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How Culture Shapes Madness, my latest at Pacific Standard

Posted on October 3, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...

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A Book Almost Impossible to Have Lived and Written: Roberta Payne’s “Speaking to My Madness”

Posted on December 5, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I wanted to kill myself.  Almost.  In my mind I went right to that edge and knew that I wanted to try to kill myself but be found while I was still alive.  But ...

Brains and Behavior/Medicine

Stephen Fry on Suicide, and Wanting Both to Be Alone and Be Left Alone

Posted on June 25, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

The wonderful actor and writer Stephen Fry attempted suicide last year. Yesterday — by chance the same day a story of mine about suicide came out in the Times —...

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“The Book of Woe” – Gary Greenberg’s Romp of a Read About the DSM Debacle

Posted on June 10, 2013 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

Note: This review first appeared in Nature, 2 May 2012. My thanks to Nature for the commission and fine editorial support. When it is published later this month...

Brains and Behavior/Culture

Madness, Genius, & Sherman’s Ruthless March (NC Moving Party Track #9)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Ed note: Originally posted March 2012. See note at bottom.] In 1864, in a move crucial to winning the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman led his army of some ...

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A Case That Tells the Weird Tale of DSM – and Other Recommended Reading

Posted on May 18, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

For a single post that shows how weirdly and unevenly psychiatric diagnosis actually works (and fails to work) in this country, and what that means for the new ...

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Psychiatry Throws a Tantrum

Posted on December 7, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Over at Slate I have a story, “The New Temper Tantrum Disorder,” about the “Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder” I wrote about more b...

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Should Soldiers Who Survive Suicide Attempts Be Court-Martialed?

Posted on November 29, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Should soldiers who survive suicide attempts be court-martialed — tossed from the military in shame? It’s a sticky question that gets stickier on examinat...

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Is PTSD A Product of War, or Of Our Times?

Posted on August 12, 2012 by David Dobbs / 10 Comments

How long has PTSD been around? Is the response to trauma outlined in our current PTSD diagnosis something that has long happened to a subset of people facing tr...

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Batman Returns: How Culture Shapes Muddle Into Madness

Posted on July 27, 2012 by David Dobbs / 14 Comments

Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs takes another look at the causes of tragedies like the one in Aurora.

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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