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  • Electronic cigarettes seem to work, psychologically and physically

    Published January 30, 2013

    Since many of my patients have reported using electronic cigarettes to successfully stop smoking, I now recommend the devices to anyone who has tried to quit smoking cold turkey and failed. And I think it is time that other doctors do, too

  • American Psychiatric Association poised to declare Internet a drug

    Published January 23, 2013

    The next edition of psychiatry's diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V, will include a listing for Internet-Use Disorder as a condition worth studying

  • Does Manti Te'o suffer from the 'delusional disease'?

    Published January 18, 2013

    Dr. Keith discusses Manti Te'o and 'The Delusional Disease'

  • Obama has set his sights on gun control, but has he forgotten about mental health?

    Published January 17, 2013

    President Barack Obama’s gun control measures miss the entire issue underlying the tragedies in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., and the shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Ariz.

  • How to find the truth in Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah

    Published January 15, 2013

    There is, in fact, a way to know whether Armstrong is finally telling the real and complete truth about his use of drugs.  He would have to admit it, first of all.  But, then, he would have to tell us why.  

  • The psychological and public health benefits of gun ownership

    Published January 15, 2013

    A disarmed population is, by definition, a population that has completely ceded the power to defend its homes against local, state or federal authorities. 

  • Oxygen Network: Stop destroying kids' real lives

    Published January 09, 2013

    Oxygen is planning to air a one-hour special (likely the prelude to an ongoing reality show) called "All My Babies' Mamas" that revolves around Shawty Lo, a rapper, and the 10 unwed mothers who gave birth to his 11 children.

  • We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists

    Published January 08, 2013

    I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.

  • The 'danger zone' of New Year's resolutions

    Published January 08, 2013

    More than a week after New Year’s Eve, we are entering the danger zone when millions of people who resolved to quit smoking, or start working out, or begin dieting or keep their houses neat, start lapsing into old habits. Here, a simple way to avoid falling into that trap

  • Could therapists serve prison time for patients' crimes?

    Published December 31, 2012

    If psychiatrists and the American Psychiatric Association (as well as psychologists and other mental health professionals) don’t work in earnest, and lobby hard for real measures to create a mental health care system that actually safeguards the public from dangerous individuals, they may find themselves looking at jail time for the violent acts of their patients