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The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness

Psychiatry is under attack for not being scientific enough, but the real problem is its blindness to culture. When it comes to mental illness, we wear the disorders that come off the rack.

Ethan Watters

Social Justice

The ‘DSM-5’: Introducing the Latest Edition of Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Bible

What does it mean that the American Psychiatric Association is switching from Roman numerals to Arabic? And will the critics ever be won over?

Sharon Begley

Social Justice

Psychiatry’s Contested Bible: How the New DSM Treats Addiction

The 1,000-page psychiatrists' Big Book will redefine addiction. Critics are already demanding a boycott.

Michael Dhar

Victims of sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual abuse, and their supporters protest during a #MeToo march in Hollywood, California, on November 12th, 2017.

Ideas

The Indelible Memory of Assault

Research suggests that victims like E. Jean Carroll tend to remember their assaults vividly. I know because I'm one of them.

Michele Weldon

The abortion drug Mifepristone, also known as RU486.

Social Justice

‘These Maternal Deaths Could Have Been Avoided’: A Closer Look at the Major New Study Finding That Abortions Don’t Harm Women’s Health

This research is particularly important at a time when states across the country are passing new laws concerning abortion.

Francie Diep

News in Brief

Calling Addiction a Disease Can Sometimes Hamper Recovery

New research finds that an empowering message, emphasizing a person's potential to manage addictions, is much more helpful.

Tom Jacobs

News in Brief

Youth Suicides Spiked Following the Release of ’13 Reasons Why’

A new study suggests that public-health concerns over the popular Netflix series were justified.

Tom Jacobs

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We Need More Research Into Antidepressant Withdrawal

Getting off my antidepressant was hell. I'm not alone—and the pharmaceutical industry isn't helping.

David M. Perry

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Is CBD Safe? The FDA Is Looking Into It.

The agency says it is looking into the use of CBD in food as well as deceptive marketing of CBD products.

Emily Moon