Insanity: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Insanity: Murder, Madness, and the Law.
Sex Appeal:
The First Principle is “Do No Harm”
An excerpt from Sex Appeal.
The Challenges of Teaching Introductory Psychology Courses
An excerpt from Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
Legal and Illegal Drugs of Abuse:
Both are Hurting Our Country
Authors Eugene M. Rubin MD, PhD and Charles F. Zorumski MD argue that that efforts aimed at prevention and more effective early interventions for addictive disorders could have much greater impact on our country and health care economics than new treatments for the medical problems that result from these addictions.
The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Patient Autonomy
An excerpt from The Virtuous Psychiatrist.
More Than Genes: An Excerpt
An excerpt from More Than Genes by Dan Agin.
How Common Are Psychiatric Disorders?
An excerpt from Demystifying Psychiatry: A Resource For Patients and Families.
Hysteria: A Circus
An excerpt from Hysteria: The Biography.
How We Look At Health Care
A post about health care from author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
Redefining Death — Again
How do we define death?
Coming To Understand Obsession
An excerpt from The Thought That Counts by James Douglas Kant with Martin Franklin, PH.D., and Linda Wasmer Andrews.
Fantasy and Reality: What is the Truth?
An excerpt from How Fantasy Becomes Reality.
Going To Extremes
An excerpt from Going to Extremes.
Tools for Innovation II: Analogy is the Essence of Innovation
How can analogies inspire innovation?
Tools for Innovation I: Normal psychology and economic recovery
How do goals drive behavior?
Meaning and Health
An excerpt from Hope in the Age of Anxiety, looking at the relationship between meaning and health.