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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

  • About the Author
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  • Articles
  • Addiction/Substance Abuse
  • Bioethics
  • Book Reviews
  • Medicine and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Organ Policy
  • Public Health
  • Tobacco Harm Reduction
  • Amicus Briefs
  • Appearances
  • Books
  • Podcasts and Talks
  • Testimony and Related Commentary

Book Reviews

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

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

Washington Post, October 6, 2022

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

Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2022

‘Wounding Warriors’ Review: Ready But Not Able

Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2021

Two Heads Are Better Than One

Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2015

It’s Getting Better All the Time. Review of Shermer’s “The Moral Arc”

The Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2015

Descendant of Fear: On Scott Stossel’s My Age of Anxiety

The Millions, March 5, 2014

Where Was I? ‘The Answer to the Riddle Is Me’ and ‘I Forgot to Remember’

New York Times, February 14, 2014

Book Review: ‘American Psychosis’ by E. Fuller Torrey

Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2013

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2012

Ordering Disorder

The New Republic, May 12, 2011

Drugs and Money

The New Republic, October 19, 2010

The Right (and Wrong) Answers

The New Republic, January 13, 2010

Health Gulf: Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

Sally Satel and Howard I. Kushner, Commentary Magazine, May 2007

Mismanaged Care

The New York Times, April 8, 2007

9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks

Psychiatric Services, February 2007

A Better Breed of American

The New York Times, February 26, 2006

‘The Ethical Brain’: Mind Over Gray Matter

The New York Times, June 19, 2005

Are You Normal? Think Again

The New York Times, October 10, 2004

When Shedding Pounds Meant Courting Danger

The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2001

Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
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