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Psychiatry

  1. book review
    What Their Psychiatrists Won’t Tell YouIn Rachel Aviv’s book Strangers to Ourselves, personal narratives of mental illness take primacy over institutions’.
    By Jane Hu
  2. mental health
    The Prison Psychiatrist Who Knows There Are Some Inmates He Just Can’t Help“But I’m hesitant to write anybody off. I’d rather be swept up in their lie than be cynical and miss something.”
    As told to Diana Briggs
  3. conversion therapy
    What Anti-Gay Conversion Therapy Was Like in the 1960sThe author and journalist Steven Gaines recounts his experiences in a tony Manhattan psychiatric hospital.
    By Jesse Singal
  4. Stop Psychoanalyzing Trump From Afar, Psychiatrist Commands Other PsychiatristsIt’s “irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical,” the president of the American Psychiatric Association said.
    By Melissa Dahl
  5. strange cases
    This Blind Woman Had 10 Personalities, and Some of Them Could See A case of psychogenic blindness. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  6. strange cases
    This Man Thought His Family Was Replaced by Evil ClonesIt doesn’t end well.
    By Melissa Dahl
  7. mental health
    Biological Explanations of Behavior Might Reduce EmpathyWhen we see people as being physically damaged, it might be harder to have sympathy for them.
    By Jesse Singal
  8. multiple personalities
    A New, Skeptical Look at ‘Multiple Personality Disorder’A Retro Report exposes just how vulnerable psychology and psychiatry are to hysteria and groupthink.
    By Jesse Singal
  9. first person
    I Broke Up With 6 Shrinks. Is It Them, or Me?When therapy resembles dating.
    By Tim Murphy
  10. Psychiatry in the Age of Justifiable ParanoiaHow do you talk to a delusional person who isn’t totally wrong to be paranoid? 
    By Melissa Dahl
  11. moms
    My Mom’s a Therapist, and My Feelings About It Are ComplicatedDrawing the line between daughter and patient. 
    By Jessica Grose
  12. psychiatry 2.0
    Can You Diagnose a Manic Episode on Twitter?Maybe, say prominent psychiatrists.
    By Maureen O'Connor
  13. ‘Comedians as a group still adhere to the idea that you’re only funny if […]NPR interviewed Dr. Ildiko Tabori, the Laugh Factory’s new in-house shrink, about why comedians need his help more than the average person: […]
    By Adam Frucci