Curing the Therapeutic State: Thomas Szasz interviewed by Jacob Sullum
Thomas Szasz on the medicalization of American life.
Psychology/Psychiatry
Drug Trial
Is "medicalization" the first step in ending the drug war? Or just the next step in continuing it? Jacob Sullum lays out the "public health" issues and a panel of experts responds.
The Self-Fulfilling Polity
If self-actualization is right for individuals, what is right for the state? An excerpt from a new book by the author of The Psychology of Self-Esteem
Psychiatric Self-Defense
A new kind of "living will" would protect people from involuntary psychiatric intervention
Everything Your Child Always Wanted to Know
…about school, that is, but was afraid to ask. A psychologist and parent has some answers.
Conning Journalists for Psychiatric Profit
Every day, journalists who think they're being objective are parroting others' value judgments.
The Human Value of Sex
An excerpt from the long-awaited new book, The Psychology of Romantic Love
Doctors as Instruments of Repression
In the USSR, physicians serve the State, not their patients.
The Language of Interminable Introspection
R.D. Rosen singles out the weirdest of the new humanistic therapies. Offering instant happiness, they perpetuate a jargon that short-circuits understanding and intimacy.
Thank You Ayn Rand, and Goodbye
Remarks by Nathaniel Branden at REASON's tenth-anniversary banquet
Why We Consent to Oppression
Self-suppression paves the way for political suppression.
