Paul McHugh is a distinguished psychiatrist and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on psychiatry, mental health policy, and the intersection of science and culture. His writing addressed topics ranging from terrorism to evolutionary theory to the legacy of Freudian psychoanalysis.
AS THE NEW YORK TIMES reported recently, psychiatric epidemiologists from the Harvard Medical School have published studies purporting to demonstrate that some 55 percent of Americans suffer from mental illness in their lifetime. These studies--which cost $20 million, most of it out of the…
EIGHTY YEARS AGO THIS SUMMER, the Scopes trial upheld the effort of the state of Tennessee to exclude the teaching of Darwinian evolution from Tennessee classrooms. The state claimed Darwinism contradicted orthodox religion. But times change, and recently a federal judge ruled that a three-sentence…
Grace and Power
Remembering Trauma
IN THE WAKE of September 11, what can a psychiatrist contribute to America's defense? Nothing, of course, to defend the nation from bombs, but something perhaps to defend it against confusion--and here America certainly needs help. At the University of Pennsylvania, the provost called several…
Of Two Minds