Columbia University Psychiatry

This special series of commentaries and conversations around mental health is part of a collaboration between The Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and Medscape. With rates of psychiatric illness on the rise, we hope to provide practicing clinicians with updates, opinions and analysis on a range of clinically and culturally relevant topics in psychiatry.

• Is Ketamine Living Up to the Promise for Depression?   Columbia psychiatrist Lloyd Sederer talks with his colleague J. John Mann, a leading ketamine researcher and clinician, about the promise surrounding this treatment and the questions that remain.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, October 26, 2020
• COVID-19, Police Reform, and Fixing a Broken Mental Health System   Lloyd Sederer talks with political scientist Norm Ornstein about how politics has degraded our response to COVID-19 and serious mental illness, as well as a proven approach to police reform.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, July 16, 2020
• NY Psych Residents Describe 'Tsunami' of COVID-19 Patients   Dr Jeffrey Lieberman speaks with three Columbia residents about the lessons imparted by training during a pandemic.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, June 26, 2020
• First- Episode Psychosis in the Time of COVID-19 Two psychiatrists recommend recovery-oriented specialty care for patients who've developed psychosis during the pandemic.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, June 12, 2020
• The Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis   Melissa Arbuckle talks with Jeffrey Lieberman about the search for diagnostic tests for psychiatric diagnoses, and why he is optimistic about the strides we've made and those to come.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, June 4, 2020
• What Past Disasters Tell Us About COVID-19 and Substance Abuse As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, psychiatrist Lloyd Sederer worries for a country already facing rising rates of substance abuse.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, May 18, 2020
• Crisis Counseling, Not Therapy, Is What's Needed in COVID-19 Psychiatrist Lloyd Sederer was on the frontline of mental health care following the 9/11 attacks. Now he argues for crisis counseling as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, April 8, 2020
• From Alcohol to Opioids, Can Doctors Successfully Treat Addiction? Drug overdoses, especially those involving opioid analgesics, are on the rise. Psychiatrist Lloyd Sederer talks to Medscape about which addiction treatment strategies work.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, February 12, 2020
• Psychiatry Is No Longer the 'Runt of the Litter'   With all of the recent advances, it's a 'watershed moment' for the field of psychiatry, says Dr Jeffrey Lieberman.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, December 18, 2019
• The 'Checkered' History of Psychiatry's Views on Homosexuality   Drs Sederer and Drescher discuss how culture shaped views on homosexuality, and further evidence that there is no 'gay gene.'
  Columbia University Psychiatry, December 3, 2019
• A Brief History of American Psychiatry   Psychiatrists Drew Ramsey and John Oldham walk through the rich history of psychiatric care in America.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, November 7, 2019
• Short of Prescribing Salmon, Docs Use Diet to Boost Mental Health   Drs Drew Ramsey and Deborah Cabaniss discuss the influence of diet on mental health, and how discussions about nutrition can strengthen the doctor-patient relationship.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, September 23, 2019

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