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ifeminists July 15, 2003 Todd Andrew Barnett |
The Conviction of Christine Wilhelm The verdict is in: Christine Wilhelm, the mother who confessed to killing her four-year-old son Luke and attempted murder of her five-year-old son Peter in a bathtub in their home, has been found guilty of second degree murder.  |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Janelle Brown |
Swift injustice Anger and frustration dominate reactions to the quick guilty verdict in the murder trial of Andrea Yates...  |
Reason July 2007 Brian Doherty |
'You Can't See Why on an fMRI' What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense.  |
Reason May 2005 Jacob Sullum |
Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics In Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics, edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Szasz sticks to his guns and scores many points, but his responses are not always completely satisfying.  |
ifeminists August 2, 2006 Tony Zizza |
Wrong Verdict in Yates Case The verdict that came down in the new Andrea Yates murder trial of "not guilty by reason of insanity" is absolutely insane. She needs to spend the rest of her life in prison for drowning not one child, or two, or three, or four, but five children.  |
Salon.com March 14, 2002 Douglas Cruickshank |
The Andrea Yates verdict is insane A mentally ill mother is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are beyond her control...  |
Reason January 2003 Jacob Sullum |
Head Games What are the rules for defining mental illness?  |
Salon.com May 26, 2000 Dawn MacKeen |
Shrinks under scrutiny Should shrinks probe the violent fantasies of patients? They often don't. And that failure can be tragic.  |
Salon.com July 27, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
The mind of a killer A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated...  |
ifeminists February 16, 2005 Byron Fraser |
Marginalized No Longer! In Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts--What Causes Mental Illness, Ty C. Colbert elucidates his very innovative concept of a forced choice: the emotional pain model does not lay the blame on the individual, but eventually opens the door for him to take charge of his own life and set of choices.  |
Reason July 2000 Jacob Sullum |
Curing the Therapeutic State Thomas Szasz, author of "The Myth of Mental Illness," on the medicalization of American life.  |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Suzanne O'Malley |
Worst-case scenario I knew it was coming, but it's still hard to accept: In Texas, mental illness is not a defense to murder...  |
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Tony Zizza |
NAMI Is Dead Wrong On Mental Health Screening It's time to relentlessly put President Bush's mental health screening monster and groups like NAMI in their place. Mandatory mental health screening is child abuse.  |
Reason May 2002 Brian Doherty |
Ill-Treated The continuing history of psychiatric abuses is laid out in Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, by Robert Whitaker...  |
Salon.com May 25, 2000 J.B. Orenstein |
Who will care for the crazy? She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones.  |
Salon.com February 8, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Why shoot at the White House? So far, Robert Pickett fits the profile of the loner gunman: White, middle-aged, isolated and maybe ready for the Secret Service to take him down...  |
Managed Care March 2006 Michael S. Victoroff |
When Should Bad Behavior Become a Covered Disease? Defining noxious people as 'sick' distinguishes them socially from sinners, criminals, and scoundrels.  |
Reason November 2000 |
Letters Vouchers for Childcare... Mad About Szasz... Reinforcing the Foundation...  |
Managed Care February 2002 Heidi A. Sauder & Sheri Wallace |
Push Is On for Improved Treatment of Women's Psychological Maladies Sure there are diagnostic and treatment challenges, but the money that can be saved for society might make this fertile ground for investment...  |
Reason April 2008 Michael C. Moynihan |
Psychotic Reaction A series of recent incidents suggests that a Soviet-era practice, of diagnosing dissidents with mental illnesses in order to confine them to institutions, might be making a comeback.  |
ifeminists March 24, 2009 Tony Zizza |
Mental health stats merit scrutiny I don't believe the mental health system in Tennessee, or in this country for that matter, faces a severe crisis.  |
Salon.com July 11, 2001 Amy Benfer |
A history of failure Author and psychologist Bruce Levine pummels psychiatry, psychotropic drugs and the role both may have played in the case of Andrea Yates...  |
On Wall Street May 1, 2012 Lorie Konish |
Counseling Clients Through Mental Illness Wealth planning for families coping with mental illnesses requires a lot of attention around estate plans and supplemental and special needs trusts to ensure affected family members are cared for.  |
ifeminists July 26, 2006 Tony Zizza |
Are Affluent Teens The Latest Victims Of Mental Illness? Everything in America is viewed through the prism of alleged mental illness. Affluent teenagers are just today's advertising copy for the next psych drug and insurance billing code.  |
Managed Care October 2002 John Carroll |
National Mental Health Parity Bill Poised To Pass This Time Around After years of skirmishing over mental health parity, the battle lines are drawn. Troops are armed with a cache of talking points and data -- pro and con. And, after a brief summer truce, another big showdown looms on Capitol Hill.  |
ifeminists October 22, 2002 Tresa McBee |
Pass the Prozac Sparring spouses seek counseling, where they are diagnosed with "relational disorder," meaning the relationship is causing problems, not the people. Relational disorder is not a recognized mental illness. Yet. If two psychiatrists convince enough people, RD could be added to the DSM.  |
American Family Physician October 1, 2002 |
Mental Health: Keeping Your Emotional Health What is good emotional health?... What about anger?... What can I do to avoid problems?... Tips on dealing with your emotions... How does stress affect my emotions?... Can emotional problems be treated?... etc.  |
Job Journal August 24, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Psychiatrist Psychiatrists tend to the mental well-being of society.  |
Managed Care May 2002 Michael S. Victoroff |
Psychologist Prescribing: Not Such a Crazy Idea New Mexico has just granted medication-prescribing authority to certain certified Ph.D psychologists -- a development with broad potential implications for the field of mental health. It's a bold precedent  |
AskMen.com Michael Anthony |
Beware Of Mental Traps Here are just some of the mental traps many golfers fall into. When you expect a certain level of play and watch the score to see how you are doing, you open yourself to trouble.  |
Job Journal May 28, 2006 Rich Heintz |
Do You Have a Head for Mental Health Work? Would working in the field of mental health make you happy? Here is a look at some professions.  |
Job Journal February 13, 2005 Rich Heintz |
Positive Outlook for Mental Health Careers Passage of Prop 63 in California offers hope of a hiring boom.  |
ifeminists December 5, 2008 Tony Zizza |
Don't We All Have A Personality Disorder? On December 2nd, the Fox News website posted this from the AP: "1 in 5 Young Adults Has Personality Disorder, Study Finds." Isn't this lovely?  |