Charles Barber

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Bizarrely, it was World War II that brought psychiatry, and more specifically, psychoanalysis, into the mainstream of American culture.

How Freud Conquered America, Then Lost It

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Despite stunning advances in neuroscience and bold claims of revelations from new brain-scan technologies, our knowledge about the brain’s role in human behavior is still primitive.

The Brain: A Mindless Obsession

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Leaders who have mental illness or have experienced periods of mental abnormality are often better able to handle crises than their mentally healthy peers.

The Lunacy to Lead

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Charles Barber finds American Therapy "thoroughly researched and elegantly organized," but says it does not quite capture the "fascinating dialectic" between "our exterior and interior landscapes."

America on the Couch

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All surgeons must devise a “way in” to their operation—choosing the entry point and the methodology for each complex procedure. 

Doctoring History

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"The best predictors of adult success and well-being are a childhood in which one feels accepted and nurtured; an empathic coping style at ages 20 through 35; and warm adult relationships."

What a decades-long Harvard study tells us about mental health

Shadd Maruna

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The mass warehousing of convicts is a sign of America’s faltering belief in second chances. Considering how individuals atone for their crimes can help us restore rehabilitation as an ideal.