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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
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Mental Health

Delivering Services to Individuals With Severe Mental Illness: SAMHSA Falls Short

Psychiatric Services, September 1, 2014

Veterans Affairs Needs to Get a Clue About PTSD Treatment

Time, June 27, 2014

Can Therapists Prevent Violence?

New York Times Room for Debate, May 29, 2014

Wall Street Is Not a Death Trap

Bloomberg, March 31, 2014

A Law to Fix Mental-Health Care

Bloomberg, December 22, 2013

We Have the Tools to Prevent Another Shooting Spree

Bloomberg, September 19, 2013

Can brain scans explain crime?

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

Distinguishing Brain From Mind

The Atlantic, May 30, 2013

A PTSD Knighthood, and Narrative

Time, March 6, 2013

Enforce the Laws, Don’t Add to Them

New York Times, January 17, 2013

The Wrong Way to Help Veterans

New York Times, August 19, 2011

PTSD’s Diagnostic Trap

Policy Review, February 1, 2011

Time to mandate reporting of mental health concerns

USA Today, January 18, 2011

Dealing With Mental Disorders on Campus: Involuntary Treatment Laws

New York Times: Room for Debate, January 13, 2011

The Battle Over Battle Fatigue

Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2010

Singing the Brain Disease Blues

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, AJOB Neuroscience, January 2010

Expel Students Who Might Kill Themselves?

Minding the Campus, December 21, 2009

When Altruism Isn’t Enough

August 24, 2009
When Altruism Isn’t Enough

To Fight Stigmas, Start With Treatment

New York Times, April 20, 2009

It’s All in Your Head

Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2008

A Helping Hand for Vets

Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2008

Sane Mental Health Laws? Don’t hold your breath. Federal “advocates” are standing in the way of reform.

The Weekly Standard, May 28, 2007

The Trouble with Traumatology

The Weekly Standard, February 12, 2007

First, Do Harm

The Weekly Standard, February 5, 2007

Measuring the Psychic Pain of War

Slate, August 29, 2006

Stressed Out Vets: Believing the worst about post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Weekly Standard, August 21, 2006

A Statement of Madness

National Review, April 5, 2006

For Some, The War Is Never Over

The New York Times, March 1, 2006

For Some, the War Won’t End

The New York Times, March 1, 2006

Defining Down Mental Illness

Sally Satel and Christina Sommers, Washington Post, August 14, 2005

Saving Our Vets Once They’re Home: The right kind of mental health treatment is vital.

Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2005

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies

Psychiatric Services, June 2005

The Children of Ground Zero,

New York Post, May 12, 2005

Brain-based leniency would give teen killers a pass

USA Today, February 20, 2005

The Therapy Reflex

National Review Online, January 14, 2005

Returning From Iraq, Still Fighting Vietnam

The New York Times, March 5, 2004

Out of the Asylum, Into The Cell

The New York Times, November 1, 2003

Mind Games: The Senate’s mental health parity bill is ill-conceived.

Sally Satel and Keith Humphreys, The Weekly Standard, October 4, 2003

Commission’s Omission: The president’s mental-health commission in denial.

Sally Satel and Mary Zdanowicz, National Review Online, July 29, 2003

The Trauma Society

The New Republic, May 19, 2003

Talk About Trauma!

The Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2003

Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease?

Sally Satel and Frederick K. Goodwin, M.D., Ethics and Public Policy Center, April 20, 2003

New Yorkers Don’t Need Therapy

The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2002

Manager’s Journal: Good Grief: Don’t Get Taken by the Trauma Industry

Sally Satel and Christina Hoff Sommers, The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2001

Crazed and Confused: A murder defendant is forced to choose between the death penalty and permanent madness.

Slate, August 29, 2001

The Truth about Anti-depressants Will Cheer You Up

Ex Femina, October 2000

Prime-Time Psychosis

The New York Times, April 3, 2000

Baseball Is Off Its Rocker

The Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2000

‘Parity’ Isn’t Charity

Sally Satel and Steven S. Sharfstein, The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 1999

An Overabundance Of Counseling?

The New York Times, April 23, 1999

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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?
  • Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger
  • 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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