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.

Altering public attitudes toward the mentally ill depends largely on whether they receive treatment that works.

There is substantial disagreement in the policy community about the ability of private insurance to cover the treatment of mental health conditions. Some argue that companies designing health insurance benefits have a long-term and deep-seated bias against including coverage for mental health, a bias that can only be corrected...

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?

The medical community has undertaken a vigorous debate about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At one extreme are doctors, psychologists, and others who question whether clinicians are "medicalizing" childhood. At the other pole are doctors who eagerly prescribe medications for youngsters at the slightest hint of trouble. Nonetheless,...

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.

The Senate's mental health parity bill is ill-conceived.

The medical profession has suffered some serious self-inflicted wounds, and a new book by Carl Elliott focuses on how he thinks medicine has gone wrong but is short on solutions.