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Mental Illness Research and Treatment

Belluck, Pam. "'Memory' Therapy Leads to a Lawsuit and Big Settlement." New York Times, November 6, 1997.

Boxer, Sarah. "Feel Like Screaming? Excellent! You're In Demand." New York Times, November 1, 1997.

Hernandez, Raymond. "Pataki Proposes Curb on Releases for Mentally Ill." New York Times, November 19, 1999.

Oldendorf, William. "Splitting and Lumping." BrainWork, September-October 2001.

Harmon, Amy. "Answer, But No Cure, For a Social Disorder That Isolates Many." New York Times, April 29, 2004.

Carey, Benedict. "Shock Therapy and the Brain." Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2003.

Osborne, Lawrence. "Regional Disturbances." New York Times, May 6, 2001.

Carey, Benedict. "Who's Mentally Ill? Deciding Is Often All in the Mind." New York Times, June 12, 2005.

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Opal Petty, 86, Patient Held 51 Years Involuntarily in Texas." New York Times, March 17, 2005.

Tyre, Peg. "A Problem in the Brain." Newsweek, October 17, 2005.

Carey, Benedict. "Can Brain Scans See Depression? " New York Times, October 18, 2005.

Pfeiffer, Mary Beth. "A Death in the Box." New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2004.

Smith, Craig S. "Abuse of Electroshock Found in Turkish Mental Hospitals." New York Times, September 29, 2005.

Carey, Benedict. "Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young." New York Times, September 4, 2007.

Fritz, Mark. "A Doctor's Fight: More Forced Care for Mentally Ill." Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2006.

Kirkey, Sharon. "Scientists Try to Alter Traumatic Memories." Ottawa Citizen, December 30, 2005.

Thareja, Nidhi. "Brain Matures Late in Kids with ADHD." ABC Medical News, November 12, 2007.

Spencer, Jane. "The Next Generation of Shock Therapy." Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2005.

Kramer, Peter D. "There's Nothing Deep about Depression." New York Times Magazine, April 17, 2005.

Wang, Shirley S. "The Graying of Shock Therapy." Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2007.

Pies, Ronald. "Redefining Depression as Mere Sadness." New York Times, September 15, 2008.

Friedman, Richard A. "When All Else Fails, Blaming the Patient Often Comes Next." New York Times, October 21, 2008.

Carey, Benedict. "In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents' Genes are In Competition." New York Times, November 11, 2008.

Murr, Andrew. "The Physicist and the Torched SUVs." Newsweek, November 1, 2004: 30.

Sharkey, Joe. "You're Not Bad, You're Sick. It's In The Book." New York Times, September 28, 1997.

Begley, Sharon. "Happiness: Enough Already." Newsweek, February 11, 2008.

Dreifus, Claudia. "Using Imaging to Look at Changes in the Brain." New York Times, September 16, 2008.

Carey, Benedict. "Psychoanalytic Therapy Wins Backing." New York Times, October 1, 2008.

Eviatar, Daphne. "If Sanity Is Forced on a Defendant, Who Is on Trial?" New York Times, June 21, 2003.

Liptak, Adam. "Court Allows Making Inmate Sane Enough for Execution." New York Times, February 11, 2003.

von Zielbauer, Paul. "Report Says Many Inmates in Isolation are Mentally Ill." New York Times, October 22, 2003.

Mansnerus, Laura. "Unfinished Sentences: Keeping Prisoners as Patients; Questions Rise Over Imprisoning Sex Offenders Past Their Terms." New York Times, November 17, 2003.

Sóuter, Ericka. "Possessed!" People, September 26, 2005.

 

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