In this article, we will cover some very tentative predictions about the future of some social psychiatric challenges, or what I call social psychopathologies. I would not be surprised that someday—if our social psychiatric problems continue to escalate—we could have a psychiatrist as US Surgeon General. Prediction 7: More Psychiatrist EulogiesWhether any of my previous social psychiatric predictions come to pass in any way is uncertain and even unlikely, but this is a certainty. However, our common home base of Baylor and our identification as social psychiatrists provided good communication and understanding. That relationship proved dividends when we became presidents of the American Association for Social Psychiatry (AASP) around the new millennium.

Source: New York Times May 20, 2023 01:35 UTC