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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

How Bad Can a Federal Agency Be?

Sally Satel and E. Fuller Torrey, National Review, December 11, 2015

Diagnosing the urge to run for office

Politico, October 30, 2015

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

Kicking the Habit: If addiction is a brain disease, addicts are mad, sick and defective. If it’s a failure of will, users are bad, immoral and weak.

Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2015

Fixing America’s Mental-Health System

Sally Satel and E. Fuller Torrey, National Review, June 17, 2015

The adolescent brain defense: The Tsarnaev death sentence and beyond

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Washington Post, May 18, 2015

Neuro-expert testifies for Tsarnaev

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Washington Post, May 11, 2015

The ‘immature teen brain’ defense and the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial

Sally Satel and O. Lilienfeld, Washington Post, May 7, 2015

Addiction and the brain-disease fallacy

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Frontiers in Psychiatry, March 3, 2015

The enigma of survival: How does one tell the untraumatized majority about the conditions that constitute the underworld of trauma?

Pacific Standard, March 2, 2015

Don’t Execute Schizophrenic Killers

Bloomberg, December 1, 2014

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

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
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