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For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?
Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.
In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.Â
Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?
This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.
What constitutes a good death? On end-of-life care and assisted suicide.
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