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Published October 10, 2013
President Obama has described members of Congress who insist on fiscal responsibility as having taken “hostages,” “demanding a ransom,” using “extortion,” and threatening to “blow up” the government. Is this the language of a president or a victim?
Published October 05, 2013
Miriam Carey is one of a string of mentally ill people who have been killed or killed others in the recent past.
Published September 17, 2013
Another mass shooting has been perpetrated by another mentally ill man who, every shred of my 20 years of experience as a forensic psychiatrist, tells me was undertreated or improperly treated.
Published September 14, 2013
Jordan Linn Graham, 22, who stands accused of killing her new husband Cody Johnson, 25, by pushing him off a cliff 8 days after their marriage, had reportedly told friends she was having serious second thoughts about whether the two should have married at all.
Published September 10, 2013
Miley Cyrus is just the leading edge of young people desperately searching for icons to keep them from drowning in the fakery of Facebook, iPhones, Twitter, addiction to plastic surgery, the overuse of Prozac and more.
Published September 09, 2013
Ariel Castro’s diagnosis may have been psychopathy, but the real key to understanding him is that he lacked empathy.
Published September 06, 2013
People around the world wonder how Asma al-Assad could post Instagram photographs of her charity work while presumably hearing that her husband’s regime has used chemical gas to asphyxiate children.
Published August 26, 2013
Facebook has been linked to feelings of intense envy, dissatisfaction with life, insomnia, major depression, disrupted friendships and feelings of isolation—especially in young people.
Published August 22, 2013
The mischaracterization of the alleged violence by Chancey Luna, Michael Jones and James Edwards began when one of the trio claimed they had hunted down and shot dead Australian Chris Lane because they were “bored.” But the statement is a smokescreen.
Published August 19, 2013
Two recent studies about Facebook confirm what I have been saying for years: The social media site is psychologically toxic and contributes to actual psychological suffering in users.