Transcending Trauma Transcending Trauma
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.
Dec 13, 2008 / Feature / Victor Lopez
Back Talk: Paul Offit Back Talk: Paul Offit
A doctor defends scientific research against the potentially fatal misperceptions of the anti-vaccine movement.
Oct 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Trauma in New Orleans Trauma in New Orleans
The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.
Aug 23, 2007 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel
Our Broken Mental Health System Our Broken Mental Health System
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.
Apr 20, 2007 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich
Story Lines at Virginia Tech Story Lines at Virginia Tech
The desire to impose a narrative on chaotic events leaves the meaning of the Virginia Tech shootings up for grabs.
Apr 19, 2007 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
The Anatomy of Fear The Anatomy of Fear
In his memoir Wish I Could Be There, Allen Shawn movingly details a life crippled by phobias.
Mar 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / D.T. Max
Fear Itself Fear Itself
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 ...
Sep 20, 2005 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel
Death, Depression and Prozac Death, Depression and Prozac
Jeff Weise, teen slayer of ten, including himself, at the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, was on Prozac, prescribed by some doc.
Mar 31, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Antidepressants a Problem? We’re Shocked! Antidepressants a Problem? We’re Shocked!
Six years after Kip Kinkel, dosed up with Prozac, killed his parents and two students at Thurston High, in Oregon; five years after Eric Harris, dosed with Luvox, embarked on his...
Apr 1, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Trouble in Prozac Nation Trouble in Prozac Nation
Correction: Editorial tightening created the impression that two drug studies, by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, were one study by Pfizer. We regret the error.
Dec 18, 2003 / Editorial / Richard DeGrandpre