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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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Medicine and Psychiatry

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

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

Therapists Are Still Behaving Like Activists

Persuasion, February 13, 2025

The Woke Couch

Liberties Journal, Volume 5, Number 2

The Health Equity Agenda is a Bad Prescription

Sensible Medicine, November 26, 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

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

Wall Street Journal, April 19, 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

Physicians, Heal Thyselves

Commentary, October 26, 2023

Social Justice in Psychotherapy and Beyond

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

​​Focus on the Research, Not the Researcher

Persuasion, May 1, 2023

Are Florida Universities Training Therapists to Be Political Activists?

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

“The Moral Sense” and the Human Brain

Pepperdine School of Public Policy, January 27, 2023

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 Journal, Volume 1, 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

Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

By Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Basic Books, June 4, 2013
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

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

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
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