Michael Bader, AlterNet. September 5, 2009. Calling people brainwashed, racist or stupid feels good but doesn't really explain the heart of their irrational fear and hatred of government.
Ellen Komp, AlterNet. July 15, 2009. Hollywood shrink characters increasingly take mind-expanding drugs; a reflection of the growing use of psychedelics in medical research.
Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. February 11, 2009. Stress, depression and loneliness permeate daily life in America. Yet psychiatrists try to sell us on the idea that the pain is ours alone.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. November 17, 2008. Two recent studies conducted in two very different settings reveal a disturbing anti-Muslim bias among students.
Maria Luisa Tucker, AlterNet. October 29, 2008. A map illustrating regional personality differences across America is surprisingly similar to the red state/blue state map of the nation.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. August 15, 2008. Depression is rooted in overwhelming emotional pain. Talk therapy is a successful, commonsense antidote, but pushing pills pays more.
Stephen Soldz, Boston Globe. August 12, 2008. Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, Ph.D., Invictus. March 6, 2008. Jeffrey Kaye left the APA over its complicity in torture by the U.S. government. This is his letter of resignation.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 2, 2007. The confession makes a guilty verdict almost automatic. So why are many "suspects" making false confessions?
Deborah Kory, Huffington Post. June 27, 2007. Many psychologists are in denial about their role in society -- their social responsibility to keep the human race from being self-destructive.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. June 6, 2007. The tenet of medicine to do no harm applies to psychologists, yet they are increasingly implicated in abusive interrogations at U.S. military detention facilities like Guantanamo.
