Problem
The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness by Ethan Watters . Psychiatry is under attack for not being scientific enough, but the real problem is its blindness to culture. When it comes to mental [...]
Relationship Guide
It’s not about the nail….see here.
Problem
Sexual Assaults in the Military: Porn is Part of the Problem by Peter J. Smyczek and Kenneth Artz. It is bad enough when high-ranking military officers are arrested for sexual assault, including instructors who have assaulted trainees. It is almost [...]
Hard?
How Hard Is Psychology? by Jesse Marczyk. The scientific method is a pretty useful tool for assisting people in doing things related to testing hypotheses and discerning truth – or as close as one can come to such things. Like [...]
Problem
The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder by Linda Logan. The last time I saw my old self, I was 27 years old and living in Boston. I was doing well in graduate school, had a tight circle of [...]
Moods
How To Manage Your Partner’s Bad Moods by Alex Lickerman. As with most things in life, romantic relationships are, for many of us, a double-edged sword: while most find it wonderful to love and be loved, developing intimate emotional ties [...]
Unexcited?
Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That by Daniel Bergner. Beckoned by ads on the radio and in newspapers and on Craigslist, in the fall of 2011 women across America began applying to be among the 420 subjects in [...]
Boycotting
Minding the Campus provides an excerpt from Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood and the American Dream-And Why It Matters by Helen Smith.
Unskilled
From the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, by Justin Kruger and David Dunning, Department of Psychology, Cornell University. People tend to hold overly [...]
Breakthrough?
Could a Notorious Party Drug be the Next Psychiatric Breakthrough? by George Dvorsky. MDMA is a drug that’s typically associated with youth culture and dance parties — but it’s increasingly attracting the attention of psychologists and cognitive therapists. Also known [...]
Perfect?
Want Marriage Problems? Expect Your Spouse to Be Perfect by Susan Heitler. Perfectionism can invite marriage problems, especially if it’s your spouse whom you are expecting to be perfect. Of course you know not to expect yourself to be perfect. [...]
Reviews
FT briefly reviews The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg; Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life by Allen Frances; Cracked: Why [...]
Disease
Suicidal Behavior is a Disease, Psychiatrists Argue by Sara Reardon. As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behavior should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than [...]
Worldview
Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories by Maggie Koerth-Baker. In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers [...]
Explain?
Does Evolutionary Psychology Explain Why We Believe in God? by Michael Murray and Jeffrey Schloss. Part 1 Part 2
Buy Happiness
How to Buy Happiness by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton. The new science of spending points to a surprising conclusion: How we use our money may matter as much or more than how much of it we’ve got. Read the [...]
Inflames
Religion Flames the ‘Us Versus Them’ Mindset by Gad Saad. In one of my earliest posts I argued that the only time that peace is likely to reign on earth is if we were to be attacked by Martians (or [...]
WEIRD
Psychology Is WEIRD by Bethany Brookshire. Western college students are not the best representatives of human emotion, behavior, and sexuality. More at Slate.
Price
The Price of Sex: Women Rule, Men Drool, the Market’s Cruel by Noam Shpancer. Sex is commonly thought of as a private, intimate event that occurs behind closed doors. We like to think of making love in its personal, romantic [...]
Revolutionizing
The Criminal Mind by Adrian Raine. Advances in genetics and neuroscience are revolutionizing our understanding of violent behavior—as well as ideas about how to prevent and punish crime. More at the NYT.