TAM 2014 - Sally Satel - Fifty Shades of Gray Matter
Channel: JamesRandiFoundation
Date: 2014-08-14

Healthy Skepticism and the Illuminated Brain

Sally Satel, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where her work focuses on mental health policy as well as political trends in medicine. Formerly an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University, Dr. Satel remains a lecturer there. She is a former Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and has testified before Congress on veterans’ issues, mental health policy, drug courts, and health disparities. Dr. Satel has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and medicine, and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. Her books include PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine, One Nation Under Therapy coauthored with Christina Hoff Sommers and most recently Brainwashed – The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience with Scott Lilienfeld.