Chapter covering the clinical reality and political implications of posttraumatic stress disorder.

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

Public awareness of the Holocaust has grown strikingly in recent years, resulting in a widespread appreciation of the enormity of that single historical event as well as its implications for our understanding of the most horrendous possibilities in human behavior. But this beneficial growth in Holocaust awareness has been paralleled...

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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...

On line registration for this event is closed. Walk in registrations will be accepted.The psychological toll of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom “could well be [our] generation’s Agent Orange syndrome,” one veterans’ advocacy group warns. A bill to increase federal spending on mental health treatment...

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?

Despite the horrors of combat and the prospect of continued deployments, rates of indiscipline and deep psychological trauma are low in the military, and reenlistment rates historically high. What explains this seeming paradox?