“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...
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 ...
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 —...
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...
[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 ...
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 ...
Over at Slate I have a story, “The New Temper Tantrum Disorder,” about the “Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder” I wrote about more b...
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...
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...
Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs takes another look at the causes of tragedies like the one in Aurora.