Celebrating 60 Years of Psych News
Happy new year—and happy 60th birthday to Psychiatric News! Technically the big day is still nine months off—Psych News launched as the “official newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association” in September 1965—but we’re planning to celebrate throughout 2025 with a new look, new contributors, and new content models.
New look: We’re redesigning our monthly print publication along with our portfolio of newsletters to better reflect our evolving media platform—sharp, stylish, and professional. Our plan is to debut these redesigns during APA’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles in May—so make your travel plans now.
New contributors: As Editor in Chief Adrian Preda, M.D., explains in his column (“Editor’s Desk,”), we’re launching five new sections beginning with this issue, each one focused on a key area, as Dr. Preda notes, “where psychiatry and mental health are growing and adapting.” We couldn’t be more excited by the lineup of profession-leading experts who will be serving as editors of these sections:
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AI & Digital Health—Jyotishman Pathak, Ph.D., professor of population sciences, medical informatics, and health care policy and research in psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
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C-L Psychiatry—James Alan Bourgeois, O.D., M.D., vice chair of hospital psychiatry services and professor of clinical psychiatry, University of California, Davis
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Integrated Psychiatry—Anna Ratzliff, M.D., Ph.D., professor and vice chair of faculty development in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the AIMS (Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions) Center, University of Washington
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Psychotherapy—David Mintz, M.D., director of psychiatric education and associate director of training, Austen Riggs Center
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Voices in Advocacy & Policy—Rimal Bera, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California, Irvine; and Katherine Kennedy, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, and immediate past chair of APA’s Council on Advocacy and Government Relations
We’re doing an alternating rollout, with Voices in Advocacy & Policy, AI & Digital Health, and C-L Psychiatry debuting in this issue and Integrated Psychiatry and Psychotherapy debuting next month, in our February issue. Then each section will appear in every other issue.
New content models: Also launching this month—“Psychiatric News Special Report,” our first-ever podcast, produced as part of APA’s “Medical Mind” program. Each episode will feature Dr. Preda interviewing the author (or authors) of that month’s Special Report, beginning with Marta Mudd, M.D., Ph.D., who wrote this issue’s “Using Nutrition as a Therapeutic Modality”. Look for new episodes of the podcast here.
In other Psych News news, we’re also starting a blog that will feature regular contributions from the members of our Editorial Advisory Board. This is a way for us to provide responsive, less-categorizable content about the culture of psychiatry and mental health care from some of its most accomplished thought leaders. We’re still working out the details, so check back here for updates.
And, finally, returning to our 60th anniversary, Psych News is partnering with the APA Foundation’s Melvin Sabshin, M.D., Library and Archives on an exhibit—both online and in person at APA headquarters in Washington, D.C.—that looks at our first six decades. That will go live in September, timed to coincide with the exact date of the anniversary.
It’s going to be a busy and exciting year, and we hope you’ll join us for all of it. Thanks for reading. ■
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Christopher Durso is executive editor of Psychiatric News.
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Published online: 19 December 2024
Published in print: January 1, 2025 – January 31, 2025
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