Original in Peer-Reviewed Journals

2024

Packer, Sharon: Autism Spectrum Disorder: Two Sides of the Street, Psychiatric Times, November 8, 2024.

Packer, Sharon: Eating Professionals vs. Eating Disorders, Psychiatric Times, October 2, 2024. 2024.

Packer, Sharon: Beth Israel’s Nathan Perlman Place and its Place in History, Psychiatric Times, July 30, 2024.

Packer, Sharon: Hostages and Heroics: Do Hostage Films Help? (Part II), Psychiatric Times, June 11, 2024.

Packer, Sharon: How I Happened upon Hostage Films: Do Hostage Films Help? (Part I), Psychiatric Times, May 20, 2024.

Packer, Sharon: Pushing the Panic Button Hid the Read Risks, Psychiatric Times, Jan 30, 2024.

2023

Packer, Sharon: The Captagon Controversy and Why it Captivates, Psychiatric Times, Dec 26, 2023.

Packer, Sharon: Revising the Ethics of Landmark Psychological Experiments in “American Melancholy” (by Joyce Carol Oates), Psychiatric Times, Nov 8, 2023.

Packer, Sharon: Lessons from a Decades-Old Case of Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Veteran. Psychiatric Times, Jan 12, 2023.

2022

Packer, Sharon: Making Sense of The Sixth Sense—So Many Years Later. Psychiatric Times, Dec 15, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: Celebrating Shabbosgiving. Psychiatric Times, November 18, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: Because the Sun Doesn’t Shine in Soho. Psychiatric Times, August 8, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times. November 14, 2022, Vol 39, Issue 11.

Packer, Sharon: Red, White, Blue, and Black: A Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Vet. Psychiatric Times, October 26, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: A Matter of Life and Death: When Abortion Wars Should Not Be Fought. Psychiatric Times, September 2, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: Because the Sun Doesn’t Shine in Soho. Psychiatric Times, August 8, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: Should a Psychiatrist Say Kaddish for Her Patient? Psychiatric Times, July 11, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: “My Life Today is Wonderful. I Believe that I am Needed.” (Zelensky). Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War. Psychiatric Times, March 17, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: Weeds, Wildflowers & Wordsworth. Psychiatric Times, February 4, 2022.

MD, SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma) [Omar Reda, MD, H. Steven Moffic, MD, Rahn K. Bailey, MD, John R. Peteet, MD, Ahmed Hankir, MD, Rama Rao Gogineni, MD, Sharon Packer, MD, Andy McLean, MD, MPH, Mary V. Seeman, MD, Jack Gorman, MD, Saul Levine, MD, Sigalit Gal, PhD, Narpinder Kaur Malhi]. We Refuse to Hate. Psychiatric Times, January 18, 2022.

2021

Packer, Sharon: Lessons from my Garden about Patient Care. Psychiatric Times, February 2022.

MD, SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma) [Omar Reda, MD, H. Steven Moffic, MD, Rahn K. Bailey, MD, John R. Peteet, MD, Ahmed Hankir, MD, Rama Rao Gogineni, MD, Sharon Packer, MD, Andy McLean, MD, MPH, Mary V. Seeman, MD, Jack Gorman, MD, Saul Levine, MD, Sigalit Gal, PhD, Narpinder Kaur Malhi]. An Interfaith Psychiatrist Prescription for Middle East Peace. Psychiatric Times, May 26, 2021.

Packer, Sharon: The Other Side of the COVID Crisis: The Silent, Socially Phobic Minority. Psychiatric Times, April 6, 2021.

Packer, Sharon: Demons, Dybbuks and Other Psychic Maladies. Psychiatric Times, February 22, 2021.

Packer, Sharon: Never Forget the Fine Print: From Fertility Rites to “Miracle Med.” Psychiatric Times, February 4, 2021.

Packer, Sharon: Skip the Quarantini: Start with Quaran-Tea Time. Psychiatric Times, October 14, 2021.

2020

Packer, Sharon: Of Personas and Perfection—and Physician Suicide. Psychiatric Times, December, 2020. December 7, 2020.

Packer, Sharon: The Joy of Daffodils. Psychiatric Times, September 30, 2020 (podcast).

Packer, Sharon: Sleep Hygiene Tips to Prevent Insomnia. Psychiatric Times, June 2, 2020.

Packer, Sharon: Ditch the Quarantini: Healthy Options for Psychological Well-Being, Psychiatric Times, April 23, 2020.

Packer, Sharon: Tele-Teatime During the Quarantine. Psychiatric Times, April 3, 2020.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Psychiatry and its Discontents by Andrew Scull. Metapsychology Vol. 24, No 25, 2020.

2019

Packer, Sharon et al: APA Toolkit for Treating Jewish-Americans, Division of Diversity & Health Equity, American Psychiatric Association, 2019 ..

2018

Edrei, Shawn and Sharon Packer: Lessons Learned from Mental Health Portrayals in Video Games, Psychiatric Times, February 26, 2018.

2017

Packer, Sharon: Taming Trichotillomania while Weeding the Garden, Psychiatric Times, July 13, 2017.

Packer, Sharon: The Wandering Woman: A Pituitary Tumor, Psychiatric Times, May 17, 2017

2016

Packer, Sharon: “A Penny for Your Thoughts”—or What Would Rod Sterling Say About E-prescribing?  Psychiatric Times. October 24,

2016.

Packer, Sharon: Soul and Soma: Let's Drink (Tea) to That!), Psychiatric Times. July 28, 2016.

2015

Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First. The Mind-Body Divide: As Seen Through a Jaundiced Eye. Psychiatric Times. November 2, 2015

Packer, Sharon. Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Case Study: Mysterious Pain in Older Veteran. Psychiatric Times. May 15, Packer, Sharon. Using Psychodrama to teach CBT. Psychiatric Times. April 29, 2015.

2014

Packer, Sharon: “Luke Cage and Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments,” History of Medicine. December 2014.

Packer, Sharon: The Secret Psychiatric Origins of Rocket Raccoon. Psychiatric Times, October 2014

Packer, Sharon: Rainy Day, Sunflower, at 9/11 Memorial (photojournalism/essay), Psychiatric Times, September 2014.

Packer, Sharon: Of Ham and Harm. Psychiatric Times, September 10, 2014

Packer, Sharon: Comics & Medicine: A Conference . . . or a Movement? Psychiatric Times, August 2014.

Packer, Sharon: Ocular Side Effects of Psychotropics: Special Considerations. Psychiatric Times, June 2014

Packer, Sharon: Special Considerations for Treating Patients with Vision Loss. Psychiatric Times. May 2, 2014.

Packer, Sharon: Treating Patients with Visual Loss: How Our Workshop Evolved. Psychiatric Times. May 02, 2014.

Packer, Sharon: Daffodils as Antidepressants (What Wordsworth Knew). Psychiatric Times. (Online Article) April 16, 2014

Packer, Sharon: Altered Mental State: The Clue in the Blue Bottle. Psychiatric Times. (Online Article) February 24, 2014.

Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First: Spotting Medical Mimics: More than Meets the Eye. Psychiatric Times. January 2014.

2013

Packer, Sharon: More Than Meets the Eye: Spotting Medical Mimics. Psychiatric Times. (Online Article), December 2, 2013

Packer, Sharon: 5 Top Events in Psychiatry 2013. Psychiatric Times. December 2013.

Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First: Country Calm Before the Storm. Psychiatric Times. October 16, 2013

Packer, Sharon: How Clean Underwear Saved a Life. Psychiatric Times. September 05, 2013.
Packer, Sharon: Iron Man 3: Reconciling Psychiatry’s Warring Camps. Psychiatric Times, July 25, 2013.

Packer, Sharon: Raphael Osheroff, MD: A Belated Obituary. Psychiatric Times, June 28, 2013.

Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times. June 20, 2013

Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Therapy Helps Visually Impaired Patients with Depression, Clinical Psychiatry News, June 11, 2013.

Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Using CBT to decipher dreams - therapy helps visually impaired patient with depression. Clinical Psychiatry News, September 12, 2013.

2012

Packer, Sharon: “Drugs and the Summer of Love: A Summer Fling, not a Lasting Romance” in Pop Culture Universe. Eternal Questions Series [ABC-Clio, Fall, 2012].

Packer, Sharon: “Drugs and the Summer of Love: A Summer Fling, not a Lasting Romance” in Pop Culture Universe, High School Edition. ABC-Clio’s Eternal Questions Series, Fall, 2012.

Packer, Sharon: “6 Recommendations for Residents.” Psychiatric Times, October 2012.

2011

Packer, Sharon: “Thor: From Myth to Marvel Comics to Movies to Medical Commentary.” HCPLive. August 26, 2011.

Packer, Sharon: “Recalling Total Recall.”MDng Magazine, Psychiatry/Neurology Edition. February 2011.

2007

Packer, Sharon and Stephen Berman: Linezolid in the Induction of Serotonin Syndrome [Letter to Editor], American Journal of Psychiatry, 164: 346-347, 2007.

2000

Packer, Sharon: “A Lily for Libby” (Illuminated Obituary about Libby Zion’s death). Southern Medical Journal, 2000

Packer, Sharon: “Ancient Myth and Modern Pharmacology,” Hellenic Medical Society Bulletin, Spring 2000.

1998

Packer, Sharon: Ergotism and Lethal Catatonia, American Journal of Psychiatry [Letter to Editor], 146: 10, 1360, 1998.

Packer, Sharon: Jewish Mystical Movements and the European Ergot Epidemics, Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 3, 1998.

Packer, Sharon and Warren Dotz: Epidemic Ergotism, St. Anthony's Fire, and Jewish Mysticism, Dermatopathology Practical Concepts 4:259-67; 1998.

1997

Packer, Sharon: Commentary on Kennedy's Geriatrics and Religious Observance [Letter to the Editor]: Gerontology, Spring 1997.