
The Best of the News 2000-2008, Topical Order
Addictions:
Los Angeles Times, 4/7/2000- The Drug Dilemma
New York Times, 2/5/2001- Gritty Portrayal Of the Abyss From a Survivor
New York Times, 4/24/2001- 'Masters' Show How to Get High on Life Without Abusing Alcohol
New York Times, 7/10/2001- A Ravaged Musical Prodigy At a Crossroads With Drugs
New York Times Magazine, 7/29/2001- The Alchemy of OxyContin
Washington Post, 8/27/2001- Hustling For Souls
New York Times, 1/29/2002- Marijuana's Effects: More Than Munchies
New York Times Magazine, 2/10/2002- Staying Clean: Does Rehab Really Work?
New York Times, 2/19/2002- Scientists Examine How 'Social Rewards' Hijack the Brain
Washington Post, 2/19/2002- A Growing List of Drugs to Help Smokers Quit
New York Times, 2/19/2002- Pulling Back the Curtain of Smoke
Hartford Courant, 10/20/2002- Small Town, Big-Time Heron Use (5 article series)
Washington Post, 10/24/2003- After Detox, The Hardest Part of Treatment Begins
Ann Arbor Observer, 11/30/2003- Poisoned Lives: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
New York Times Magazine, 2/6/2005- My Addicted Son
Washington Post, 3/29/2005- 46 Million Still Smoke
The New Yorker, 5/23/2005- Crystal Meth & HIV: Even Higher Risks
New York Times, 10/19/2005- Temptation to Gamble Is Near for Troops Overseas
Hartford Courant, 11/27/2005- Smart, Successful, Addicted, He Stole Thousands
New York Times, 12/5/2005- Instant Millions Can't Halt Winner's Grim Slide
Los Angeles Times, 12/30/2005- Internet Creates New Group of Sexual Addicts
New York Times Magazine, 6/25/2006- An Anti-Addiction Pill?
New York Times, 9/19/2006- Democrat, Republican and a Bond of Addiction
New York Times, 10/12/2006- Bodies in Motion, Clean and Sober
New York Times, 10/18/2006 Man is Convicted of Murder in Drunken Driving Case
New York Times Magazine, 1/21/2007- Looking for My Father in Las Vegas
New York Times, 11/4/2007- Staying Loyal to a Killer, From His Trial to Their Arrest
New York Times Magazine, 7/20/2008- Me and My Girls
Book & Film Reviews:
New York Times Book Review, 5/7/2000- A Book Review of "Of Two Minds"
New York Times Book Review, 1/27/2002- "The Truth Will Set You Free" by Alice Miller
New York Times, 4/19/2003- I Feel, Therefore I Am
New York Times Book Review, 11/14/2004- The Truth About Drug Companies
New York Times, 3/19/2008- A Brief History of Anxiety
Child & Adolescent Mental Health:
Washington Post, 3/26/2000- Autism's New Face
New York Times, 3/28/2000-Experts Offer Fresh Insights Into the Mind of the Grieving Child
New York Times, 4/18/2000- Growing Up on a Ritalin-Prozac Cocktail: Is This What Ricky Needs?
New York Times, 4/9/2000- Fury, Not Facts, in the Battle Over Childhood Behavior
New York Times Magazine, 6/18/2000- The Little Professor Syndrome
Los Angles Times, 3/12/2001- Advances in Treatment Give Hope to Parents of Children with Autism
Los Angles Times, 3/12/2001- Parents Look to Umproven Therapies to Solve Autism
Washington Post, 3/18/2001- The Trouble With ADHD
New York Times, 3/25/2001- 'The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Hartford Courant, 5/31/2001- Explosive Children, Desperate Parents
Chicago Sun-Times, 9/7/2002- Illinois Reopens Probe of Suicide at Maryville
Chicago Sun-Times, 9/8/2002- Smyth's Clout Has Grown With Maryville
Chicago Sun-Times, 9/9/2002- Blunt-Talking Professor Stirred up Maryville Plot
New York Times, 11/19/2002- A Boy, a Mother And a Rare Map of Autism's World
Los Angeles Times, 12/6/2002- Resilience: Thriving Despite It All
New York Times, 4/13/2003- Autism: Nudging Toward Normal
New York Times, 2/26/2005- As Autistic Children Grow, So Does Social Gap
New York Times, 3/24/2005- Signs of Danger Were Missed in Troubled Teen's Life
New York Times, 10/22/2006- Living With Love, Chaos and Haley
New York Times, 11/11/2006- Psychiatrists Often Disagree About Child Diagnosis
New York Times, 12/22/2006- Parenting as Therapy for Child's Mental Disorders
New York Times Magazine, 2/18/2007- Siblings of Autistic Children, A Case Study
New York Times, 11/5/2007- Foster Children at Risk, and an Opportunity Lost
Criminal Sexual Misconduct:
New York Times Magazine, 11/19/2000- How Do You Cure a Sex Addict?
New York Times, 11/17/2003- Questions Rise Over Imprisoning Sex Offenders Past Their Terms
New York Times, 11/25/2003- Lawyer for Church Says He Hid Own Sexual Abuse
New York Times, 7/1/2004- Daughter Says Father's Confessional Book Didn't Confess Molestation
New York Times Magazine, 1/23/2005- The Making of a Molester
New York Times, 12/19/2005- Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
New York Times, 3/4/2007- Mandated Treatment for Sex Offenders Often Fails
New York Times Magazine, 7/22/2007- Budding Pedophile Or a Kid With Boundary Problems?
Domestic Violence:
Washington Post, 3/30/2001- In Baltimore, a Victim Becomes a Criminal
Los Angeles Times, 1/29/2002- Domestic Violence Behind the Shoji Screen
New York Times, 11/17/2002- Fierce Entanglements
Eating Disorders:
New York Times, 6/11/2002- Anorexia Strategy: Family As Doctor
New York Times Magazine, 9/8/2002- A Secret Society of the Starving
Newsweek, 12/5/2005- Fighting Anorexia: No One Is to Blame
Newsweek, 12/5/2005- A Father Describes His Daughter's Journey
Emotional Disorders:
New York Times, 3/21/2000- Finding Hope Amid Despair in Treating Compulsive Disorders
New York Times, 5/21/2000- Julie Krone's Race Against Depression
New York Times, 6/25/2000- Depression Comes Out of Hiding
New York Times, 11/6/2000- Comforting Lessons in Arranging Life's Details
Washington Post, 3/20/2001- Isolation, Paranoia, Despair
New York Times Magazine, 8/22/2004- Did Antidepressants Depress Japan?
New York Times, 11/16/2004- Oh, Fine, You're Right. I'm Passive-Aggressive
Los Angeles Times, 2/25/2005- How Shy Is Too Shy?
Los Angeles Times, 10/17/2005- Depression's Machismo Mask
New York Times Magazine, 4/2/2006- A Depression Switch?
New York Times, 3/19/2008- A Brief History of Anxiety
Family & Marital Issues:
Chicago Tribune, 7/2/2000- Adult Children of Divorce Approach the Altar Warily
New York Times, 12/16/2000- Judith Wallerstein: Resolute Adversary of Divorce
New York Times, 4/21/2001- Another Academic Salvo From a 'Mommy Wars' Veteran
New York Times, 4/22/2001- Science, Studies and Motherhood
ABC News, 1/31/2002- Rethinking The Rules of Parenting
New York Times, 3/26/2002- Two Constrasting Portraits of Children of Divorce
New York Times, 10/23/2002- Good & Bad Marriage, Boon & Bane to Health
New York Times Magazine, 5/8/2005- The Father's Crusade
New York Times, 2/28/2006- Beyond Rivalry, A Hidden World of Sibling Violence
New York Times Magazine, 8/12/2007 Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Forensic Psychology:
New York Times, 2/12/2000- Behind a Murder Suspect's Cool Facade, Emotional Havoc
New York Times, 3/23/2000- Insanity Defense Fails for Man Who Threw Woman Onto Track
New York Times, 3/23/2000- Jury Focused on Law, Not the Mental Health System
New York Times, 4/9/2000- They Threaten, Seethe and Unhinge, then Kill In Quanity
New York Times, 4/9/2000- How Youngest Killers Differ: Peer Support
New York Times, 4/10/2000- The Well-Marked Roads to Homicidal Rage
New York Times, 4/12/2000- Man and His Son's Slayer Unite to Ask Why
New York Times, 4/16/2000- 'I'd Never Really Hurt Anybody': Perched on the Razor's Edge of Anger
New York Times, 7/31/2000- Voices in His Head Muted, A Killer Rejoins the World
New York Times, 9/6/2000- Trying to Prevent the Next Killer Rampage
Washington Post, 1/23/2001- Capitol Shooter's Untreated Madness Fuels Legal and Ethical Debate
New York Times, 4/23/2002- A Psychiatrist's-Eye View of Murder & Insanity
New York Times, 4/13/2003- Vincent Gigante, Not Crazy After All
New York Times Magazine, 11/16/2003- Should John Hinckley Go Free?
New York Times, 2/8/2005- For the Worst of Us, The Diagnosis May Be 'Evil'
Hartford Courant, 12/18/2005- Contours of Evil
New York Times Magazine, 3/11/2007- The Brain on the Stand
Gay, Lesbian & Gender Issues:
The New Yorker, 5/23/2005- Crystal Meth & HIV: Even Higher Risks
General Human Behavior:
Washington Post, 11/2/1999- Scientists Probe Origin of Emotions
New York Times, 11/2/1999- New Clues As to Why We Dream
New York Times, 8/15/2000- Seeing Pessimism's Place in a Smiley-Faced World
Chicago Tribune, 3/19/2001- Stressed-Out Society Gives Birth to Rage
New York Times, 1/22/2002-The Urge to Punish Cheats Isn't Merely Vengeance
New York Times Magazine, 2/3/2002- The Trouble With Self-Esteem
New York Times, 9/17/2002- In Nature vs. Nurture, a Voice for Nature
New York Times, 10/1/2002- Deflating Self-Esteem's Role in Society's Ills
New York Times, 7/18/2004- Dreams: Inward Bound
New York Times Magazine, 1/22/2006- The Animal Self
New York Times, 6/15/2006- That Wild Streak? Maybe It Runs in the Family
New York Times, 2/3/2007- A Study of Memory Looks at Fact and Fiction
New York Times Magazine, 7/8/2007- The Gregarious Brain
New York Times, 10/23/2007- An Active Purposeful Machine That Come Out at Night to Play
Major Mental Illness:
New York Times, 10/15/2000- Vanity and a Small Voice Made Him Do It
Denver Post, 11/18/2000- Quieting the Voices Inside
Washington Post, 1/12/2001- At the Top of My Game
Ann Arbor News, 1/28/2001- Man Accused of Student's Homicide, Had Been In and Out of Treatment
Los Angeles Times, 2/19/2001- Still, the Stigma of Schizophrenia Remains
Washington Post, 4/16/2001- A Life Dedicated to Helping the Mentally Ill
Boston Globe, 4/17/2001- Treatment Revolution
Washington Post, 9/12/2001- A Child Endangered, Without a Lifeline
Washington Post, 10/23/2001- Second Opinion: On the Front Lines of Mental Health
New York Times, 2/5/2002- A Rare Day: The Movies Get Mental Illness Right
Washington Post, 2/12/2002- 'Beautiful'--but Not Rare--Recovery from Schizophrenia
New York Times, 2/24/2002- "Gracefully Insane: The Rise & Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/19/2002- Woman's Triumphs Break Myths About Schizophrenia
New York Times, 3/31/2002- Where Postmodern Art and Schizophrenia Intersect
New York Times, 4/28/2002- For Mentally Ill, Death and Misery
New York Times Magazine, 4/28/2002- Who Was Responsible For Elizabeth Shin?
New York Times, 4/29/2002- Here Life Is Squalor and Chaos
New York Times, 4/30/2002- Voiceless, Defenseless And a Source of Cash
New York Times, 6/4/2002- Connecting Depression and Artistry
San Francisco Chronicle, 8/5/2002- Psychiatric Outcast Ponders Parasitic Mental Illness
Ann Arbor Observer, 8/31/2002- Life, Death and Madness
Washington Post, 9/24/2002- Bipolar Drugs: Easy Rx, Hard to Take
Boston Globe, 1/5/2003- A Mother's Deadly Struggle For Her Sanity
New York Times, 5/6/2003- Experts See Mind's Voices in New Light
Detroit News, 7/20/2003- Michigan Mental Care System Sows Web of Despair
Detroit News, 7/20/2003- Ex-Governor Engler Accelerated Closure of Michigan's Mental Institutions
Detroit News, 7/20/2003- Caring For the Mentally Ill: A Michigan Chronology
Detroit News, 7/21/2003- Budget Troubles Force Detroit Agencies to Juggle Mentally Ill
Associated Press, 1/17/2004- Many Knew Daniel Was a Troubled Boy, But No One Helped
Baltimore Sun, 5/14/2004- Depression Research Finds Mental Health Experts Optimistic
Ann Arbor News, 6/27/2004- Depression: Climbing Out of the Dark
New York Times Magazine, 10/31/2004- A Death in the Box
New York Times, 2/28/2005- In City's Jails, Missed Signals Open Way to Season of Suicides
New York Times, 3/22/2005- Hypomanic? Absolutely. But Oh So Productive
Washington Post, 12/21/2005- Sudden Shift in Moods
New York Times, 5/23/2006- A Career That Has Mirrored Psychiatry's Path
New York Times Magazine, 3/25/2007- Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head?
Boston Globe, 6/8/2007- Mental Patients Find Understanding in Peer-Led Therapy
The New Yorker, 10/29/2007- Larry David and Schizophrenia
New York Times Magazine, 7/6/2008- The Urge To End It All
New York Times Magazine, 9/14/2008- The Bipolar Puzzle
Managed Care:
Detroit News, 6/1/2002- Why Managed Care Failed
New York Times Magazine, 9/15/2002- Pete Domenici and Parity in Insurance Coverage
Miscellaneous Topics:
Los Angeles Times, 5/1/2000- The Science of Passion
New York Times Magazine, 9/17/2000- Speak, Memory
New York Times, 2/20/2001- What's In an Inkblot? Some Say, Not Much
New York Times, 2/20/2001- Samson Diagnosis: Antisocial Personality Disorder
Los Angeles Times, 6/24/2001- Tourette Syndrome: A Private Struggle
Washington Post, 7/15/2001- His Brother's Keeper: David Kaczynski
Washington Post, 1/14/2002- John Walker's Restless Quest Is Strange Odyssey
New York Times, 7/7/2002- Portfolios Depressed, Traders Seek Therapy
New York Times, 5/5/2003- So Much for the Madman Theory
New York Times, 4/29/2004- An Answer, Not a Cure, for a Social Disorder
New York Times, 5/9/2004- The Disability Movement Turns to Brains
Boston Globe, 6/13/2004- McSorley's Death Recalls a Life Long Lost
New York Times Magazine, 6/20/2004- Band on the Couch
New York Times Magazine, 7/18/2004- Adult ADHD: Office Messes
New York Times, 11/9/2004- Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex
Los Angeles Times, 11/17/2004- The Kinsey Effect
New York Times, 11/16/2005- A Lobotomy That He Says Didn't Touch His Soul
New York Times, 11/22/2005- This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis
New York Times Magazine, 2/5/2006- Looking for the Lie
New York Times, 12/21/2006- Saying Yes to Mess
New York Times, 1/7/2007- Happiness 101
New York Times, 3/16/2007- Gunman Had Pent-Up Hostility and Resume of Failures
New York Times, 3/17/2007- Gunman Saw Himself as Slow to Anger, E-Mail Says
Professional Issues:
New York Times, 6/6/2000- Sex and the Therapist: Views of the Couch
New York Times, 1/16/2001- Patient Suicide Brings Therapists Lasting Pain
New York Times, 7/8/2003- Doctors' Toughest Diagnosis: Own Mental Health
New York Times, 4/26/2005- A Healing Journey, From Harvard to the Homeless Shelters
New York Times, 3/6/2008- What's in a Chair?
Psychoanalysis:
New York Times, 11/2/1999- 100 Years Ago, a Book Ignites the Study of the Mind
New York Times, 11/2/1999- New Clues As to Why We Dream
New York Times Book Review, 2/27/2000- Freud's Second Thoughts
New York Times, 3/25/2000- Getting Alienated Freudians to Associate
Los Angeles Times, 4/6/2000- Freud: Conflict & Culture
New York Times, 6/10/2000- New Translation Aims to Free Freud From His Disciples' Obsessions
New York Times, 11/4/2000- Returning to Freud for Help With the Riddles of Philosophy
New York Times, 2/17/2001- Freud, Influential Yet Unloved
New York Times, 3/14/2002- Authors as Patients: Analysts Read Between Their Lines
New York Times Book Review- 12/22/2002- Analyzing Freud
New York Times, 1/28/2003- Even in the Age of Prozac, Some Still Prefer the Couch
New York Times Magazine, 7/13/2003- The Literary Freud
New York Times, 1/24/2006- A New Diagnostic Guide With a Touch of Personality
Newsweek, 3/27/2006- Freud in Our Midst
New York Times, 7/3/2007- The 'Big Dreams' Are the Threads of Our Lives
Psychotherapy
Los Angeles Times, 1/18/2000- Are We Better Yet?
New York Times, 5/1/2001- Opening A Window On Therapy
New York Times, 5/29/2001- Therapists Reveal Their New Obsession: 'The Sopranos'
New York Times, 7/4/2001- In Psychotherapy, Mundane Remarks Speak Volumes About the Personality
New York Times, 12/29/2001- Therapists Go Crazy for One in 'Sopranos'
New York Times, 12/11/2001- Digging Up A Disorder From A Mess
New York Times, 1/1/2002- Therapists Redraw Line on Self-Disclosure
New York Times, 1/8/2002- A Diagnosis Not Exactly in the Book
New York Times, 2/26/2002- One by One, A Family Is Treated
New York Times, 7/30/2002- The Mother Often Stays In the Picture
New York Times, 8/27/2002- A Rebel Psychiatrist Calls Out to His Profession
New York Times, 8/27/2002- Like Drugs, Talk Therapy Can Change Brain Chemistry
New York Times, 8/31/2002- A Couch for Authors In Need of One
Washington Post, 9/1/2002- Doctors Consider Diagnosis for 'Ill' Relationships
Psychotropic Medications:
Boston Globe, 5/7/2000- Prozac Revisited: As Drug Gets Remade, Concerns About Suicides Surface
Boston Globe, 5/15/2000- Doctor Lashes Out in Prozac Battle
ABC News, 5/24/2000- Interview with Dr. Joseph Glenmullen: Author of Prozac Backlash
New York Times, 7/18/2000- Once Again, Prozac Takes Center Stage, In Furor
Washington Post, 8/4/2001- Prozac's Reign Ends But Legacy Endures
Washington Post, 5/7/2002- Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat
New York Times, 6/25/2002- Can the Placebo Treat Depression? That Depends
New York Times, 6/30/2002- Antidepressants Lose 'Miracle Drug' Label
Washington Post, 9/24/2002- Bipolar Drugs: Easy Rx, Hard to Take
New York Times, 11/17/2002- Preschool Meds
Boston Globe, 11/25/2002- Use of Psychotropic Drug Soars Despite Controversy
Boston Globe, 12/15/2002- Drug Firms and Doctors: The Offers Pour In
New York Times, 5/20/2003- Leading Drugs for Psychosis Come Under New Scrutiny
New York Times, 4/6/2004- The Altered Human Is Already Here
New York Times Book Review, 11/14/2004- The Truth About Drug Companies
New York Times Magazine, 11/21/2004- The Antidepressant Dilemma
New York Times, 11/16/2005- Young, Assured and Playing Pharmacist to Friends
New York Times Magazine, 5/6/2007- Self-Nonmedication
New York Times, 6/3/2007- After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay
New York Times, 6/3/2007- A Battle With Depression and Suicidal Tendencies
New York Times Magazine, 6/17/2007- Doctor or Drug Pusher?
Trauma & Recovery
Los Angeles Times, 1/15/2001- Healing Body and Spirit of Rape Victims
Houston Chronicle, 7/22/2001- Student Raped by Coach Rebuilding her Life
New York Times, 9/18/2001- Stress From Attacks Will Chase Some Into the Depths of Their Minds and Stay
New York Times, 11/6/2001- Traumatic Moments End, But the Reminders Linger
New York Times Magazine, 11/11/2001- Mending a Psyche Damaged by Sept. 11
Washington Post, 11/20/2001- What Calamity Does to Families Is Complicated
New York Times, 11/20/2001- Treatment Can Ease Lingering Trauma of Sept. 11
New York Times, 12/5/2001- In a Stressed New York City, No Room at the Bar
Los Angeles Times, 1/9/2002- Emotionally Scarred for Life by Trauma
New York Times, 9/10/2002- When Grief Takes Hold of the Body
New York Times, 9/11/2002- Mental Health: The Profession Tests Its Limits
New York Times, 11/3/2005- For '73 Rape Victim, DNA Revivies Horror, Too
New York Times, 11/4/2005- 32 Years Later, Rape Victim Confronts Attack Suspect
New York Times, 2/28/2006- Beyond Rivalry, A Hidden World of Sibling Violence
New York Times Magazine, 4/30/2006- A Question of Resilience
New York Times Magazine, 5/28/2006- Bringing PTSD Back Home
Treatment Approaches:
New York Times, 1/11/2000- Pragmatist Embodies His No-Nonsense Therapy
Boston Globe, 4/23/2000- Healing Arts
New York Times, 5/7/2000- What Do We Talk About When We Are Paying Someone to Listen
New York Times Magazine, 5/7/2000- Walking Toward Mindfulness: Where Meditation is Going
Washington Post, 6/6/2000- She was Shocked
Washington Post, 6/6/2000- Therapy: Positive and Negative Charges
New York Times, 1/23/2001- A No-Drug Approach to Wellness
Los Angeles Times, 2/4/2001- Seeking Child's Love, a Child's Life is Lost
New York Times, 3/6/2001- A Critic Takes On Psychiatric Dogma, Loudly
New York Times, 10/28/2001- The Healing Ways of Dr. Dog
Washington Post, 10/30/2001- EMDR, in the Eye of the Storm
New York Times, 1/16/2002- At the Cradle Cafe, Therapy for the Troubled Mind
Los Angeles Times, 3/27/2002- Trauma Therapy's New Focus
Boston Globe, 4/3/2002- Priest Treatment Unfolds in Costly, Secretive World
New York Times, 4/27/2002- Finding Faith's Place in Psychiatric Treatment
New York Times, 7/30/2002- A Protected Space, Where Art Comes Calling
Washington Post, 9/3/2002- Cognitive Therapy: A Change of Mind
Washington Post, 12/24/2002- The Happy Heretic
New York Times, 1/15/2004- Group Therapy Helps Ease Burden of AIDS in Uganda
New York Times, 3/30/2004- A New Era in Treating Imaginary Ills
New York Times, 3/30/2004- Doctors, Too, Have Fears
New York Times, 6/8/2004- Pills or Talk Therapy?
New York Times, 7/11/2004- The Shrinking of the American Band
New York Times, 7/13/2004- A Novel Therapy Helps Tortured Souls
Time Magazine, 2/13/2006- Happiness Isn't Normal
Los Angeles Times, 3/23/2006- Art Therapy: The Healing Canvas
The New Yorker, 10/29/2007- Larry David and Schizophrenia
Women & Mental Health
New York Times, 3/30/2002- Listening for the Voices of Women

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