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Sally Satel, M.D.

Author of PC, M.D. How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine

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Articles

What kids need — and adults need to know — to combat the youth mental health crisis

Naomi Schaefer Riley and Sally Satel, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2025

This Program Is a Lifeline for the Severely Mentally Ill

City Journal, June 3, 2025

Medical School Has Gotten Too Political

Sally Satel and Thomas S. Huddle, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2, 2025

Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline

Commentray, June 2025

‘What Is It Like to Be an Addict?’ Review: The Danger of a Safe Feeling

Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2025

I Had Two Kidney Transplants. I Want Donors to Get Paid.

The Free Press, April 28, 2025

The Indoctrinologist Is In

National Affairs, Spring 2025

Medical Schools’ Botched Pass-Fail Experiment

City Journal, March 5, 2025

American Psychological Association Slammed for ‘Virulent’ Jew Hate

The Free Press, February 25, 2025

The Public Health Triumph No One’s Talking About

National Review, February 20, 2025

Therapists Are Still Behaving Like Activists

Persuasion, February 13, 2025

The Woke Couch

Liberties Journal, Volume 5, Number 2

RFK Jr. Says Drug Addicts Need Tough Love. Is He Right? (Full article)

The Free Press, January 1, 2025

RFK Jr. Says Drug Addicts Need Tough Love. Is He Right?

The Free Press, January 1, 2025

Expanding Reciprocity

City Journal, December 2, 2024

The Health Equity Agenda is a Bad Prescription

Sensible Medicine, November 26, 2024

We Need to Try a Tax Credit to Help Fix the Kidney Shortage

Sensible Medicine, October 16, 2024

Inside the Campaign to Blacklist ‘Zionist’ Therapists

The Free Press, August 12, 2024

Doctors Should Leave Their Politics at Home

Washington Monthly, July 17, 2024

Medscape Gets Smoked

City Journal, May 2, 2024

‘Sociopath’ and ‘Borderline’ Review: Understanding Personality Disorders

Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2024

Mass General Brigham Puts Antiracism Ahead of Their Patients’ Health

The Free Press, April 7, 2024

A Textbook Case of Social Justice Medicine Run Amok

Washington Monthly, February 13, 2024

In Medicine, Center Excellence Not Identity

Unsafe Science, February 6, 2024

Addiction Treatment Can Work Even When It’s Not Voluntary

Sally Satel and Kevin Sabet, Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2024

Report From a Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Future of Living Kidney Donor Transplantation

Sally Satel et al., Sage Journals, November 16, 2023

“Defining Deviancy Down” at 30: Reflections on Crime, Welfare, and Mental Health

Glenn Loury, Sally Satel, Kay Hymowitz, Steven Teles, and Neil Gross, Glenn Loury, November 5, 2023

Physicians, Heal Thyselves

Commentary, October 26, 2023

Social Justice in Psychotherapy and Beyond

Richard E. Redding and Sally Satel, SpringerLink, September 14, 2023

His Michael: Review of ‘The Best Minds’ by Jonathan Rosen

Commentary, July/August 2023

Trauma Therapy Has Captured America—and Prince Harry, Too

The Free Press, May 2, 2023

​​Focus on the Research, Not the Researcher

Persuasion, May 1, 2023

‘Good Girls’ Review: When the Body Is a Battleground

Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2023

Opioids and Appalachia—An Origin Story

National Affairs, Spring 2023

The Flawed Case for Executing the Mentally Ill

National Review, March 12, 2023

Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace

Sensible Medicine, March 3, 2023

Are Florida Universities Training Therapists to Be Political Activists?

Sally Satel and Richard Redding, National Review, February 25, 2023

Social-justice shrinks: how identity politics infected therapy

The Spectator, February 20, 2023

Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace

Sensible Medicine, February 14, 2023

“The Moral Sense” and the Human Brain

Pepperdine School of Public Policy, January 27, 2023

We Have to Make Organ Donors Whole

Washington Monthly, January 17, 2023

The stories we tell about mental illness—others’ and our own

Washington Post, October 6, 2022

America Should Allow Death Row Organ Donation

Persuasion, August 1, 2022

Give Donors a Tax Credit: Ideas to Increase Transplant Organ Donation

Sally Satel and Alan D. Viard, Regulation, Summer 2022

We Need Both High- and Low-Tech Approaches to the Shortage of Organs for Transplantation

By Henry I. Miller & Sally Satel, RealClearHealth, June 16, 2022

The ‘Open Secret’ on Getting a Safe Abortion Before Roe v. Wade

The New York Times, June 4, 2022

The Limits of the DSM-5

National Review, April 28, 2022

How Rochelle Walensky Can Improve the CDC’s Pain Guidelines

By Sally Satel & Kate M. Nicholson, Washington Monthly, March 24, 2022

‘Healing’ Review: More Help for Mental Health, Please

Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2022

The Next Pig Thing in Medicine (Unabridged Version)

Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2022

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
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