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The perils of pandemic psychopharmacology
Author(s) -
Price Lawrence H.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30743
Subject(s) - loneliness , pandemic , ethnic group , mental health , existentialism , covid-19 , indigenous , economic shortage , psychiatry , toll , medicine , psychology , criminology , political science , law , government (linguistics) , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , biology
Throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic we've heard story after story in the lay media about the terrible toll this worldwide catastrophe has exacted on our collective mental health. Some of these stories have focused on specific age groups (children, teens, the elderly), others on specific ethnic groups (indigenous peoples, minorities), still others on impacts for just folks in general (loneliness, existential despair). There's been no shortage of reporting on specific professions, either. Near the very beginning of the pandemic last year, the resident‐selected topic of one of my monthly seminars with our Brown psychiatry residents was “The COVID‐19 pandemic and psychiatry — Impacts on healthcare providers.”