Psychiatrist and Author of Thinking Again, Encountering Treatment Resistance, Rational Psychopharmacology & Rollercoaster
Reducing Cognitive Errors in Psychiatric Practice
Typical medical training calls for the learning, storing, and recalling of large amounts of information, but few medical professionals receive instruction on how to recognize, anticipate, and avoid innate mechanisms that can easily lead to cognitive error. This book provides insight and direction into reducing the cognitive errors routinely made by mental health and other medical providers.
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1/15/26
New Tools for Reducing Medical Error
Early assessments of medical errors frequently focused on deficiencies in procedures and systems, yet research shows that 75% of those errors are individual and cognitive. And although typical medical training calls for the learning, storing, and recalling of large amounts of information, few medical professionals receive instruction on how to recognize, anticipate, and avoid innate mechanisms that can easily lead to cognitive error. I’m happy to report that American Psychiatric Publishing,...
January 15, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: Addressing Cognitive Error in Psychiatric Practice
At a time when psychiatric practice is becoming increasingly complex, the role of individual cognitive mistakes in causing medical errors remains underexamined. Understanding how we make them can go a long way toward elevating patient care and reducing treatment failure.
