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.

Ours is an era of grief counselors, workshoppers, self-esteem facilitators, and traumatologists, all steeped in "therapism," a powerful modern ethos that encompasses several unfounded assumptions, including the importance of emotional self disclosure to mental health; the need for most people, including school children, to seek psychological help rather than ethical...

A new rule broadens the definition of post-traumatic stress disorder, allowing non-combat veterans to receive disability benefits for being traumatized by events they did not actually experience.

Expelling college students for suicidal thoughts or behavior violates clinical common sense; instead, universities should adopt enlightened individualized approaches to helping these vulnerable students.

Company funded trials are valuable, but more needs to be done.

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

2008 Olympics should focus a lens on the nature of the Chinese regime, acknowledging its progress, but denouncing its suppression of basic freedoms and encouraging liberalization of the political system.

Social activists, scholars and even health professionals are telling us that the culture of medicine is to blame for many illnesses.