Medicine and Psychiatry
Steroid medication gave me disturbing side effects. They changed my life in bad — and good — ways.
Is a Mental-Health Crisis Looming?
Give Hospital Workers Hazard Pay
Right to try, right to buy, right to test
The Ritalin Generation
Getting Meds: Why does government make it so hard?
Precision Psychiatry: Hype or Promise?
Exploring the mind’s power over the body
Neurocentrism: Implications for Psychotherapy Practice and Research
Friday Feedback: Solutions for the Psych Bed Shortage?
Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
Neuro-backlash? What backlash?
50 Shades of Gray Matter
Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
Can brain scans explain crime?
Who’s Brainwashed? Progress and hype in the world of neuroscience. Interview with Sally Satel
Don’t Read Too Much Into Brain Scans
Why the Fuss Over the D.S.M.-5?
Primed for Controversy
After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
Prescriptions for Psychiatric Trouble
Prescriptions for Psychiatric Trouble, Unabridged Version
To Fight Stigmas, Start With Treatment
Dopamine Made Me Do It
It’s All in Your Head
Sociopolitical Aspects of Psychiatry
Science and Sorrow
Mind Over Manual
“Been There?” Sometimes That Isn’t the Point
Sometimes, the Why Really Isn’t Crucial
Pharmutopia: Antidepressants and the numbing-down of America.
Patients Adrift in a Sea of Clinical Trials
Suicide Risks and SSRIs: New Data Should Change the Equation
Prescription: Flexibility
Bread and Shelter, Yes. Psychiatrists, No.
Doctors Behind Bars: Treating Pain Is Now Risky Business
The Rush to Black Label (or Blackball) SSRIs
Bad Medicine? The data on anti-depressants and child suicide aren’t conclusive.
Bad Medicine? The data on anti-depressants and child suicide aren’t conclusive. (Expanded Version)
Drugged and Confused
Painful Correction
The Perils of Putting National Leaders on the Couch
Two Countries, Two Views on Antidepressants
ADD Overdose?
Insanity Goes Back on Trial
OxyMorons
Medicine’s Race Problem (This article now appears in The Best American Science Writing 2002 edited by Matt Ridley, Ecco/Harper Collins)
Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D.
