The Psychiatric Quarterly is a peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1915 as The State Hospital Quarterly (OCLC 297361895 and OCLC 559984281).

The publication's founding editor-in-chief was Horatio Pollock.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, PubMed, and EMBASE, among others.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 1.327, ranking it 62nd out of 110 journals in the category "Psychiatry".

of the program Greg the Bunny, it is revealed that character Dottie Sunshine is a reader of Psychiatric Quarterly.