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Magazine Article - Open Book

July 1, 2010

The Myth of Overmedication

Correcting Stereotypes About Kids' Mental Heath

Diane Cole

Magazine Article - Open Book

May 1, 2010

Psychiatric Imperialism

DSM goes global

Diane Cole

Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters. A withering indictment of America's role in spreading our own concepts of mental illness around the world. Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

March 1, 2010

Glorious Food

Ambivalence and Guilt Take Up a Lot of Space at Today's Dinner Tables

Diane Cole

Never before has the simple act of eating been so fraught with ethical, spiritual, and psychological issues. Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

January 1, 2010

The Age of the Über–Parent

Can science really help us raise better adjusted kids?

Richard Handler

Can science really help us raise better-adjusted kids? Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

November 1, 2009

How's God Doing?

Despite today's headlines, much better than you think

Richard Handler

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, a new book argues that God, or at least our concept of deity, is getting more compassionate and inclusive. Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

September 24, 2009

Has Therapy Gone PC?

Some Distinguished Psychologists Critique the Field

Richard Handler

Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm Edited by Rogers Wright and Nicholas Cummings. Routledge. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-415-95086-4 Nobody wants to... Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

September 1, 2009

Bookmark

The Evolutionary Value of Art

Richard Handler

A new book argues that storytelling, the foundation of most psychotherapy, is an evolutionary adaptation that vastly expanded the range of human possibility. Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

July 1, 2009

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Is psychiatry going backward?

Richard Handler

In his broadside against modern psychiatry, a historian claims that the entire profession has been undermined by the blind pursuit pf profit, bureaucratic regulation, political infighting, and shoddy research. Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

May 5, 2009

Bookmarks

The Triumphs and Limits of Psychotherapy

Richard Handler

American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States Jonathan Engel Gotham Books. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-592-4038-06 Jonathan Engel begins his history of therapy... Read More

Magazine Article - Open Book

May 1, 2009

The Art of the Practical

The Triumphs and Limits of Psychotherapy

Richard Handler

From Freud to Zoloft, the story of therapy in this country has been the triumph of pragmatism over esoteric theory. Read More