Mental Health

Psych Patients Remember Esmin Green

Scientologist Reveals "Psychiatry" Made Osama Do 9/11

Update: Original video pulled, here's a clean version. What was really behind 9/11? Now it can be told, at least by Scientologists: psychiatry. It should comes as no shock that Scientologists, who think psychiatry is behind all the great wrongs of the world from the Middle Ages forward, would al ... More >>

To Catch-22 a Predator

On Ward's Island, it's legal limbo for men who probably deserve it

Lost Legacy?

Gidone Busch's Death Unlikely to Bring NYPD Policy Change

Tanisha's Scars

Inside Bedford Hills prison, women swallow pins and slice their arms

Labor’s Loneliest Battles

New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

Low Anxiety

Fear of the Subway Derails Thousands

Sports

Fear of the Subway Derails Thousands

The Shrink Brigade

Therapists Take On Managed Care

Tumbling Down

Eating Disorders and the Female Athlete

Letters

Eating Disorders and the Female Athlete

Injecting Big Brother

New Vaccines May Drug-Proof Kids

Letters

New Vaccines May Drug-Proof Kids

Sarafem Nation

Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

Watts Up

More New Yorkers Getting Zapped by Court-Ordered Electroshock

Letters

More New Yorkers Getting Zapped by Court-Ordered Electroshock

Letters

More New Yorkers Getting Zapped by Court-Ordered Electroshock

When Crazy Is Normal

Portrait of a Grieving City

CRACK Comes to New York

Group Pays Addicts for Sterilization

'Nervous From the Service'

Military Psychiatry Revamps Old Tune

Shell-Shock and Awe

On the Past—and Present—of Military Psychiatry

The Suicide of Mr. A

A Mentally Ill Inmate Slips Through the Cracks—Into the Path of a Subway Train

High Anxiety

I'm a reasonably happy person—or at least I was before I went into psychotherapy

Where Justice and Mercy Meet

In Brooklyn's Mental Health Court, compassion is the rule

Theater

In Brooklyn's Mental Health Court, compassion is the rule

The Drug to End All Drugs

Addicts may get new lives, as clinical studies of exotic, controversial ibogaine are set to resume

Head Case

In theory and practice, psychoanalysis flourishes in academia

Songs From the Black Chair

Ten years of listening to the city's most troubled men

School of Shock

Inside a school where mentally disturbed students are jolted into good behavior

Crazy Behavior

Staff, not inmates, at Brooklyn's biggest psychiatric ward

Letters

Staff, not inmates, at Brooklyn's biggest psychiatric ward

Shock and Awe

The stunning comeback of electroshock and other harrowing treatments for the mentally ill

Personality, Interrupted

Re-branding borderline personality disorder

Baby Madness

How one young woman's delusions cost her years of freedom

AA Unmasked

The Premier 12-Step Program Has a Killer Drug Problem

Frank Bruni Shares His Darker Food Secrets in Born Round

A new memoir from the soon-to-be-former Times restaurant critic

Let Your Plate Be the Boss of Your Appetite: Mandometer Device Tells You When to Stop Eating

Have trouble calling it quits when it comes to a meal? Hook your plate up to Mandometer, a real device that tells you when to stop eating and when to slow down.

The East Village Braces Itself for a New Bar in Bad Taste: The 13th Step

Taunting recovering alcoholics since 2010.​Alcoholics Anonymous describes the "13th step" as a "euphemism for inappropriate sexual advances by a member to a newcomer in AA (such as sponsors toward sponsees)." Also used as a verb, "thirteenth stepping" is never seen as a good thing. And so, it' ... More >>

Court of Appeals Denies State Lawyers Access to Psychiatric Patients in Nursing Homes

​In a 4-3 decision, the New York State Court of Appeals refused this week to order nursing homes to provide lawyers from the state's Mental Health Legal Services access to psychiatric patients and their medical records. The suit sprang from investigative reporting about the Pataki-era practice ... More >>

School Attacks Highlight Mental Illness, Increasing "Social Pressures" in China

​Why do Chinese adults keep attacking Chinese schoolchildren? Most recently: A man broke into a school in the Shandong Province on Friday and beat five preschoolers before setting himself on fire. This has been the fourth assault on Chinese students in just over a month, and the third in thr ... More >>

Newsweek: Antidepressants Depressingly Wonky

​An excellent Newsweek cover story today brings the sad news that antidepressants depressingly don't work. Which is sad, because - among other reasons - a lot of people use them. What's even worse, however, is that they work less than placebos.

Ibogaine: Can it Cure Addiction Without the Hallucinogenic Trip?

The substance has helped addicts kick heroin, meth, and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Tribeca Might Get Its Own A-List "Halfway House"

NYO / Google Maps​The Real Deal says that Hazelden, the renowned, Minnesoate-based addiction clinic, is eyeing a $10 million spot in a Tribeca condominium on West Broadway. Finally, New York's celebrity alkies and drug addicts can get clean in the kind of luxury their fame affords!

Today in El Diario: Alcohol's Deadly Toll

​Drowning in drink New Yorkers drink a lot, so there's always a steady stream of hospitalizations and emergency room visits because of booze, and some of the city's immigrant communities are leading the way, according to the Spanish-language daily. In 2009, alcohol led to 70,000 emergency room ... More >>

New Yorkers Are a Bunch of Narcissists (Or Somebody's Just Jealous)

via ilike/Flickr​Today in psychological studies from the New York Post, there's an intriguing exploration of how full of yourself you must be if you live in New York City. Because a person can't, just, like, move here for a job or something. Anyway, according to the Post, "There is reason to b ... More >>

Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Solange Lambert and Cosmo Salerno can't wait to take their love outside the walls of an adult home on Coney Island. But for now, they have to wait.

Drunkorexia: The New Not Eating Is Drinking

​Experts have identified the latest phenomenon affecting "thousands of women," and it has quite the catchy name. One part binge-drinking and one part anorexia, it is...drunkorexia. Bent on "staying slim" and getting drunk as quickly as possible (and spending money on booze rather than food) on ... More >>

Boozehounds More Likely to Croak at Early Age

​A team of scientists has recently given alcoholics another excuse not to seek help. Swedish researchers claim to have found a genetic link between alcoholism and premature death, according to a recently released report. Alcoholics everywhere have reacted positively to the research, since ... More >>

Soy Sausage Kills 5 at Mexican Drug Rehab Center

​Authorities say that soy sausage has killed five recovering drug addicts and made dozens more ill at a rehab center in Mexico, according to The Associated Press.