Tomorrow’s Psychiatrists, Tomorrow’s Leaders
It was Match Day, 1977. I had just earned a spot in a psychiatry residency and could not have been happier. So when a distinguished professor (from another specialty) approached me, I smiled and...
View ArticleOnce a Psychiatrist, Always a Psychiatrist?
When I retired from clinical work,, I knew I would continue being a psychiatrist in some way. Like writing blogs. Like presenting on eco-psychiatry. Like continuing to serve on boards and think tanks....
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Balancing Your Professional and Personal Life (Video)
Career fulfillment, free time, maximum revenue—a perfect triad for every clinician—but one too seldom realized. In fact, physician burnout is a very real—and common—phenomenon. In the first known...
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Social Media Tools for Mental Health Professionals (Video)
Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are turning to social media to help them build, manage, market, and diversify their practices. The challenge is in maintaining patient privacy and...
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2012 Physicians Compensation Survey: How Psychiatrists Are Faring
How Are Psychiatrists Faring? These charts are culled from the annual Physicians Compensation Survey, which is conducted by the editorial staff of Physicians Practice—a sister publication of...
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Networking, Professionalism, and the Internet
The digital revolution has transformed society and forever altered the practice of psychiatry. Technology permeates our daily lives and poses new social and professional challenges (Table 1).1 The...
View ArticleSymposium on Psychology and National Security at the Italian Embassy
The Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC recently hosted the first of 2 workshops on Leaders and Terrorists: Psychological Perspectives on National Security. The well-attended symposium drew upon the...
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A Primer on Ethics for Psychiatrists
Trying to fit everything you need to know about professional ethics in one article is a nearly impossible task. But somebody’s got to do it—or at least attempt it! For this article, I’ve drawn heavily...
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An Update on Maintenance of Certification
By now you’ve probably heard about the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s (ABPN) new Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program for psychiatrists. If you haven’t taken some action dictated by...
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How to Grow a Consulting Specialty
I used to serve everybody. In my private practice I was a “generalist.” I didn’t want to limit myself. Then one day, I was sitting down with a free SCORE consultant and he asked me, “Who do you help?”...
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Keeping Medical Records Safe
How secure are your patients’ data? Storing patient health records electronically may be an efficient solution to the antiquated paper filing system of the past, but despite the many upside perks...
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Four Indicators That You’ll Succeed in Private Pay Therapy Practice
Wondering if you will succeed in private pay therapy practice? It’s the right thing to wonder about. Starting your own therapy practice is a considerable business venture. Given the time, effort and...
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Creating a Forensic Subspecialty
There are many reasons to add a forensic subspecialty in your practice. Maybe you are becoming burned out by the demands of HIPAA and managed care; who wouldn’t be? Perhaps you have excellent...
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When My Psychotic Patient Asked Me for a Date
One day in the course of treating a young woman with schizophrenia, the patient—whom I’ll call “Laura”—asked me if I would like to take her out on a date. For a good half-minute, I was stunned. I had...
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Why Quantifying Treatment Outcomes Matters
The term “critical juncture” has long been used to describe the point in time in which monumental events, ideas, or decisions chart a new course, which is significantly different than the one...
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Collapsing into Sexuality: The Dynamics of Sexual Boundary Transgressions by...
Andrea Celenza’s bibliography is all about sex. Mostly sex between therapists and their clients. Curiously, for therapists, whose theoretical legacy is strewn with references to the sexual engine room...
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Tips to Improve Your Productivity
Busy mental health professionals can often be time-challenged, between seeing patients, keeping up with billing demands, and trying to market their practice on social media. We are always complaining...
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Tired of Billing Hassles? Consider a Billing Service
Here’s an option if you feel you are spending too much time dealing with insurance-related paperwork and follow up phone calls: Hire a billing service. Even if you don’t deal with insurance plans at...
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Psychiatry is Alive and… Well, It’s Complicated
Is psychiatry as we know it “dead”? [1] Not on your life! But if you believe some of the doleful pronouncements in the blogosphere, you might as well be hanging crepe for our profession. Yes, we need...
View ArticleOur New Psychology, Psychiatry & Mental Health Professional Jobs Database
We know that many mental health professionals are often searching for their next gig. So who better to help you along with that search than Psych Central Professional? Whether you’re a psychologist,...
View ArticlePeer Specialists as Educators for Recovery-Based Systems Transformation
The Project GREAT Experience: The past 3 decades have witnessed an ongoing transformation of mental health care systems around the world, beginning in the United States and followed by New...
View ArticleMental Notes: Letter to a Young Psychiatrist
It’s easy to give advice, hard to receive it, harder still to live it. The privilege of youth is action; of age, experience. Nature resists combining both. Experience is a...
View ArticleA “Real” Psychiatrist
As the end of my intern year approached, one of my chief residents told me that second year is the year “you really become a psychiatrist.” In our program, it...
View ArticleShould Physicians Be Experts on Cost?
It was during my third year of medical school when I was first identified as a medical expert. A college friend asked my opinion about his father’s medical condition and...
View ArticleWhy Should You Care About Psychopharmacology as a Non-Medical Therapist?
In the United States, the majority of mental health services are provided by non-medical therapists. Likewise, the majority of prescriptions for psychotropic medications are written by family practice...
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