Psychology/Psychiatry

Culture

The Medicalization of Rebellion

The long, shameful history of using science to stigmatize dissent

Sheldon Richman | 4.21.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

ELIZA Gets Drafted

Jesse Walker | 4.20.2012 10:22 AM

Policy

It Might Be Premature to Blame 'Meth Babies' for Imposing 'Tremendous Burdens on Society'

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 5:52 PM

Policy

Do People Eat Too Much Because They Enjoy It Too Little?

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2012 3:37 PM

Policy

If You Recover From Asperger's, You Never Really Had It

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2012 2:59 PM

Science & Technology

Good Grief vs. Bad Depression

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2012 3:36 PM

Policy

UK Nanny State: Let's Send Gamers to Rehab

Nick Sibilla | 1.25.2012 2:42 PM

Policy

Why Is There an Adderall Shortage? Because Demand Exceeds Supply. Duh.

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2011 1:15 PM

Policy

Smart Kids Do Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2011 4:28 PM

Policy

Review Questions Warnings About Meth's Mental Effects

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2011 12:07 PM

Economics

Reason.tv: Evolutionary Psychologist Gad Saad on Consumerism, Sex, Advertising, and Human Nature

Zach Weissmueller | 11.15.2011 12:42 PM

Policy

Pediatrician Group Seeks to Boost ADHD Diagnoses

Jacob Sullum | 10.18.2011 6:42 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: John Tierney - Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

Katherine Mangu-Ward and Joshua Swain | 10.4.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Diagnosing in the Dark

The continuing relevance of Thomas Szasz's assault on psychiatric pretensions

Jacob Sullum | 9.27.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

New Evidence Supports Sequential Presentation of Suspect Photos to Eyewitnesses

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 3:27 PM

Policy

Springfield Police Arrive Seven Months Late for a Suicide

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 11:38 AM

Politics

The Evolution of Liberty

A discussion about brain, belief, and politics

Ronald Bailey | 9.13.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Who Will Protect Children From Dangerously Exciting Cartoons?

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2011 3:32 PM

Politics

Why Are People "Irrationally" Generous to Strangers?

New research finds that nice guys tend to finish first.

Ronald Bailey | 7.26.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Timothy Leary Speaks from Beyond the Grave

Jesse Walker | 7.5.2011 12:25 PM

Politics

A 'Compelling Interest' to Restrict Video Games Requires More Than Pediatricians' Prejudices

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2011 12:01 PM

Policy

Marcia Angell on 'The Illusions of Psychiatry' (Part II)

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 12:04 PM

Policy

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything: 20 to 30

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2011 4:06 PM

Policy

The Government's Addiction Expert Says We Like What We Like Because We Like It

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2011 6:27 PM

Policy

Half of Us Are Mentally Ill (and the Other Half Are Undiagnosed)

Jacob Sullum | 6.13.2011 4:47 PM

Politics

Is Smoking a Choice or an Addiction? Why Can't It Be Both?

Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

When Science Discovered Toxic Motherhood

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.9.2011 3:58 PM

Policy

Can't Shake the Shake Shakes

Jacob Sullum | 4.6.2011 1:39 PM

Politics

It's Hard to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future

The new book Future Babble explains why dart-throwing monkeys are better at predicting the future than most pundits.

Ronald Bailey | 4.5.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Charlie Sheen: Bi-Polar D-Bag or Szaszian Hero?

Nick Gillespie | 3.2.2011 9:01 PM

Politics

A Drug So Powerful It Causes Aggression and Passivity

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2011 12:56 PM

Policy

Sticklers for Procedure

Ohio's Supreme Court reverses an acquittal in yet another outrageous sex abuse prosecution.

Radley Balko | 2.14.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

No One Is Suggesting Salvia Made Him Do It—Except Us

Jacob Sullum | 1.21.2011 11:09 AM

Policy

Reefer Madness Spreads to the U.K.

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2011 12:01 PM

Policy

Looking for Loughners

Would laxer commitment rules make us safer?

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Cliff Kincaid's Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2011 4:27 PM

Politics

Looking for Loughners

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2011 12:03 PM

Politics

If Mental Illness Made Him Do It, Why Punish Him?

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2011 12:02 PM

Politics

David Frum on Jared Loughner's Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2011 5:56 PM

Politics

The Shootings in Arizona: A Reading List

Jesse Walker | 1.10.2011 10:23 AM

Policy

'There Is No Definition of a Mental Disorder'

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2011 1:03 PM

Policy

'I Wish I Could Talk in Technicolor'

Jacob Sullum | 1.5.2011 4:43 PM

Civil Liberties

Wild Turkey

Jesse Walker | 12.8.2010 10:29 AM

Economics

The Eleventh Commandment: Punish Free Riders

Religion and the evolutionary origin of cooperation

Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2010 4:40 PM

Politics

The Science of Libertarian Morality

A new social psychology study explores the moral formation of the libertarian personality.

Ronald Bailey | 11.2.2010 4:30 PM

Science & Technology

Therapists to Miners: We'll Come to Your Emotional Rescue

Jesse Walker | 10.14.2010 3:32 PM