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ArticlePsychiatric research and clinical practice2025

The Future of the Psychiatrist.

James B Potash, Alex McClanahan, Jay Davidson, William Butler, Nathan Carroll, Anne Ruble, Mary Yaden, Darlene King, John Torous, Peter P Zandi and 5 more

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Article in Psychiatric research and clinical practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Are Psychiatry Faculty Prepared to Guide AI Use? A National Survey.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2026
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  3. Digital Psychiatry with Chatbot: Recent Advances and Limitations.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

James B PotashDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USA.
Alex McClanahanDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.
Jay DavidsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Washington Seattle Washington USA.
William ButlerDepartment of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USA.
Nathan CarrollJersey Shore University Medical Center Hackensack New Jersey USA.
Anne RubleDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USA.
Mary YadenDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USA.
Darlene KingDepartment of Psychiatry University of Texas, Southwestern School of Medicine Dallas Texas USA.
John TorousDepartment of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USA.
Peter P ZandiDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USA.
Katherine G KennedyDepartment of Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine New Haven Connecticut USA.
Thomas E SmithDepartment of Psychiatry Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons New York New York USA.
Arpan WaghrayWell Being Trust Behavioral Medicine at Providence Seattle Washington USA.
Robert TrestmanDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Roanoke Virginia USA.
Marketa WillsAmerican Psychiatric Association Washington District of Columbia USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: The American Psychiatric Association (APA) issued a 2023 report on the future of psychiatry, focusing on how the organization should position itself in relation to coming developments over the next 10 years. Here, we follow up with a discussion of how the psychiatrist's role needs to evolve to adapt to the changes ahead. Methods: We drew on senior experts and junior trainees within the APA's Council on Healthcare Systems and Financing, along with additional content experts, to choose areas of focus and discuss their interrelationships. Literature review focused on publications with implications of these areas for future training and practice. Results: We are only ∼5% of the mental health work force, and we have unique strengths, including training providing us the ability to discern the varied factors contributing to distress, and direct and apply interventions across all available modalities. Psychiatrists make best use of our capabilities when we lead the process of comprehensively formulating patients' problems and generating a multi-faceted treatment approach. We have chosen six areas where we envision new developments impacting how psychiatrists will practice and residents should train: digital data and precision medicine, measurement-based care, artificial intelligence (AI), psychotherapy, integrated care, and care for the seriously mentally ill. We provide suggestions regarding next steps that will allow us to make the best use of our training and expand access to high quality diagnosis and care. Conclusions and Relevance to Clinical Practice: We will need to handle the most challenging cases: the most psychiatrically complex, medically complex, and treatment-resistant. We must preserve our skill, unique among physicians, in psychotherapeutic approaches, even as we manage psychiatric illness. We must also adapt and become more tech-savvy, as digital data, mobile and computer-based treatments, electronic medical records, and AI algorithms take on increasing prominence in our field.

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PMCPMC12178214

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