Nation Topics - Mental Health | The Nation

Anne Rophie’s Art and Madness, Millicent Monk’s Songs of Three Islands, Maisie Houghton’s Pitch Uncertain.

BBC/PRI's "The World" interviews reporter Joshua Kors about his ongoing series on the deliberate misdiagnosis of injured returning veterans. 

Science can be disproved only by its own criteria; when it comes to mental illness, its own criteria are often insufficient.

This essay, the college winner of The Nation's Student Writing Contest, argues for a federal oversight panel to overhaul the treatment of those in foster care.

A doctor defends scientific research against the potentially fatal misperceptions of the anti-vaccine movement.

The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.

Although the mental health industry eagerly gives A.D.D. diagnoses to little boys who can't sit still, Cho Seung-Hui's illness was ignored.

The desire to impose a narrative on chaotic events leaves the meaning of
the Virginia Tech shootings up for grabs.

In his memoir Wish I Could Be There, Allen Shawn movingly details a life crippled by phobias.

Some people are scaring themselves about the wrong
things in ways that are doing terrorists' work for them. Here's one
physician's prescription for bringing irrational fears under control.