“Help! I am being held hostage in a reality show!”

The Suspicion System: How the social world shapes delusions Not so long ago, any decent-sized psychiatric hospital had at least two or thre...

Sex addiction: Science or pop fad?

Thirty-one years ago, when Patrick Carnes walked onto the Phil Donahue television show to promote his new book on sexual compulsivity as a...

Newtown, CT: Latest massacre brings more hand-wringing

Our nation's collective inertia surrounding mass killings is perhaps best illustrated in a YouTube clip splicing together speeches by P...

Amnesty issues scathing report on prolonged solitary confinement

Critique follows lawsuit alleging psychological torture at infamous Pelican Bay   Tucked away in a remote corner of Northern California is o...