This presentation was last reviewed on February 25, 2026, and broadcast live online on April 21, 2021, from 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM ET. 

Many therapists encounter patients who appear engaged and active, yet somehow nothing happens. The material seems coherent and unobjectionable, yet there is a lurking sense of emptiness. Over time, this pleasantness curdles into monotony, and monotony into dread. This case presentation follows a treatment in which monotony functioned as both communication and defense, and in which tolerating and working through it revealed the patient’s rich and vulnerable inner life. Drawing on Bion, Freud, Steiner, and Carpy, attendees will gain tools to recognize the less-discussed thin-skinned narcissism, use countertransference as clinical data, and start thinking about how to create the conditions in which genuine therapeutic contact becomes possible.

Suicide is a public health crisis and the leading cause of psychiatry-related death. However, clinicians have limited resources when assessing and treating a patient with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The presentation will discuss recent advances in the assessment and treatment of suicide risk. Key questions include: Who can be enrolled into research safely and ethically? How can we design clinical trials for the evaluation of rapid changes in suicide risk? What should we target to reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors? Why do our treatments work?

This presentation was last reviewed on March 6, 2026, and broadcast live online on October 28, 2020, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET. 

This presentation was last reviewed on January 7, 2026, and broadcast live online on March 23, 2022, from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET.

The intersection of creativity and psychiatry is long-standing and is certainly notable regarding poets and their work. There are a number of major writers who have documented their own experiences of mental illness and trauma through their writing and there has been growing interest and research into the role writing can play in healing and emotional regulation. There has been some exploration of the impact writing has on individuals, both patients and physicians, but writing poetry in collaboration can further decrease the feelings of isolation, foster communication, and create a sustaining and nurturing sense of community within groups, whether those are groups of patients, trainees, or clinical colleagues. This lecture will share lived experience of a poet-psychiatrist and education around poetic forms and their potential for personal and professional application.

This talk will review how AI-based tools are bringing foundational knowledge in psychiatry into question. It will demonstrate how this is playing out most prominently in the domain of aging and dementia care, and how the same tools are also facilitating new paradigms for diagnosis, interventions and care models.

Individuals with ASD and IDD experience high psychiatric and medical comorbidities and significant disparities in access to care, making them particularly vulnerable to ethical missteps such as diagnostic overshadowing, premature assumptions about capacity and treatment, and overuse of restrictive interventions. These challenges persist in part due to limited clinician training in applying medical ethics specifically to neurodevelopmental populations, as well as unexamined cognitive biases that influence decision-making under time pressure. This lecture addresses that gap by providing a practical framework grounded in the four principles of medical ethics, along with structured strategies for bias recognition, and least-restrictive care planning. Participants will leave with concrete tools to slow down clinical reasoning, reduce vulnerability, and deliver more equitable and ethically driven psychiatric care.

This presentation was originally reviewed on February 9, 2026, and live streamed online on February 11, 2026, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET.

This presentation was originally reviewed on December 8, 2025 and live streamed online on December 10, 2025, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET.