This video collection is taking a brief break whereas Dr Moffic is away. For now, benefit from the rerun of this video with up to date commentary.
Final 12 months’s video from Might 1st was truly a rerun from 2023, so now about 2 years outdated. By now, we’ve got time to look again on the concentrate on age and knowledge in our latest presidents of the US.
We all know that previous president Biden dropped out close to the tip of the race to get replaced by Kamala Harris, who misplaced. Regardless of some public presentation considerations, there has not been any clear disclosure of his psychological standing of the time. Only in the near past, he appeared publicly for the primary time for the reason that new administration started.
Since Trump gained the present presidency, there was no dialogue about age that I’ve seen, regardless that President Trump is just 2 years youthful than previous president Biden.
And knowledge? I suppose that’s within the thoughts of the beholder. Actually, we’re going by way of a drastic change in federal insurance policies. Whether or not they end up clever or not, time and resistance will inform. We do know, nevertheless, that psychological problems proceed to rise, with a particular concern for people who have all of a sudden misplaced their jobs.
Age and knowledge is inevitably a priority of anybody who reaches outdated age and continues to observe in medication and psychiatry. We want extra tips on now to evaluate the specified improve in knowledge with what could possibly be misplaced mentally with growing old.
Dr Moffic is an award-winning psychiatrist who specialised within the cultural and moral points of psychiatry and is now in retirement and retirement as a non-public professional bono neighborhood psychiatrist. A prolific author and speaker, he has performed a weekday column titled “Psychiatric Views on the Every 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 acquired 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, Might 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 guide in a 4-volume collection on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and now The Jap Religions, and Spirituality. He serves on the Editorial Board of Psychiatric Occasions.