Sally Satel: 3 books
One Nation Under Therapy
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with...
Brainwashed
The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory...
by Sally Satel
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Drawing on a wealth of information PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness-including victimology, multiculturalism, rejection of fixed truths and individual autonomy-are allowed to enter the fortress of medicine.