The word psychiatry carries a history that most of us rarely pause to consider. Its roots trace back to the Medieval Latin psychiatria, which itself is woven from two Greek words: psykhē, meaning mind or soul, and iatreia, meaning healing or care. Built into the very language is an ancient understanding that this field was always meant to tend to the soul. And yet, somewhere along the long arc of scientific progress, we drifted from that. For decades—and in some ways, centuries—we leaned heavily into models that viewed human beings primarily as biological systems, fascinating and intricate, yes, but too often stripped of meaning, history, and inner life. My hope is that we are now in a season of returning. Returning to a recognition that we are far more [...]