Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: December 15, 2023
Our enthusiasm for widespread psychiatric interventions should be tempered by rigorous research and a nuanced understanding of human psychology and...
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: September 7, 2023
The rising fascination with repeated suicide risk assessment is misguided in its current form.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: July 10, 2023
The fear of death can be therapeutic and motivating, but it can also be pathological and lead to a lack of motivation or drive.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: May 16, 2023
The modern psychiatrist should not forget fundamental truths of behavior and humanity that were once the staple of psychiatry.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: April 4, 2023
If even enlightened institutions fail at a nonjudgmental approach toward their colleagues, what hope is there for the rest of us clinicians?
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: January 4, 2023
Movies, by design, are particularly adept at encapsulating the narrative of someone’s life in a way that psychiatry can learn from.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: October 20, 2022
While the concept of making all patients comfortable may feel abstract or trivial to some, the consequences can be very real.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: September 15, 2022
A psychiatrist who understands and appreciates postmodernism can show a patient why at some level we cannot refute all delusions.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: June 13, 2022
Similarly to polypharmacy, “polydiagnosing” has negative effects.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: March 30, 2022
Psychiatry staying silent on the matter of public figures leaves a void filled by other, arguably less qualified, individuals.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: January 7, 2022
The dopamine receptors of the brain get their fair share amid the didactics we receive in residency. From discussions of antipsychotic...
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: November 16, 2021
Regardless of whether psychiatry attempts to stay out of such affairs publicly, our field remains intimately involved in the process itself.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: October 19, 2021
Should we discharge the intoxicated patient as soon as they are safe to walk out or make every effort possible to find long-term solutions?
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: May 12, 2021
Criteria used to diagnose antisocial personality disorder are ripe for subjectivity by experienced or biased forensic psychiatry evaluators.
Opinion
- Author:
- Nicolas Badre, MD
Publish date: February 25, 2021
“Imagine spending an entire year laboring through the heavy task of lifting patients to prone them in a position that may save their lives,” said D...
