November 27, 2015 Postpartum Depression-In Fathers Postpartum depression is well-known in women who have given birth. As many as 15 percent of new mothers may experience all the symptoms of major depression in the months following a delivery. These symptoms can include low mood, low energy, tearfulness, altered sleep patterns, changes in appetite, inability to concentrate, low self-esteem. They can even include suicidal thinking or bizarre and false beliefs called delusions, which are a form of psychosis.
November 27, 2015 Peaceful Non-Cooperation With Socialism Great leaders and great political movements have a lot in common with the finest therapists and best psychotherapy_
November 27, 2015 An Open Letter to Ryan O'Neal Just when I thought Joe Jackson (Michael's "father") might be my poster boy for reprehensible parenting, you've come along to challenge him for the honor. According to media reports, you tried to pick up your own daughter Tatum at Farrah Fawcett's funeral, with the one-two punch, "You have a drink? You have a car?"
November 27, 2015 Barack Obama and the Psychology of Race President Obama lost something invaluable last week when he weighed in on the arrest of his friend, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., saying the Cambridge police acted stupidly. He lost the presumption that he is colorblind and embraces all races and both genders equally.
November 27, 2015 Psychiatry's Lesson for Universal Health Care As President Obama tries to remake the American health care system, the gutting of psychiatry by insurance company policies and other administrative forces is a good lesson in what to avoid.
November 27, 2015 Crimes of Passion The murders of Arturo Gatti, possibly by his 23-year-old ex-stripper wife, and of Steve McNair by his 20-year-old lover, may reflect yet another sign that more Americans than we know -especially younger Americans - are losing their sense of self and, with it, their psychological and moral bearings.
November 27, 2015 Michael Jackson's Second Death Michael Jackson's sudden death by cardiac arrest is less shocking than the slow, but steady demise of his soul, which turned him into a music machine fueled by addictions to drugs, money, possessions, fame and plastic surgery. As my friend and fellow journalist Josh Resnek has remarked, Jackson's body died at 50; the rest of him died much younger.
November 27, 2015 Jon & Kate's 8 Need Legal Guardians Jon and Kate Gosselin are splitting up - for real, as in, getting divorced.
November 27, 2015 The Truth About the Pregnant Blogger's Lies For months, Becca Beushausen, a 26-year-old woman from Mokena, Ill., was known on her blog only as "B" or "April's Mom." She had become the darling of those who defend the unborn's right to life by blogging about her commitment to give birth to a child with a rare disorder called holoprosencephaly, a condition that would cause her baby girl to be born with malformations of her brain and face that would ultimately prove fatal.