a toxic dance based on antisemitism being part of an ideology of separation and racism and Islamophobia and xenophobia, and it’s come barreling back.... It’s been weaponized and it’s been encouraged more and more."
—Steven Spielberg
Mental health experts have long known that while women have nearly twice the rate of depression diagnoses, men are much more likely to die by suicide, drug overdose and alcohol related deaths — sometimes referred to as deaths of despair. Nearly 80 percent of suicides are among men, with males over age 75...