Trauma in New Orleans
Dr. Marc Siegel : New Orleans
The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.

Dr. Marc Siegel : New Orleans
The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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.
Bruce Shapiro : Guns & Gun Control
The desire to impose a narrative on chaotic events leaves the meaning of the Virginia Tech shootings up for grabs.
D.T. Max : Autobiography & Memoir
In his memoir Wish I Could Be There, Allen Shawn movingly details a life crippled by phobias.
Dr. Marc Siegel
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.


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