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Published February 21, 2012
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in danger of losing the little credibility it still enjoys. The organization is chasing medical insurance company reimbursement money by empowering “working groups” to invent whole new diagnoses by committee
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Published February 13, 2012
With Valentine’s Day at hand, it may seem an odd time to reflect on love gone overboard, into obsession, but to be honest, I was never much for Hallmark cards. Genuine, balanced romance and over-the-top addictive attachment actually have the same chief ingredient
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Published February 09, 2012
Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady's super model she entered the hearts of millions of American men this week and showed she isn’t just a “trophy” wife; she’s a real life partner.
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Published February 09, 2012
With far less fanfare than they deserve, Alkermes Pharmaceuticals is setting out to revolutionize the penal system and help stop prison overcrowding by finally getting at one of the indisputable medical causes of crime (including violent crime): alcohol and drug dependence
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Published February 03, 2012
What are we to make of a cancelled "Fear Factor" episode. We are now in the grips of a panicked flight to fame, which is always a flight away from self and substance.
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Published January 31, 2012
More data is now available—this time from the Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, Texas—suggesting that the “club drug” ketamine can rapidly relieve symptoms of major depression
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Published January 28, 2012
For anyone who thinks that Khloe Khardashian’s revelation is merely fueled by tabloids, that person misses the greater fuel: The certain knowledge that we are connected not just by DNA, but by a Greater plan, and that those who were inscribed in our life stories by a hand unfathomable to us, yet forever palpable to us, will always be important elements of knowing ourselves and grasping our possibilities on this planet.
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Published January 25, 2012
On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster and was suffering with a psychotic mental illness. He was found to be not criminally responsible for his actions due to that illness and confined to a psychiatric hospital. Testimony is now underway in the federal hearing that will establish whether Hinckley should be allowed extended visits to his mother’s home to pave the way for his release to the community
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Published January 20, 2012
Newt Gingrich's second wife Marianne revealed Thursday to ABC News that her former husband wanted an "open marriage." But here's my take -- when three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.
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Published January 19, 2012
I've told you that the real story of Casey Anthony is that of a girl who buries her inner self so deeply (including unspeakably, unthinkably intense feelings of pain and humiliation and rage) that she is, for all intents and purposes, absent from her own existence. Gone. A ghost. A stranger to us, and even to herself.
