AEI scholar and psychiatrist Sally Satel explains the number of problems with current PTSD treatments and proposes methods to optimize the use of PTSD funding.

At this AEI event, experts from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy discussed how pleasure motivates human behavior.

A neuroscientist recalls how a host of substances took over his life and how, at last, he learned to impose new patterns of thought and behavior.

Sally Satel, M.D., writes that in the wake of the Arizona shooting, now is the time to mandate the reporting of mental health concerns to help prevent future tragic incidents.

Insurance should cover effective and appropriate treatment for anorexia nervosa, which may or may not be residential care, for a particular patient. Adding coverage for any medical illness according to category (e.g., residential care) is usually a bad idea.

Involuntary commitment is bound to raise some apprehensions and there are serious questions about how it should be implemented, but there are horrible costs to the policy our society has been following.

A federal court ruling has vindicated the Obama Justice Department's claim that the CIA interrogation program is effective in producing actionable intelligence about al-Qaeda plots that cannot be obtained in any other way.

Online registration for this event is closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted.

Since the 1960s in the United States, hundreds of thousands of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat...