Psychiatric Times, Vol 38, Issue 11

November 3, 2021

Steve Adelman, MD

(Source: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/a-role-for-psychiatry-in-understanding-and-overcoming-vaccine-hesitancy)

COMMENTARY

I hope to inspire you to apply your understanding of the human psyche to the curious matter of people who are contracting a life-threatening infection because they are reluctant to heed the advice of their physicians and the public health community. An exuberance of irrationality, not mental illness, seems to be at play here. Can our training and experience as psychiatrists shed light on a flawed decision-making process that leads some people to throw caution to the wind?

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