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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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Mental Health

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

Mind the Children: How to Think About the Youth Mental Health Collapse

Edited By Naomi Schaefer Riley and Sally Satel, AEI Press, June 17, 2025
Mind the Children: How to Think About the Youth Mental Health Collapse

Expanding Reciprocity

City Journal, December 2, 2024

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

Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2024

“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

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

October 30, 2023
“Defining Deviancy Down” at 30: Reflections on Crime, Welfare, and Mental Health

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

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

Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2023

The Best Minds: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosen

April 25, 2023
The Best Minds: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosen

The Flawed Case for Executing the Mentally Ill

National Review, March 12, 2023

Social-justice shrinks: how identity politics infected therapy

The Spectator, February 20, 2023

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

Washington Post, October 6, 2022

Discussing mental health and Uvalde

Fox News, The Journal Editorial Report, May 27, 2022
Discussing mental health and Uvalde

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

Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2022

When Therapists Become Activists

Persuasion, August 13, 2021

Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office

Quillette, May 7, 2021

‘The Quick Fix’ Review: A Bias Toward Easy Answers

Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2021

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

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

Rethink Crisis Response (Unabridged Version)

Reason, October 2020

Rethink Crisis Response

Reason, October 2020

Questionable Psychological Science Won’t Change Police

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, National Review, August 3, 2020

Take Kanye West’s illness more seriously than his presidential ambitions

USA Today, July 22, 2020

Take Kanye West’s illness more seriously than his presidential ambitions (Better Version with Hyperlinks)

USA Today, July 22, 2020

‘The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code’ Review: Robbing Fear of Its Power

Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2020

Is a Mental-Health Crisis Looming?

National Review, May 5, 2020

What The Supreme Court’s Decision Reveals About The Flaws In The Insanity Defense

Forbes, March 27, 2020

The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media

Columbia Journalism School, January 24, 2019
The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media

Psychologists want to change how they treat men. That’s a problem.

The Washington Post, January 18, 2019

A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment

The Aspen Institute, September 27, 2018
A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment

Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting?

Journal Editorial Report, Fox News, February 19, 2018
Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting?

Does It Take a Shrink to Evaluate Trump?

Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2018

Why I Admire Anthony Weiner

New York Times, September 25, 2017

Who Decides Whether Trump Is Unfit to Govern?

Peter D. Kramer and Sally L. Satel, New York Times, August 29, 2017

Who Decides Whether Trump Is Unfit to Govern? (Unabridged version)

Peter D. Kramer and Sally Satel, New York Times, August 29, 2017

Neurohype: A Field Guide to Exaggerated Brain-Based Claims

Scott O. Lilienfeld, Elizabeth Aslinger, Julia Marshall, and Sally Satel, The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, July 2017

Organs for the Mentally Disabled

Sally Satel and Kurt Schuler, National Review, March 27, 2017

Her damaged brain forgot new experiences but she still improved on the viola

Washington Post, February 9, 2017

Use disabilities law to avoid violent confrontations with mentally disabled people

Kim Hendrickson and Sally Satel, San Francisco Chronicle, January 18, 2017

Advocacy From the Edge: Carrie Fisher spent decades advocating for mental health treatment and against stigma. Here’s how we should honor her.

Slate, December 27, 2016

It’s OK to Speculate About Trump’s Mental Health

Slate, October 13, 2016

The Ritalin Generation

Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2016

Mental Health Reform Desperately Needed To Pass House And Senate

Forbes, June 8, 2016

Is addiction a brain disease?

The Conversation, May 10, 2016

When our reason is hijacked by an uncontrollable urge

Washington Post, April 29, 2016

A Prescription for Mental-Health Policy

Sally Satel and E. Fuller Torrey, National Affairs, Spring 2016

You Won’t Believe The Government Is Supporting This Crackpot Mental Health Therapy

Forbes, March 29, 2016

What Government Researchers Get Wrong About Addiction

Forbes, February 29, 2016

Exploring the mind’s power over the body

Washington Post, February 5, 2016

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
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