For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice.
Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you’d expect of a psychopath.
Do not go to that place of horror with elevated spirits, and gay hearts, for death is there! Justice and judgment are there! The power of government, displayed in its most awful form, is there . . . T...
Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she’ll say, ‘I can’t. My eyes are swollen,
And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in i...
Which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges. So
They saw how well behaved I was, and decided it meant I could only behave well in the environment of a psychiatric hospital and it proved I was mad. I
The madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.
Predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, sex and violence to control others and to satisfy their own selfish needs. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as th...
Partners in a lobbying firm with a client list that included a great many murderous dictators. Like
Name. It was truly a revolution in psychiatry, and a gold rush for drug companies, who suddenly had hundreds of new disorders they could invent medications for, millions of new patients they could tre...
You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal.
White supremacists were thrilled by Bannon’s appointment. One of them declared on a radio show hosted by David Duke, the former KKK leader, Something astonishing has happened. We appear to have taken...
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer....
This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack — fanning the flames of the divisive chaos from which Trump, the Twitter candidate, had risen.
This is bizarre, Dan said. I find it really strange—the way you’re approaching this. You must be one of the very few people who have chosen to come on Twitter and use their own name as their Twitter n...
The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was deceptive conduct of the grossest kind; the idea of a psychological profile being admissible as proof of identity in any circ...
Terrible things had been done in Haiti in his name. He had profoundly altered Haitian society for three years, set it spiraling frantically in the wrong direction, destroying the lives of thousands, t...
So after all of Joey's talk of science and preparation, I was imagining the corned-beef contest to be somehow more graceful and balletic. But as Shea counts down to zero and the eating begins, what I...