This video sequence is taking a brief break whereas Dr Moffic travels. For now, benefit from the rerun of this video with up to date commentary.
For the second yr in a row, we’re revisiting a video on “Bystanding and Upstanding in Psychiatry.” No marvel that I picked “Upstander” because the psychiatric phrase of 2025. However being an efficient upstander is stuffed with challenges. There’s the danger of revenge from the opposition. There’s the query of what’s going to be efficient. There’s the problem of sustaining a brand new group of colleagues dedicated to public psychological well being. Every of us has to resolve what we’re enthusiastic about altering and what feels secure sufficient to do.
Dr Moffic is an award-winning psychiatrist who specialised within the cultural and moral elements of psychiatry and is now in retirement and retirement as a personal professional bono group psychiatrist. A prolific author and speaker, he has carried out a weekday column titled “Psychiatric Views on the Day by day Information” and a weekly video, “Psychiatry & Society,” for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic emerged. He was chosen to obtain the 2024 Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award from the American Affiliation for Social Psychiatry. Beforehand, he obtained the Administrative Award in 2016 from the American Psychiatric Affiliation, the one-time designation of being a Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Speaker of the Meeting of the APA in 2002, and the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the Nationwide Alliance for the Mentally Sick in 1991. He offered the third Rabbi Jeffrey B. Stiffman lecture at Congregation Shaare Emeth in St. Louis on Sunday, Could 19, 2024. He’s an advocate and activist for psychological well being points associated to local weather instability, doctor burnout, and xenophobia. He’s now enhancing the ultimate ebook in a 4-volume sequence on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and now The Japanese Religions, and Spirituality. He serves on the Editorial Board of Psychiatric Instances.