Stanton's Blog

• How American Psychiatry Misled the World and Ruined Mental Health Worldwide. Life Process Program Blog June 20, 2022.
• Invasion of the Recovery Body Snatchers, Pods Win. August 22, 2011.
• Another Case of Denial -- or AA Run Amok? August 20, 2011.
• The End of Religion? Been to America Lately? August 18, 2011.
• Lovers Who Kill Themselves. August 5, 2011.
• Values and Addiction: Gawker Says Leave Drunken Mayor Alone! July 31, 2011.
• Topsy Turvy - the Death of Jeret Peterson. July 27, 2011.
• The Ballad of Barry and Johnny: True Love Gone Bad. July 26, 2011.
• Who's Responsible for Amy's Death? July 23, 2011.
• America Is Sinking: Told You So. July 22, 2011.
• Why Medicine for Addiction Will Make Our Problems Worse. July 20, 2011.
• How to Withstand a Parliamentary Inquiry. July 19, 2011.
• Betty Ford Isn't a Role Model for My Daughters–Sorry. July 15, 2011.
• The Meaning of Addiction: Is Eating Addictive? July 13, 2011.
• News Item: Top Entertainment Figure and Ball Player Not Alcoholics or Addicts! July 13, 2011.
• The Top Ten Problems with the "New" Medical Approach to Addiction. July 11, 2011.
• Psychology's Greatest Spokesperson Can't Save Us: Why We're Unpopular. July 8, 2011.
• NBC's "Eyewash Nation". July 5, 2011.
• Harm Reduction: The Only Realistic Approach to Substance Use and Recovery. July 1, 2011.
• The Unusually Sensible Lindsay Lohan Judge. June 30, 2011.
• The Future of the American Mind (Hint: Nurse Ratched Wins). June 28, 2011.
• Warning, Ladies - Life on the Lam Isn't a Bed of Roses. June 26, 2011.
• Is Food Addictive? (Who wants to know?) June 25, 2011.
• Disputing the Modern Mental Illness Model in America - A Call for Censorship. June 23, 2011.
• Are Addiction and Mental Illness Really Brain Diseases? June 16, 2011.
• Why Anthony Weiner Is Not a Sex Addict. June 16, 2011.
• Rehab Stinks for Weiner, but It's Great for "Real" Addicts. June 15, 2011.
• The Psychiatric Revolution Is Over. June 13, 2011.
• Why Have Married People's Yearnings Run Amok? June 13, 2011.
• Is Newt Seeking Sex, Power, or What? June 11, 2011.
• Dear Mick and Keith, You'll Get Busted Watching Children Play. June 10, 2011.
• The Anthony Weiner "Illness:" That Old Disease Got Me In Its Spell. June 9, 2011.
• Disrespecting Your Audience: Meetings Without Purpose. June 9, 2011.
• On the Future of Addiction. June 8, 2011.
• When AAers Strike! June 4, 2011.
• Why Barack Obama Loves the War on Drugs. June 3, 2011.
• Maid (Made) Service in NYC. May 31, 2011.
• Why Do We Now Have a Prescription Drug Abuse Problem? May 30, 2011.
• How the Disease Theory of Alcoholism Killed Mary Pendery, and Harm Reduction Could Have Saved Her. May 30, 2011.
• Worst Person in the World! May 29, 2011.
• "I Am Powerless Over My Anger". May 27, 2011.
• The Six Worst Things About "Midnight in Paris": Why Woody Allen Isn't a Great Artist. May 26, 2011.
• The Enigma of Dr. Vaillant - George and Me. May 25, 2011.
• On the 'Honor' of Being Named One of America's Leading Addiction Experts. May 23, 2011.
• The Three Things Famous People Most Often Lie About. May 23, 2011.
• Patrick Kennedy Discusses His Brain, Because He Fears Discussing Himself. May 20, 2011.
• Abusing Women R Us: We LOVE the "Entitlementer". May 19, 2011.
• What If Our News Is Being Written by "Law & Order" Scriptwriters? May 18, 2011.
• Au Contraire: Satoshi Kanazawa IS Evolutionary Psychology. May 17, 2011.
• Is Maria Stupid? Or Did Arnold Break the Kennedy Family's Golden Rule for Cheating? May 17, 2011.
• Who Was a Scarier Presidential Candidate: That French Rape Guy or Mike Huckabee? May 16, 2011.
• Jesse James Resents Sandra Bullock, and He Should. May 16, 2011.
• The Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden. May 15, 2011.
• Sex Lives of Republicans, II: John Ensign in Love and Heat. May 13, 2011.
• The New Newt Hates Sex -- and He's Got the Wife to Prove It! May 12, 2011.
• Is Gambling Addictive? What do addicted gamblers look like? May 12, 2011.
• Barack Obama: The Bedrock Confidence of Mr. Inside-Mr. Outside. May 9, 2011.
• Outsiderism, Self-Esteem, and Suicide: Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress. May 8, 2011.
• We Can't Handle the Truth - Give Us Good Narratives. May 5, 2011.
• On the "Honor" of Being Selected One of the Most Influential Addiction Experts in America. May 4, 2011.
• Why Do We Lie in Wars? You Tell Me. May 4, 2011.
• The Bin Laden Story Isn't True. May 3, 2011.
• The Meaning of Bin Laden's Death. May 2, 2011.
• Don't Blame Me! - Alcohol is the only way to prevent Alzheimer's. May 1, 2011.
• We Don't Need No Stinkin' Birth Certificates: For Many, Obama CAN'T Be American. April 30, 2011.
• Bullying Works: Why People Cower Before Donald Trump. April 28, 2011.
• Americans Hate Their Work Lives. April 25, 2011.
• Bully Boy Trump. April 25, 2011.
• Are Humans Still Progressing? (and if not, are you worried?) April 22, 2011.
• Obama's Search for his Mother. April 21, 2011.
• Overcoming Abuse: Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade Recipe. April 20, 2011.
• Finally: Obama to Eliminate Narcotic Abuse! April 20, 2011.
• Addiction: Measuring the Brain vs. Watching the Human. April 19, 2011.
• What Is the Toughest Withdrawal to Endure? April 14, 2011.
• The Secret of Dr. Drew's Success. April 13, 2011.
• The Downside to Celebrating Mental Illness. April 5, 2011.
• Why I'm Better than You - You Would Have Supported the Internment of Japanese-Americans. April 4, 2011.
• Saying Bad Things About Booze -- Propaganda as Science. April 1, 2011.
• Addiction Wars: Meaning and Purpose v. Disease. March 29, 2011.
• Are Hollywood Stars More or Less Healthy Than They Used to Be? March 28, 2011.
• America, the New Banana Republic - Whoever's In Is Thrown Out. March 28, 2011.
• Elizabeth Taylor and Angelina Jolie - Goddesses from Different Eras. March 24, 2011.
• Chris Brown's Redemption: Thank God Anger Management Works! March 23, 2011.
• Pity the Unhappy Rich! Not... March 21, 2011.
• Tribute to Alan Marlatt. March 17, 2011.
• Living and Dying With and Without Harm Reduction. March 17, 2011.
• What I Have Learned About Drinking from PT Blogs - The Quiz. March 16, 2011.
• Three Actressing Tour de Forces. March 15, 2011.
• Bullying Is as American as Apple Pie. March 14, 2011.
• When a Brilliant Woman Fails at Her Marriage - and Her Memoir. March 7, 2011.
• Anatomy of Gabrielle Hamilton's Loveless Marriage. March 6, 2011.
• Mormons, Sex, God, and America. March 4, 2011.
• A More Effective Way to Get Through to Charlie Sheen and Other Addicts. March 2, 2011.
• Theories of Charlie Sheen. March 1, 2011.
• Franco and Sheen Are Addicted to Themselves. February 28, 2011.
• Speaking About Charlie. February 27, 2011.
• Robin Room for King! February 27, 2011.
• The Best Prevention Research Tells Us Harm Reduction Is the Best We Can Hope For. February 26, 2011.
• Is Government Dictating What People Put in Their Bodies a Violation of Personal Liberty? February 25, 2011.
• Chickens Roosting -- from Wisconsin Power Grab to Gas Prices. February 25, 2011.
• Americans Like to Think that Rich, Successful People Suffer: The Deadly Sin of Envy. February 25, 2011.
• Americans' Rage Against Death. February 24, 2011.
• Addiction in the Real - vs. the Clinical - World. February 22, 2011.
• Everything You Need to Know About Sex and Addiction: The Outsider's Manual. February 19, 2011.
• Charlie Sheen's Addiction Philosophy - Pros and Cons. February 18, 2011.
• Why We Should Give Serious Thought to Wet Shelters for Homeless Alcoholics. February 15, 2011.
• Are More Intelligent People More Likely to be Alcoholics? February 14, 2011.
• What's Wrong with Artie Lange? Father Overattachment Theory. February 12, 2011.
• Think Education Will Be Improving in the U.S.? February 11, 2011.
• Fine Line Between Good and Bad (and Sexual Predators) in the NFL. February 11, 2011.
• Three Theories of Sexual Behavior. February 10, 2011.
• Obama's Smoking and Drug Injection Sites. February 9, 2011.
• Identity Politics in Addiction - David Brooks' Unconscious. February 6, 2011.
• Die, Peele, Die! February 4, 2011.
• Why Neurochemical Models Make No Sense. February 3, 2011.
• Perhaps Charlie Sheen Should Try a Different Approach. February 2, 2011.
• War of the Beasts in the Animal Kingdom. February 2, 2011.
• The Discovery Channel - Alcoholism Enablers. January 31, 2011.
• Jail Beats 12-Step Rehab. January 30, 2011.
• Horror, Upheaval, Panic, and Nothingness - the Four Stages of Reactions to Tiger Mom. January 23, 2011.
• Refresher Course on That Nazi Thing. January 22, 2011.
• Mothering as Mentoring. January 22, 2011.
• The Psychology of Ricky Gervais. January 21, 2011.
• People Should Quit Drinking and Smoking - But Can They? January 21, 2011.
• Suicide as Rational Choice? January 20, 2011.
• Psychology Has Failed. January 19, 2011.
• The Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Why Don't We Just Force People to Be Treated? January 18, 2011.
• Haitian Charity: Our Efforts, Now Abandoned, to Show That We're Good. January 17, 2011.
• Mass Murderers, Psychotic and Ordinary. January 12, 2011.
• Can We Profile Killers Like Jared Loughner, Nidal Malik Hasan, and the VA Tech Shooter? January 11, 2011.
• Society as Pusher: Addicted While Under Medical Control. January 10, 2011.
• An America Built on Addiction. January 7, 2011.
• Drinking for Health. January 1, 2011.
• Film and Addiction II: Is Rooster Cogburn Alcoholic? December 30, 2010.
• I Had a Nightmare - It Was the Future of America! December 27, 2010.
• Film and Addiction I: "Somewhere," filling the day as the antidote to addiction. December 27, 2010.
• Christmas Movies 2010 - "True Grit" Ain't Warm and Fuzzy. December 23, 2010.
• EvPsychers don't believe in psychological insight - cavemen didn't need it! December 21, 2010.
• The Church, Sex, Psychology, and Conversion. December 20, 2010.
• Is Shakespeare Anti-Semitic? December 18, 2010.
• Is Health Care Inflation Inevitable? What Are the Consequences? December 17, 2010.
• Imagining Other Cultures: John Wayne in "The Searchers". December 17, 2010.
• It's the Annual Dual America Award! December 12, 2010.
• Public Prayers Do More Harm than Good. December 11, 2010.
• America Is Already Gone. December 10, 2010.
• Motherhood Isn't What It Used to Be. December 9, 2010.
• Is Evolutionary Psychology Total, Utter, and Dangerous Bullshit? December 8, 2010.
• U.S. students lag badly behind Chinese; KY Governor funds creationist park. December 7, 2010.
• Evolutionary Psychology: We Lap It Up, Even When It's Plainly Wrong. December 6, 2010.
• What Harry Houdini Says About Judaism. December 5, 2010.
• We're Not Interested in Whether You Live – We Want You to be Good. December 4, 2010.
• Only One in Nine Kids Is Prescribed Controlled Meds! That's Nothing! December 1, 2010.
• Living and Dying in America - Two Different Worlds. November 30, 2010.
• Scare Tactics in Climate Change and Addiction. November 30, 2010.
• The Pope and Condoms: How AIDS Changed Catholicism. November 26, 2010.
• Airport Security: Many Must Be Inconvenienced So That I Can Roam Free. November 24, 2010.
• Why Do Smarter, Healthier, and Richer People Drink Moderately? November 24, 2010.
• Public Figures Behaving Badly: Charlie Rangel, George Pataki, Sarah Palin. November 22, 2010.
• What's Up with the Palins and Sex? November 21, 2010.
• Health Alert on Caffeine and Alcohol - We're All Gonna Die! November 20, 2010.
• Jagger and Richards - Perfect F'in' Partners. November 19, 2010.
• Sputnik and Charter Schools: Neither Has Moved American Education Off Center. November 18, 2010.
• Once Again: Love is the Worst Addiction. November 18, 2010.
• Medal of Honor Winner Suffers for Our Sins. November 17, 2010.
• Addiction: How Its Meaning Is Shifting as We Speak. November 15, 2010.
• When the Therapist Appears on Screen, Duck for Cover. November 15, 2010.
• When Asked What They're Addicted To, Men Boast. November 14, 2010.
• Is Marijuana Addictive? Does It Matter? November 11, 2010.
• Let's Kill People Remotely! November 11, 2010.
• Science Is What Society Says It Is: Alcohol's Poison! November 10, 2010.
• Rush People Who Have 1-2 Drinks to AA? November 9, 2010.
• George W. Bush's One True Thing. November 8, 2010.
• Charlie Sheen, Dr. Drew, Prostitutes, and the Recovery Mafia. November 7, 2010.
• Recovery Is in the Eye of the Beholder – The Keith Richards Story. November 5, 2010.
• The End of the Devil's Brew - Baseball Bans Booze! October 30, 2010.
• How Keith Richards Became Keith Richards (and John Lennon - John Lennon). October 29, 2010.
• Robert Downey Jr. Relapses! October 26, 2010.
• The Delusion That Delusional People Are Happy. October 25, 2010.
• The New World of Alcohol. October 25, 2010.
• "Are you scared?" – Playgrounds and Hobgoblins. October 23, 2010.
• Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Democrat. October 20, 2010.
• My Identity Has Never Been Stolen - What's Wrong with Me? October 19, 2010.
• What Condoleezza Rice Tells Us About Race, Family, and the Future of America. October 17, 2010.
• Problems We’ll Never Solve – Coddled College Students and Other Cultural Addictions. October 12, 2010.
• MSNBC's Education Nation Meant Nothing. October 11, 2010.
• Sex and the Single Woman. October 11, 2010.
• Remembrance of Sports Heroes Past: America's Inner Cities are Too Disintegrated to Create Baseball Players. October 10, 2010.
• What I Learned from Writing a Blog: Famous People have Groupies! October 8, 2010.
• 'Tibet in Song': Exploring What The Chinese Occupation Has Meant For Buddhism. October 8, 2010.
• Will I Be Forced to Vote Republican? October 7, 2010.
• What percentages of people in recovery are treated and untreated? October 7, 2010.
• Sexism in the New Facebook World. October 4, 2010.
• You Have to Cheat to Run for Governor. September 29, 2010.
• Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us. September 27, 2010.
• Reform American Education - Reform America? September 27, 2010.
• The Last Gay-Bashing Campaign? September 22, 2010.
• Why Don't Irish and Italian People Drink the Same? September 21, 2010.
• Poor Americans Are the Most Obese, and We Have No Help for Them. September 20, 2010.
• Two Kinds of Women. September 20, 2010.
• The Tea Party as a Cargo Cult. September 18, 2010.
• Conference - First drink - then. . .? September 18, 2010.
• Three Signs of a Temperance Lecture. September 17, 2010.
• I'm Single-Handedly Preserving the World's Wine Cultures - Any Help Out There? September 13, 2010.
• America’s Racial Report Card – think things are getting better? September 12, 2010.
• Are there cultural differences in drinking? September 7, 2010.
• Open letter to Jürgen Rehm. September 5, 2010.
• My Dream America -- Appearing Now in Queens. August 25, 2010.
• We Don't Believe Alcohol's Good For You! August 19, 2010.
• Demagoguery Always Works! August 17, 2010.
• The Hidden Health Benefits of Alcohol? August 16, 2010.
• Louis Armstrong: Genius and Drugs. August 7, 2010.
• What's Wrong With Sentencing People to Addiction Treatment? August 5, 2010.
• Questions I Would Have Liked Luke Russert to Ask Charlie Rangel. July 23, 2010.
• The Case for Managed Health Care - And Why Americans Reject It. July 19, 2010.
• Is President Obama Hung Up Around His Daughters' Sexuality? July 19, 2010.
• How Everyone Already Knows the Disease Theory is Full of ___, but is Afraid to Say So. July 17, 2010.
• Mad Mel's Hang-Up: Love and Addiction. July 16, 2010.
• The Kids Are All Right Is All Right: No 18-Year-Olds Drink Wine or Have Sex! July 15, 2010.
• Levi and Bristol, Modern-Day Romeo and Juliet? July 15, 2010.
• Raise Your Hands - Who Thinks Michelle Obama Will Reduce Childhood Obesity? July 14, 2010.
• The Incredible Rachelness of Maddow. July 14, 2010.
• Same Sex Marriage - Yay! Teen Sex and Wine - Nay! July 13, 2010.
• Five personal reasons for not taking psychiatric drugs. July 13, 2010.
• Was Mel Gibson Always a Violent Psychopath? July 10, 2010.
• Free Lindsay Lohan? July 9, 2010.
• They Disregarded My Advice for Lindsay Lohan! July 8, 2010.
• How We Won the War on Drugs, Repeatedly, and How to Win the Afghanistan War. July 7, 2010.
• The Writing on the Wall: Why Americans Have to Be Brought Low. July 7, 2010.
• AA Isn't the Best Solution: Alternatives for Alcoholics. July 1, 2010.
• Media, Politics, and Reality. June 29, 2010.
• Why Do Poorer and Dumber People Smoke More, Drink More Soda, but Drink Less Alcohol? June 28, 2010.
• Be My Baby: Love, Marriage, and Prison. June 27, 2010.
• How Barack Obama Made Me a Pacifist. June 26, 2010.
• McChrystal Meets Restrepo: Can Modern War Withstand Modern Media? June 25, 2010.
• Dang Me – I can't love cartoon characters! June 23, 2010.
• Drug Courts: You'd Think They Would Work. June 22, 2010.
• No More Best Friends - Next, No More Lovers? June 20, 2010.
• Shakespeare and Modern Love - Kiss Me Kate. June 19, 2010.
• Afghanistan: The Psychology of Failure as Justification for Continuing Futility. June 16, 2010.
• Were the Founding Fathers Alcoholics? June 15, 2010.
• Have a Happy Marriage: Marry a Woman Who’ll Put Up with Anything. June 4, 2010.
• The Good and Evil of Alcohol. May 27, 2010.
• Three Things Joe Biden Opposes: Alcohol, Female Sexuality and Swearing. May 20, 2010.
• Mastering the Political Arts: How Not To Take Responsibility. May 19, 2010.
• Is Beau Biden's Abstinence a Risk Factor for Stroke? May 17, 2010.
• Globalization and Its Discontents: War of Lifestyles. May 3, 2010.
• Porn Addiction Takes a Lot of Time. April 27, 2010.
• Michelle: Talk to Your Husband About Obesity. April 22, 2010.
• Mickelson's Wife Made Him a Better Golfer. April 12, 2010.
• Chelsea Handler - This Is Your Judaism Calling. April 12, 2010.
• The Bullies Union. April 9, 2010.
• Why Sex Scandals Matter. April 7, 2010.
• How Don’t You Notice Your Husband’s a Nazi? April 1, 2010.
• The Tea Party Movement Is Undemocratic, Futile, and Violent at Its Core. March 29, 2010.
• The Dangerous Myth of Interspecies Love. March 27, 2010.
• Howard Stern's Right About Gabourey Sidibe. March 19, 2010.
• Why We Can’t Be Honest About Homoeroticism. March 11, 2010.
• The Impact of Negative Cultural Images of Alcohol. March 10, 2010.
• Siblings are More Challenging than Gender Change - the Movie. March 10, 2010.
• The Science of Changing Cultural Habits – Money, Food, Alcohol. March 9, 2010.
• My Fabulous Sports Career on the Mean Streets of Philadelphia. March 8, 2010.
• The Problem with Having a Light Comedian as Our Historian in Chief. March 6, 2010.
• What Intelligence Means. March 5, 2010.
• What Happens When a Public Official Loses Touch With Reality? March 4, 2010.
• Leave David Alone! (It's not nice to mock crazy people). March 2, 2010.
• Thank God! - We'll Finally Eliminate State Police Political Interference. March 1, 2010.
• Why Self-Regulation by Police, Environmentalists, and Any Other Group Never Works. March 1, 2010.
• Robber Politicians: Public officials living high and protecting their own. February 25, 2010.
• Take Your Kids with You to Rehab - If You're Rich. February 24, 2010.
• How to Chart Public Confessions. February 23, 2010.
• Glenn Beck's Alcoholism and CPAC. February 22, 2010.
• Cultural Münchausen Syndrome: Our treatment of children is making them sick. February 20, 2010.
• Is Bode Miller an Alcoholic? February 16, 2010.
• Misidentifying Clinton's Risk Factors. February 12, 2010.
• War Over Addiction: Evaluating The DSM-V. February 11, 2010.
• Readers Quiz - Can this be love? February 11, 2010.
• Think Beyond the Label: Society’s Hopelessly Mixed Message. February 9, 2010.
• Super Bowl and Suicide. February 8, 2010.
• Special Super Bowl Post: The Marvels of Football Psychology. February 7, 2010.
• Smoking and Addiction - Fad and Fashion. February 5, 2010.
• I Wonder About People Who Attack Bloggers. February 2, 2010.
• On my integrity and peripatetic career (Posted to the Kettil Bruun Society Listserv). January 28, 2010.
• The Horror Whose Name Can't Be Spoken - Teen Sex! January 26, 2010.
• Buttheaditis - The Demoralization of the American Male. January 25, 2010.
• The Unbearable Heaviness of Truth. January 24, 2010.
• The Unimaginable Future Is Here. January 22, 2010.
• Haiti and the United States - The Limits of Feel-Good Assistance. January 19, 2010.
• Martha Coakley and Modern Witch Hunting - Ritual Child Sexual Abuse. January 18, 2010.
• The Globalization of Psychiatry - Universalizing Our Mental Illness. January 10, 2010.
• Psychology Is So Simple. January 9, 2010.
• How To Make Your Child a Psychological Wreck - The Playground Manual. January 8, 2010.
• When the Sheriff Gets Into Town. January 6, 2010.
• 2010: 7 Steps Out Of Addiction. January 5, 2010.
• God, Lincoln, and Depression. January 2, 2010.
• Caesarians and Mindfulness. January 1, 2010.
• The Decade that Changed Our Brain Wiring. December 31, 2009.
• Top Ten Greatest Films of 2009. December 30, 2009.
• Family as Therapy, Rather than Family Therapy. December 28, 2009.
• What We're Like in 2010. December 27, 2009.
• “Up In the Air”: What American Movies Say About Our Sexuality. December 22, 2009.
• Addiction: Fruit Flies Create AA Group! December 18, 2009.
• Family, Dogs, Love Under Attack! December 15, 2009.
• Will Sex Addiction Be in DSM-V? December 13, 2009.
• Climate-Gate E-Mails - Science, and Psychology, as Usual. December 11, 2009.
• What If We Had A National Institute Of Addiction? December 9, 2009.
• Tiger Woods - Emblem of America December 8, 2009.
• Shakespeare in Love. December 7, 2009.
• What Makes Tiger Tick: Sex Addict or Skilled Gamer? December 6, 2009.
• "It's a Wonderful Life" – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression. December 4, 2009.
• True Love - The Salahis. December 3, 2009.
• "My Wife May Be Calling" - Tiger Loses His Lustre. December 2, 2009.
• Caffeine Addiction -- As Real As Nicotine Addiction? December 2, 2009.
• I Just Want to Testify (about my alcoholism). November 25, 2009.
• Great Artists Can Be Cads, But Can They Not Be? November 23, 2009.
• United States Changes Its Mind on Addiction - It's Not a Chronic Brain Disease After All. November 20, 2009.
• Women Should Not Examine Their Breasts For Lumps. November 17, 2009.
• Sleeping With Your Guru. November 11, 2009.
• Ontology Recapitulates Phylogeny: Observing my 21-year-old daughter and 21-month-old grandson. November 10, 2009.
• The Age of Paranoia. November 9, 2009.
• The End of Partisan America. November 8, 2009.
• Two Different Worlds We Live In - The Hasan Murders. November 7, 2009.
• Terrorists and Mass Murderers are Lonely Guys. November 6, 2009.
• How Your Child Will Die. November 2, 2009.
• How Did Alec Become the Sanest Baldwin? October 28, 2009.
• It's all happening at the playground (apologies to Simon and Garfunkel). October 25, 2009.
• Does infant video dependence cause autism? October 24, 2009.
• Does Good Sex Make Sports Heroes? (Or is it love?) October 21, 2009.
• Is managing psychoactive substances an essential life skill? October 20, 2009.
• Now Let's Pass a Law Banning Balloon Hoaxes. October 19, 2009.
• Is Shriver Woman's Nation Depressed? - Ballooning depression among women. October 19, 2009.
• Mindfulness in Addiction and Film. October 17, 2009.
• Witch Hunting is Alive and Well - in PT Blogs. October 16, 2009.
• The Great Joan Baez-Bob Dylan Love Affair. October 15, 2009.
• Celebrity Apology Rule Book. October 13, 2009.
• How to Be Your Own Ulysses. October 11, 2009.
• Five Things Children Must Master. October 9, 2009.
• Answers to Five (well, 3.5) Unsolvable Mental Health Questions. October 7, 2009.
• The Hollow Man - Dave surprised wife was upset! October 6, 2009.
• Top Ten List: Why Letterman Can't Do Any More Sarah Palin Top-Ten Lists. October 5, 2009.
• So David Letterman thinks Sarah Palin is white trash? October 5, 2009.
• David Letterman: Brief Interviews with Powerful Men. October 2, 2009.
• Big Boobs - A cautionary tale. October 1, 2009.
• Nervous Breakdown: Remember When People Used to Overcome Mental Illness? September 30, 2009.
• Why We Will Lose on Childhood Obesity. September 29, 2009.
• Should Roman Polanski Be Imprisoned? September 27, 2009.
• Hey, Addiction Experts - Drew Outgrew Drug Addiction (now for her love addiction) . September 25, 2009.
• John and Mackenzie Phillips - Recovery Family of the Century. September 24, 2009.
• What Was the Previous World Record (before the Edwards) for Lying and Self-Deception? September 21, 2009.
• Was Serena's Outburst Genetic? September 15, 2009.
• Convincing Ourselves We're Okay. September 14, 2009.
• McEnroe: Serena's Outburst Was Fine. September 13, 2009.
• Why Men Rape - The Movie. September 8, 2009.
• How to Confess on TV. September 3, 2009.
• How to Interrogate Terrorists. August 29, 2009.
• Passing the Baton in Lane: Life Skill or Moral Lesson? August 22, 2009.
• Drug Czar, Veep, and President Debate Drug Policy. August 22, 2009.
• I Won't See Glourious Basterds. August 21, 2009.
• Why Weren't "Mad Men" Depressed? August 14, 2009.
• Paths to Light and to Darkness in the Addiction Field. August 12, 2009.
• What if Those Crazies Are Right? August 11, 2009.
• The Five Stages of Grief over Obama's Drug Policies. August 8, 2009.
• Susan Axelrod and Joe Biden Should Register as Heath Care Lobbyists. August 6, 2009.
• If Obama Were Funnier, He'd Be a Lousy President. August 5, 2009.
• Thank God - We're All Happy Now! August 4, 2009.
• I'm So Over. August 3, 2009.
• In Praise of Michael Jackson. August 1, 2009.
• LBJ Makes a Comeback. August 1, 2009.
• Ending Drunkenness in America. July 30, 2009.
• Addicted to Health Care. July 28, 2009.
• Professor Gates: Victim or Bully? President Obama: Us or Them? July 24, 2009.
• Obama Blows His Presidency -- Top Ten Health Care Reforms He Won't Do. July 23, 2009.
• My Travels with George Vaillant - Fighting the Disease Theory from Continent to Continent. July 23, 2009.
• Did I Tell You About the Time I Was Arrested? July 22, 2009.
• Ellen, we don't need more irrationality (you must be a sought-after guest at seances!). July 20, 2009.
• At Least We All Now Know What the Health Care Reform Debate Is About. July 17, 2009.
• How Atheist Democrats Fell Behind Christian Republicans in Cheating Sweepstakes. July 17, 2009.
• What Cindy McCain and Michael Jackson Have in Common. July 13, 2009.
• What's the Most Dangerous Addiction? July 13, 2009.
• Health Care Reform to Destruction. July 11, 2009.
• Politics and Sex VI: Let's Add up the Cheaters in the Lewinsky Affair. July 11, 2009.
• Addiction experts want you to be like Michael Jackson. July 10, 2009.
• Michael Jackson's Memorial: Love is for the living. July 9, 2009.
• The Waste of Michael Jackson. July 7, 2009.
• The Toughest Addiction to Quit. July 6, 2009.
• Readers Quiz: What do you think about naming your child after you? July 2, 2009.
• Michael Jackson's Death Won't Reduce Abuse of Prescription Meds. June 30, 2009.
• Did Some People Need Michael Jackson to Die? June 28, 2009.
• Can love be addictive? Ask Mark Sanford - or his wife. June 27, 2009.
• Casual Cruelty Towards Children (Which Doesn't Stop There). June 22, 2009.
• Psychological Interview with Barack Obama. June 10, 2009.
• Two Views of Apology. June 4, 2009.
• Susan Boyle's Breakdown: Isn't she a bit like you and me? June 4, 2009.
• Why We Can't Solve Autism. May 25, 2009.
• Bullshitting: Lessons from the Masters. May 15, 2009.
• Tilda Swinton Saves the Free World: Redemption Through Action. May 9, 2009.
• Five Questions Oprah Should Have Asked Elizabeth Edwards. May 6, 2009.
• The Life-and-Death Struggle over the Meaning of Addiction: Do God and Nature Back DSM-V? April 25, 2009.
• States' Cross-Dressing Flummoxes Times. April 12, 2009.
• Shiksas in Film. April 11, 2009.
• Abusing Kids for Fun and Profit. April 6, 2009.
• Letting Alcoholics Drink. April 4, 2009.
• Looking into the Future: Mr. Obama, Legalize This Drug! March 30, 2009.
• Should Mothers Teach Daughters to Enjoy Sex? March 25, 2009.
• Is the President Having a Nervous Breakdown? March 23, 2009.
• What Do We Learn from the Osbournes About Addiction and Recovery? March 21, 2009.
• The History of Playgrounds in Cartoons. March 19, 2009.
• Why Do Teen Girls Diss Rihanna? March 18, 2009.
• What if Americans aren't good enough? March 15, 2009.
• Will Our Kids Be Happy? Why we don't allow them to find out for themselves. March 13, 2009.
• Why We Can't Legalize Drugs. March 12, 2009.
• Republican Women's Sexual Frustration. March 12, 2009.
• The Same Thing that Makes Us Love Makes Us Hate - The "Us-Them" Quiz. March 9, 2009.
• Caught in the Headlights -- Psychologist on O'Reilly. March 7, 2009.
• States Selling Addiction: "Why Not? We Need the Money!" March 7, 2009.
• Inject Resveratrol, Don't Drink! March 6, 2009.
• Readers Quiz: Which race takes more drugs? March 3, 2009.
• Rihanna Returns to Man Who Maimed Her - What this tells us about addiction. March 1, 2009.
• Drug Policy Reform: Is the Timing Perfect, or Are We Ahead of the Times? February 28, 2009.
• Three Things You're Not Allowed to Say About the Obamas - But They're True - and They Make Me Love Them More. February 26, 2009.
• Screw CSI: The Chandra Levy Case Reveals, Once Again, Police Can't Find Their Asses with Both Hands. February 24, 2009.
• Problems America Won't Solve in Our Lifetimes, #2 - Addiction. February 21, 2009.
• Problems America Won't Solve in Our Lifetimes, #1 - Education. February 19, 2009.
• Health Care Policy by HuffPo Celebrities - Don't Attack Me! February 18, 2009.
• Is Teaching Your Kid to "Do the Right Thing" Child Abuse? February 18, 2009.
• Americans Are Not the Luckiest People on Earth. February 16, 2009.
• Burris Has Blagojevitis (Main Symptom: Denying Any Wrongdoing!). February 16, 2009.
• "I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today": Americans Want What We Can't Pay For. February 12, 2009.
• The Science of Apologies -- Or Is It Child's Play? February 12, 2009.
• Phelps and Rodriguez Show It Pays to Take Drugs. February 11, 2009.
• Is the Octuplets' Mother Crazy, Addicted, or Anti-social? February 9, 2009.
• Taking Words Seriously - Romeo and Juliet are Troubled Kids. February 8, 2009.
• Obama Issues New Vetting Standards! February 4, 2009.
• My Psychological Opinion of Chris Bale Has Risen. February 4, 2009.
• The Eras of Addiction in the Super Bowl. February 1, 2009.
• What Is Addiction? January 30, 2009.
• Government-Media-Corporate Mantra: Only the Little People Worry About Money. January 28, 2009.
• Real Recovery Requires Life-Building. January 25, 2009.
• As a Psychologist, Examining Gender Dynamics on Morning Joe. January 23, 2009.
• The Aftermath of Crazy Love. January 20, 2009.
• AA's declining dogmatism. January 19, 2009.
• Two Types of Confidence - Obama and Bush. January 17, 2009.
• Progressives War over Drug Czar. January 13, 2009.
• Addiction Myth #4 -- moments of clarity lead only to AA. January 13, 2009.
• Readers Quiz: Why Are Americans So Kooky About Drugs, Sex, and Rock & Roll? January 12, 2009.
• Ohmigod! Drinkers Think Better for Longer! Hide This From Children AND Adults! January 8, 2009.
• Addiction Myth #3 -- addiction is a treatable disease. January 7, 2009.
• Addiction Myth #2 -- alcoholics are addiction experts. January 5, 2009.
• Addiction Myth #1 -- addiction is an equal-opportunity despoiler. December 29, 2008.
• You Know, Drinking Ain't So Bad for Most. December 21, 2008.
• Why Harm Reduction Makes Sense: These Three Things I Know are True. December 18, 2008.
• How the hell do you decide love is a tougher addiction than heroin? December 18, 2008.
• The 7 hardest addictions to quit - love is the worst! December 15, 2008.
• I confess - I do bad things! December 12, 2008.
• Is this really what causes alcoholism? - I don't think so. December 9, 2008.
• Stuck in the Mud of De Nial or Harm Reducer in Chief? Barack Obama still smokes but says he's not addicted! December 8, 2008.
• Taking life seriously: How to preserve your mind, raise intellectual children, be a constructive citizen, and get laid more. December 7, 2008.
• Today is the 75th Anniversary of Repeal! What Prohibition Tells Us About America. December 5, 2008.
• I've attacked the 12-steps' dominance in America with a new treatment program. December 1, 2008.
• Want to Worry? - Aftermath of Mumbai. November 28, 2008.
• The Women Who Saved New York. November 24, 2008.
• From Washington to Petraeus: Managerial Genius in American Generals. November 22, 2008.
• What I have learned from writing a PT blog. November 21, 2008.
• Suicide Trip: Filming Death at the Golden Gate. November 19, 2008.
• Addictive-Driving Ads -- Detroit Fouls the Environment. November 18, 2008.
• Gay Marriage: The Culture War Has Just Begun. November 16, 2008.
• Secret Republican Agenda for 2012: Return America to the Middle Ages! November 9, 2008.
• The Bravery of Michelle Obama. November 8, 2008.
• Surprising Things I Learned in the Election: Values Voters Like Dopes and Crooks! November 7, 2008.
• Ambitious Saints: Lincoln and Obama? November 3, 2008.
• Romeo and Juliet's Death Trip: Addictive Love and Teen Suicide. November 1, 2008.
• Passionless Sex -- The American Ideal. October 31, 2008.
• Candidates Debate -- Who Has the Worst Trauma? October 27, 2008.
• Rescue Cindy McCain. October 26, 2008.
• Teaching high school kids how to drink. October 24, 2008.
• Paying Debts Prevents Addiction - Oops, we're in trouble. October 22, 2008.
• Ballad of Cindy and Johnny. October 20, 2008.
• A Man at War with Himself: John McCain's televised identity crisis. October 12, 2008.
• Addiction Scare Tactics: Heard any good Temperance sermons lately? October 10, 2008.
• Straightening the Irish Out About Addiction (before they become as crazy as us). October 4, 2008.
• The Disease of Having Too Much Sex -- Addiction is real, it's just not a disease. September 30, 2008.
• Paul Newman's Beer Drinking. September 28, 2008.
• Palin Accuses Dems of Witchcraft! September 26, 2008.
• We can never be happy again. September 24, 2008.
• Love is for the Living. September 20, 2008.
• Genetics Can't Save Us. September 17, 2008.
• Even Brain Scanners Don't Believe Brain Scans -- But One Day Soon We Will. September 15, 2008.
• Four Unpalatable Political-Psychological Truths -- Guaranteed to Offend Liberals and Conservatives Alike. September 15, 2008.
• Lost in the Woods: Separating Sensible and Binge Drinking on College Campuses. September 13, 2008.
• Did Pattie Boyd require an expert to explain alcoholism? September 5, 2008.
• Bristol Palin's last pleasurable sex act. September 4, 2008.
• From God's Mouth to Biden's Ear -- Addiction IS a disease, and it's against the law to say otherwise. August 24, 2008.
• At long last sanity -- The Amethyst Initiative. August 23, 2008.
• Use More; Don't Touch. August 12, 2008.
• Talk to the Hand. August 12, 2008.
• Edwards' confession shows us just how nutty he is. August 10, 2008.
• Edwards Reveals Affair in Order to Cover Up Homosexuality. August 8, 2008.
• What's Cindy McCain Like in Bed? July 20, 2008.
• Public Health and Well-Meaning Media Will Save Your Children -- If It Kills Them. June 27, 2008.
• American Kids Health Alert. June 19, 2008.
• A Psychological Profile of Tim Russert. June 17, 2008.
• Dying of Medicine. June 14, 2008.
• McCain (and Cindy) On Drugs. June 13, 2008.
• Drinking around the world. June 6, 2008.
• New York Times Assault on Sobriety! June 4, 2008.
• So, you think we're going to end addiction soon? June 3, 2008.
• I'm in Brigadoon--Irish Drinking and Irish Pubs. May 30, 2008.
• We're getting unhealthier, no matter how much we spend. May 28, 2008.
• The 'Tragic Fallacy' that the World Revolves Around the Clintons. May 23, 2008.
• Reckless Sex and Power III: The Top Seven Kennedy Sex Scandals. May 21, 2008.
• Are You Addicted? May 17, 2008.
• Harry Houdini Had Too Much Integrity to Do Therapy on TV. May 15, 2008.
• How to Tell Kooky Nuts in the Addiction Field. May 13, 2008.
• PT Readers’ Drug Abuse Prevention Policy – I couldn’t have done better myself. May 11, 2008.
• How First Nations People Cure Their Own Addictions. May 10, 2008.
• Go Ahead -- Write My Blog! May 7, 2008.
• I Kid Because I Love - I Didn't Really Mean We Should Bomb Spain! May 5, 2008.
• War of the Generations. May 4, 2008.
• No Pill Can Cure Addiction. April 29, 2008.
• Dying of Thirst. April 27, 2008.
• Answers to Addiction Quiz: Homage to Uncle Ozzie. April 24, 2008.
• How to Quit Addiction: The Uncle Ozzie Quiz. April 23, 2008.
• Linguistic Reasons I Can’t Vote for Any of the Candidates. April 21, 2008.
• My Father Is More Intellectual than the Holy Father. April 20, 2008.
• Hillary Enters Rehab! April 17, 2008.
• Message to Pope: God Needs Assertiveness Training. April 14, 2008.
• Want to Live Long? -- Drink. April 12, 2008.
• A Stripper Is My Daughter’s Role Model. April 10, 2008.
• Democrats are Bigots - They Like Smart People. April 9, 2008.
• Open letter to Nora Volkow. April 6, 2008.
• End Alcoholism -- Bomb Spain. April 4, 2008.
• The End of Addiction! April 2, 2008.
• America, Land of the Irrational. March 31, 2008.
• Why Politicians Get Laid More – the Low Road to the High Life. March 30, 2008.
• Heeeeeere’s Harm Reduction. March 28, 2008.
• Protect Poor Chelsea Clinton! March 26, 2008.
• Sex Addicts Anonymous Meeting, Politicians' Division. March 25, 2008.
• Religion as Craziness. March 22, 2008.
• Is Eliot Spitzer an Addict? March 17, 2008.
• The Wives’ Club – Stand-by-Your-Man Psychology. March 13, 2008.
• Therapy by Job, Shakespeare, and Dostoyevsky. March 11, 2008.
• Who Should Teach Your Child to Drink? March 6, 2008.
• America’s Abstinence Fixation “Bites” the Dust. March 3, 2008.
• Pretty Soon, No More Addiction! February 25, 2008.
• News item: Alcoholism not recognized and treated enough in U.S.! February 21, 2008.
• Lying About Recovery. February 12, 2008.
• If God Hurts Those Who Sin, What’s He Been Saying Lately? February 9, 2008.
• Five Things History Can’t Stop. February 8, 2008.
• Miss America to Kids: “Be Anorexic, Like Me”. February 2, 2008.
• Irish Drinking Stereotype Denies Being a Cultural Stereotype. January 26, 2008.
• Accidental Overdose or Suicide? January 24, 2008.
• Why We Can’t Cure Addiction Medically. January 18, 2008.
• Where Are We Headed? January 14, 2008.
• Are you watching Celebrity Rehab on VH1? January 12, 2008.
• Getting Real About Drugs Is Best Harm Prevention. January 10, 2008.
• Letter: My articles in the WSJ. January 7, 2008.
• My Personal Connection to the Presidential Candidates. January 3, 2008.
• Stanton quoted in re latest genetic “discovery”. December 30, 2007.
• Addiction versus Redemption. December 30, 2007.
• Should Barack Obama have Admitted that He Used Drugs? December 24, 2007.
• Thee, Hypocrites: Interview with the Christian Candidates. December 15, 2007.
• Note to the MacArthur Foundation: Here’s What Addiction Is. December 12, 2007.
• To Live or Die in D.C. December 8, 2007.
• Why I Like DSM-IV. December 1, 2007.
• Top Five Reasons CBS News is Full of S. November 28, 2007.
• The Mind of (Alleged) Wife Killers. November 23, 2007.
• ADHD – Altering Kids' Lives Without Addicting Them for Life. November 19, 2007.
• “Pettest of My Pets”: The Inner Worlds of Creative Art, Friendship, and Failed Recovery. November 14, 2007.
• If you believe what you are told. November 6, 2007.
• The Only Free Person in America. November 5, 2007.
• Values Precede Addiction – Britney’s White Trash Budget. November 4, 2007.
• I Didn’t Get Kicked Out of the AA General Services Board Dinner (but I’m not sure I’ll be welcomed back). October 30, 2007.
• AA Appropriates Sobriety. October 24, 2007.
• Stanton on the Gerry Ryan Show. October 22, 2007.
• Stanton and Anna in Europe. October 10, 2007.
• Anna and Stanton Discuss Learning to Drink on CNN. September 30, 2007.
• God Damn, Americans Are Uptight! September 22, 2007.
• Will American Youth Soon Be Drug Free? September 16, 2007.
• Violation of a 20-Year-Old in Rehab. September 12, 2007.
• Anyone Violating the Establishment Clause Out There? September 11, 2007.
• Elvis, Godfather of Prescription Drug Abuse, September 3, 2007.
• A Tribute to Andrew Sarris, August 13, 2007.
• In Defense of Sally Satel, July 29, 2007.
• I Bet Archie $50 We Wouldn’t Get Out of Iraq – I’m Going to Win!, July 28, 2007.
• Oh God! – AA2. July 25, 2007.
• Governors Gone Wild. July 19, 2007.
• Wait a Second – You Mean Most People Overcome Alcoholism Without Treatment? July 10, 2007.
• You Know That Gene for Alcoholism? July 6, 2007.
• Two Ways in Which Life Has Changed. June 30, 2007.
• Video Games Are Addictive – Now What? June 25, 2007.
• “I’m Looking for a Woman with Low Self-Esteem”: The Dirty Life and Times of Crystal Zevon. June 19, 2007.
• Non-Disease Treatment Programs Now Available! June 16, 2007.
• The Story of One Intervention – Warren Zevon. June 14, 2007.
• Bruce Willis Is an Idiot. June 7, 2007.
• The New Synthesis between Disease Theory and CBT = BS. June 4, 2007.
• Comebacks and Failures: Friedkin and Judd in Bug. June 1, 2007.
• American Psychiatric Association Endorses Psychics! May 31, 2007.
• I Would Treat Lindsay Lohan Differently. May 30, 2007.
• They’re Just Not That into Us. 29 May, 2007.
• Lucinda Williams’ Love Life. 27 May, 2007.
• Stanton, Your Ads Are for 12-Step Programs! May 24, 2007.
• The Future of Addiction – “The Drug Dealer is Us!”. May 21, 2007.
• There’s Something Easy that People Like to do that Makes Them Live Longer, but the Government and Medicine are Hiding it from Us. May 17, 2007.
• Get on Message, Bushes! May 16, 2007.
• I Guess He Missed the HBO Series. May 14, 2007.
• Teaching the Wrong Thing. May 11, 2007.
• Who Gets More on the Side – Democrats or Republicans? March 22, 2007.
• What Houdini Tells Us About Life Beyond the Grave. March 19, 2007.
• My comment on HBO series, “Addiction”. March 16, 2007.
• When Will the Embargo on Discussing Alcohol Be Lifted from the Framingham Heart Study? February 16, 2007.
• In Denial. January 8, 2007.
• Good Luck Eliminating Underage Drinking. December 7, 2006.
• Barney Turns Against War. October 21, 2006.
• What’s the First Thing You Do After Committing a Crime? October 4, 2006.
• New Jersey Donates $1.6 Million to Strapped Private Treatment Centers. April 28, 2006.
• Interview in Spiked. April 26, 2006.
• Interview in The Guardian. April 13, 2006.
• Warning – Don’t Pray for Me! April 12 , 2006.
• Perpetual wars. March 30, 2006.
• James Frey. February 21, 2006.
• My Son Died Because of Our Kooky Approach to Drugs – So Let’s Do More of the Same. January 6, 2006.
• Redemption or Corruption? My Name is Earl questions AA verities. November 1, 2005.
• Modern neuroscience has changed our view of addiction, right? October 11, 2005.