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In his new book, An Anthropologist On Mars, neurologist Oliver Sacks profiles seven people with unusual neurological disorders that show bow our brains construct our individual worlds. One of the most remarkable is an account of a visit with Carl Bennett,...

IN 1987, I WAS WORKING AS A psychologist in a 500-prisoner, maximum-security prison rising from a cornfield outside a large Midwest city. I was assigned to a special restrictive tier the only one of its kind in the country housing 22 men, all of whom...

ONE UNARGUABLE INNOVATION of the so-called DSM revolution was the inclusion in the manual of non-medical assessment through the five different axes, or "domains of information" that transcended strictly behavioral symptoms. The goal for DSM-III, according...

NOT LONG AFTER GREGORY WAS finally diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at the age of 7 when he was having 10 to 20 uncontrolled episodes of rage a day we began the search for appropriate medication It hasn't been easy: Very few of the drugs we and other...

Hollywood has created a new genre of biopics about the joys of perpetual adolescenceNO ONE'S LIFE IS A SIMPLE STORY. WE ALL LIVE AN ALMOST infinite succession of stories, some tragic, some comic. We are all both hero and villain, victim and victimizer....

IT'S MID-MORNING IN MY THERAPY OFFICE IN BELLEVUE, Washington, and Elaine, the principal of my son's progressive private school, phones me out of breath, angry and exhausted. She tells me to come at once and get Gregory, my wild boy. It is the kind...