This video collection is taking a brief break whereas Dr Moffic travels. For now, benefit from the rerun of this video with up to date commentary.
Final yr, on Could 22 2024, we had a particular video on “Some Psychiatrists Wish to Give Peace a Likelihood.” It was particular partly as a result of we had a particular visitor participant, Debby Eisendrath.
It stays sadly additionally particular as a result of the most important present wars are, if something, worse and peace is illusive. The struggle within the Mideast continues with no decision in sight. Regardless of a current prisoner alternate and requires negotiations, Russia has escalated its harmful assaults and President Trump claims that Putin has gone “completely loopy.”1 The inner Civil Battle in Sudan has belatedly just lately obtained American heartbreaking protection within the Could 26 New Yorker article “Escape From Khartoum: A household of 9’s determined try to seek out security in Sudan.”2 Arab governmental forces have made the Black Christian minority a particular goal. A UN officer claims: “I’ve by no means been in a rustic the place you discover all the indications on the worst stage. Sudan is in that place—worst meals disaster, worst starvation disaster, worst studying disaster, worst kids’s disaster, worst displacement disaster, worst safety disaster.”2
Though the US doesn’t have troopers on the bottom, on this yr’s Memorial Day on Monday, we might nonetheless mourn the army deaths of all troopers and residents all over the world. We nonetheless shouldn’t have an recognized give attention to peace within the American Psychiatric Affiliation.
The day earlier than, Sunday, was additionally the fifth yr anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which could be deemed a form of inner cultural battle. Sadly, as lined within the current New York Occasions article “Since George Floyd’s Homicide, Police Killings Preserve Rising, Not Falling,”3 not solely are police killings nonetheless rising, however Native Individuals and Black Individuals are clearly on the highest of the checklist of victims. But, range, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) is being dismantled by our federal authorities. Maybe one rationalization for that’s that DEI because it was being advocated was inflicting a backlash push of racism.
Peace remains to be elusive in lots of areas of society, however we’ve to maintain giving it an opportunity in psychiatry.
Dr Moffic is an award-winning psychiatrist who specialised within the cultural and moral facets of psychiatry and is now in retirement and retirement as a personal professional bono group psychiatrist. A prolific author and speaker, he has accomplished 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 Unwell in 1991. He introduced 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 modifying the ultimate e-book 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.
References
1. Maher Okay, Picheta R. Trump says Putin ‘has gone completely loopy’ after main Russian assaults on Ukraine. CNN. Could 26, 2025. Accessed Could 28, 2025. https://version.cnn.com/2025/05/25/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-airstrikes
2. Niarchos N. Escape from Khartoum. New Yorker. Could 19, 2025. Accessed Could 28, 2025. https://www.newyorker.com/journal/2025/05/26/escape-from-khartoum
3. Wealthy S, Arango T, Bogel-Burroughs N. Since George Floyd’s homicide, police killings maintain rising, not falling. New York Occasions. Could 24, 2025. Accessed Could 28, 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/police-killings-george-floyd.html
