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The Masks We Wear; The Faces We Present

A new exhibition at London’s Museum of the Mind explores the personality masks worn by the mentally ill and by the professionals who treat them.

Hannah Gal

22 Mar 2023 · 8 min read

Words Don’t Matter

We have power over words, not vice versa.

Lawrence M. Krauss

13 Mar 2023 · 6 min read

Death on Demand: Cautionary Tales from Canada

Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, once reserved for the terminally ill, is increasingly attracting applicants experiencing poverty and depression.

Margaret Wente

1 Feb 2023 · 14 min read

Experiences with Suicide

Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.

Art Kusserow

16 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

Spinning the Tavistock Story

Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology.

Bernard Lane

23 Sep 2022 · 12 min read

At the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Affirmation’-Based Gender Dogma Is Finally Being Challenged

Many families are seeking a process that doesn’t push transition on children who struggle with their biological sex.

Stella O’Malley

23 Aug 2022 · 11 min read

Shuttering the Tavistock

The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation.

Bernard Lane

5 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food

A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it.

Gurwinder Bhogal

26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

We Need to Do Hard Things

We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort.

Steve Magness

30 Jun 2022 · 12 min read

When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick

There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis.

Clare Rowe

7 Jun 2022 · 7 min read

Gender Ideologues Have Co-opted the Campaign Against Conversion Therapy

I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved.

Peter Gajdics

4 Jun 2022 · 10 min read

Art Is Not Therapy

Something is flattened when our understanding of art is asked to serve the logic of a medical diagnosis, which sees the messiness of the human condition as a malady to be cured.

Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead

12 May 2022 · 10 min read

Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State

This month, the New York Times ran a two-part podcast series titled When Texas Went After Transgender Care [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/podcasts/the-daily/transgender-teenagers-clinic-texas.html] , detailing that state’s effort to ban [https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf] “elective procedures for gender transitioning,

Lisa Selin Davis

25 Apr 2022 · 9 min read

A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health

On her website [https://www.drericaanderson.com/], Berkeley-based clinical psychologist Erica Anderson describes her mission as helping those “who have embarked upon a gender journey.” She also seeks to advance the “shared goals of social justice and transgender well-being,” and offers assistance to anyone seeking to “understand, educate, and level

Lisa Selin Davis

6 Jan 2022 · 11 min read

The Liar’s Club: Looking Back on Princeton

Scott Newman

9 Dec 2021 · 8 min read