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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
  • Testimony and Related Commentary

Medicine and Psychiatry

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

Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

The Michael Shermer Show, January 22, 2022

The Remnant Podcast: Bad Medicine

The Dispatch, December 16, 2021

What is Happening to My Profession?

Quillette, November 30, 2021

The Experts Somehow Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left

The Atlantic, September 27, 2021

Do No Harm: Critical Race Theory and Medicine

Liberties, Volume I, Number 4

Don’t Undo the Trump Administration’s Mental-Health Reforms

E. Fuller Torrey and Sally Satel, National Review, February 1, 2021

Steroid medication gave me disturbing side effects. They changed my life in bad — and good — ways.

Washington Post, December 6, 2020

Is a Mental-Health Crisis Looming?

National Review, May 5, 2020

Give Hospital Workers Hazard Pay

Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2020

Right to try, right to buy, right to test

Washington Post, February 21, 2017

The Ritalin Generation

Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2016

Getting Meds: Why does government make it so hard?

Washington Monthly, June 2016

Precision Psychiatry: Hype or Promise?

Los Angeles Review of Books, March 4, 2016

Exploring the mind’s power over the body

Washington Post, February 5, 2016

Neurocentrism: Implications for Psychotherapy Practice and Research

Scott O. Lilienfeld, Seth J. Schwartz, Alan Meca, Katheryn C. Sauvigné, Sally Satel, The Behavior Therapist, October 2015

Friday Feedback: Solutions for the Psych Bed Shortage?

MedPage Today, January 31, 2014

Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?

November 28, 2013
Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?

Neuro-backlash? What backlash?

Rationally Speaking, September 16, 2013

50 Shades of Gray Matter

The Conversation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 20, 2013

Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience

June 17, 2013
Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience

Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience

Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld in Conversation with David Brooks, AEI Event, June 17, 2013

Can brain scans explain crime?

Sally Satel and Adrian Raine, The Washington Post, June 10, 2013

Who’s Brainwashed? Progress and hype in the world of neuroscience. Interview with Sally Satel

National Review Online, June 5, 2013

Don’t Read Too Much Into Brain Scans

Time, May 30, 2013

Why the Fuss Over the D.S.M.-5?

New York Times, May 11, 2013

Primed for Controversy

New York Times, February 23, 2013

After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”

November 28, 2011
After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”

Prescriptions for Psychiatric Trouble

The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2010

Prescriptions for Psychiatric Trouble, Unabridged Version

Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2010

To Fight Stigmas, Start With Treatment

New York Times, April 20, 2009

Dopamine Made Me Do It

Forbes, January 15, 2009

It’s All in Your Head

Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2008

Sociopolitical Aspects of Psychiatry

Sally L. Satel, M.D. and B. Christopher Frueh, Ph.D., Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, September 23, 2008

Science and Sorrow

The New Republic, February 27, 2008

Mind Over Manual

New York Times, September 13, 2007

“Been There?” Sometimes That Isn’t the Point

New York Times, June 12, 2007

Sometimes, the Why Really Isn’t Crucial

New York Times, December 19, 2006

Pharmutopia: Antidepressants and the numbing-down of America.

The Weekly Standard, June 5, 2006

Patients Adrift in a Sea of Clinical Trials

Medical Progress Today, April 19, 2006

Suicide Risks and SSRIs: New Data Should Change the Equation

Medical Progress Today, January 12, 2006

Prescription: Flexibility

National Review, September 27, 2005

Bread and Shelter, Yes. Psychiatrists, No.

The New York Times, March 25, 2005

Doctors Behind Bars: Treating Pain Is Now Risky Business

The New York Times, October 19, 2004

The Rush to Black Label (or Blackball) SSRIs

Medical Progress Today, September 30, 2004

Bad Medicine? The data on anti-depressants and child suicide aren’t conclusive.

National Review Online, September 12, 2004

Bad Medicine? The data on anti-depressants and child suicide aren’t conclusive. (Expanded Version)

Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2004

Drugged and Confused

The Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2004

Painful Correction

Forbes, September 6, 2004

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Appearances

  • Discussing mental health and Uvalde Discussing mental health and Uvalde
  • Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization? Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization?
  • Should human kidneys be bought and sold? Should human kidneys be bought and sold?
  • The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis
  • Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic? Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic?
  • TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions
  • The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media
  • A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment
  • A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics
  • Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it? Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it?
  • Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic
  • Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan
  • Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting? Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting?
  • Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do? Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do?
  • Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel
  • Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis
  • What if you could legally sell your kidney? What if you could legally sell your kidney?
  • Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy
  • Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’ Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’
  • Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping
  • Hope for Organ Markets? Hope for Organ Markets?
  • The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel
  • Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do? Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
  • Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
  • After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain” After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
  • Compensating Organ Donors Compensating Organ Donors
  • When Altruism Isn’t Enough When Altruism Isn’t Enough
  • Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D. Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D.
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