Authentic Autism, or Aspirational Asperger’s?

What even is “mental health” these days? Apparently, it is now best defined as a teenage child turning up to school dressed as a giraffe. You may be aware of the lamentable phenomenon of “furries,” those clearly disturbed individuals who self-identify as animals. A typical example would be this absurd and pathetic young Norwegian girl named Nano who thinks that, due to “a genetic defect,” she is a cat born in a human body, and so crawls around on all fours, communicates via purring, sleeps in a sink, dresses in fuzzy ears and paws, and claims to possess both super-hearing and the ...

Sweating the Small Stuff

One of the best things about living in the country is how little you care about "€œcity"€ issues such as the Peruvian Kraut who killed a gangster's son or a bunch of savages ...

Give the Bigots a Pill

Get in line, all ye racists"€”they have a pill for you now. Last week, several supposedly respectable websites erupted in a blinding sunshower of bigot-hating joy at a recent ...

Losing Interest in Attention Deficit Disorder

I guess I haven’t been paying attention, but it looks as if a lot of you haven’t been paying attention. During an online forum discussion the other day, after I’d asked some ...

The Great American Pill Party

A report released Wednesday says that in 2010, one in five Americans took medication to relieve conditions broadly described as mental disorders. Such medications include ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humanistic Psychology and the Crisis of Meaning

A new study predicts that organized religion is heading toward extinction in nine nations. On some levels, this may be grounds for rejoicing: less fanaticism, fewer infringements ...

The Ten Hardest Laughs I’ve Ever Had

Laughing your face off happens a lot more when you"€™re a kid than when you"€™re old. Remember those break downs in grade school when you"€™d have to hide your head behind a ...

Paging Dr. House

Once, in the years B. D. (Before Deinstitutionalization), Australia's mental hospital care took two forms. There was the public-asylum form. Then there was the private-clinic ...


Sign Up to Receive Our Latest Updates!