Pharmacogenomic Testing in Psychiatry: Ready for Primetime?
GAP ARTICLE (FEBRUARY 2020) The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Written by: The Committee on Psychopharmacology (Gopalkumar Rakesh, MD,* Calvin R. Sumner, MD,† Jeanne Leventhal Alexander, MD, ABPN, FRCPC, FAPA, FACPsych,‡ Lawrence S. Gross, MD,§ Janet Pine, MD,§ Andrew Slaby, MD,|| Amir Garakani, MD,}# and David Baron, MSEd, DO**)
Religion and Psychiatry in the Age of Neuroscience
THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE (January 2020) - In recent decades, an evolving conversation among religion, psychiatry, and neuroscience has been taking place, transforming how we conceptualize religion and how that conceptualization affects its relation to psychiatry. In this article, we review several dimensions of the dialogue, beginning with its history and the phenomenology of religious experience. We then turn to neuroscientific studies to see how they explain religious experience, and we follow that with two related areas: the benefits of religious beliefs and practices, and the evolutionary foundation of those benefits.
ARTICLE (January 2020)
The Opioid Epidemic and Psychiatry:The Time for Action Is Now
Mary F. Brunette, M.D., David W. Oslin, M.D., Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., David A. Adler, M.D., Jeffrey Berlant, M.D., Ph.D., Matthew Erlich, M.D., Michael B. First, M.D., Beth Goldman, M.D., M.P.H., Bruce Levine, M.D., Samuel Siris, M.D., Helena Winston, M.D., M.Phil. (Committee on Psychopathology)
Psychiatry Online (September 2019)
Adaptation in Delivering Integrated Care: The TensionBetween Care and Evidence-Based Practice
Written by David Oslin, M.D., Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., David A. Adler, M.D., Helena Winston, M.D., M.Sc., Matthew D. Erlich, M.D., Bruce Levine, M.D., Jeffrey Berlant, M.D., Ph.D., Beth Goldman, M.D., M.P.H., Michael B. First, M.D., Samuel G. Siris, M.D. (Committee on Psychopathology)
Psychiatry Online (September 2018)
Sharing Patient Cases: Balancing Confidentiality and Educational Needs
Written by Theodore Fallon, Jr, MD, MPH (Professionalism & Ethics Committee)
Psychiatric Times Article (2018)
Can Religion Protect Against Suicide?
Written by Michael A. Norko, MD, MAR,*† David Freeman, MD,‡ James Phillips, MD,* William Hunter, MD,§ Richard Lewis, MD,* and Ramaswamy Viswanathan, MD, DMSc|| of the Psychiatry and Religion Committee
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (January 2017)
If It Were Physical Pain, It Would Be Called Torture: A Story of Two Young Men
A collection of two separate articles portraying how the seriously mentally ill have been systematically stripped of their human rights.
ARTICLE (March 2015)
Being with the Patient: The “Nature of Clinical Evidence,” Revisited
Presented at Meeting of American Society of Adolescent Psychiatry (ASAP) and International Society of Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology (ISAPP)
PRESENTATION (March 28, 2015)
Sexual Differentiation of Childhood Play: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective
This article discusses additional aspects of the relationship between sexually differentiated childhood play, particularly RTP, and gender differences in psychosexual development and functioning. These topics and other aspects of the sexual differentiation of behavior have been under-emphasized in psychoanalytic thought.
ARTICLE (December 24, 2013)
Guns, Violence, and Mental Health: Did We Close the State Mental Hospitals Prematurely?
After decades of increased gun violence and decreased mental health resources, the question proposed whether or not state mental hospitals should remain open.
Psychiatric Times (June 2013)
Psychiatrists’ Knowledge of Their Patients’ Job Functioning
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ARTICLE (April 2013) - A letter to the editor outlining the results from an internet survey conducted by the GAP. The survey had a low response rate - however, the article described how mental health clinicians may know less about how to assess work functioning and employment status in the lives of their patients. The author encourages clinicians to become more knowledgeable and urged mental health professionals to receive more training on this topic. More than 23 million working-age Americans have chronic health and mental health problems that diminish their ability to work.
Public Psychiatric Hospitals
A report provided by the Committee on Hospitals summarizing the questionnaire responses received from American psychiatrists on public psychiatric hospitals.
Criminal Responsibility and Psychiatric Expert Testimony
Written by the Committee on Psychiatry and Law
Control and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Mental Health
A report formulated by the Committee on Psychopathology