Psychology Today Blog

In debates about the soaring costs of American health care, attention typically turns to insurance reform, pharmaceutical pricing, hospital consolidation, or corporate profiteering. These are...

In my initial post in 2018, a 2024 post, and a recent post, I faulted psychiatry for continuing its pursuit of brain diseases as causes...

Theory is our basic scientific tool for establishing knowledge. It dictates how we conduct patient care, teaching, and research...

Americans have lived with a mental health crisis for as long as most of us can remember. And for just as long, medicine has been...

A March 17, 2025, article in the New York Times (updated March 24) by Ellen Barry worried me and should be read by all with...

We’re seeing continued advances in making psychiatric diagnoses—and, therefore, improved treatment. A major step in this direction occurred in 2009 when the National Institute of...