There is in fact a powerful reason to scrutinize the psychology field: we are in the midst of a mental illness epidemic. Office visits by children and adolescents treated for the condition jumped forty-fold from 1994 to 2003.

The American Psychiatric Association has released the blueprint for the fifth edition of its official handbook of diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Will the proposed revisions, which could place more of the population under pathology, help us to better understand mental disorders?

Being human is not a condition in need of a cure.

Over the last hundred years, psychiatry has taken very different perspectives on war stress.

Psychiatry has transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorders due to the uncertainty of the true workings of the brain.

This paper presents a number of psychological issues that could influene the behaviors of teenagers who become parents out of wedlock.