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"Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction: The Diagnostic Madness of DSM-V"

          (Slate, July 24, 2009).

"Pharma's Misguided TV Pitches" (Los Angeles Times, op ed, July 22, 2009).

          Reprinted: Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, and Chicago Tribune Online.

"The Latest Personality Disorder?" (Psychology Today, March 30, 2009).

"Should Overuse of the Internet Become a Mental Disorder?" (Psychology Today,

          March 24, 2009).

"The Surprising History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder" (Theory and Psychology,

          February 2009).

"Wrangling over Psychiatry's Bible" (Los Angeles Times, op ed, November 16, 2008).

          Reprinted: San José Mercury News, The North Jersey, Minneapolis Star Tribune. Commentary:

          Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Translated into Spanish for the Electroneurobiology Journal

          (Argentina).


"On Literalism" (International Literary Quarterly, November 2008).

"All Alone: Two Books on Loneliness" (New York Sun, September 30, 2008).

"Cinco heróis tímidos da literatura" (Folha de São Paulo, July 20, 2008; in Portuguese).

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"Shyness or Social Anxiety?" (Boston Globe, op ed, June 11, 2008).

            Reprinted: International Herald Tribune.

"Are We Really That Ill?" (New York Sun, op ed, March 26, 2008).

Translated into nine languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, German, Russian, and Spanish. Reprinted: Taipei Times; Korea Herald; South China Morning Post; Shanghai Daily; The Straits Times (Singapore); The Press and The Timaru Herald (New Zealand); Burma Digest (Myanmar); Brunei Times; The Bahrain Tribune; The Jordan Times; Al Raya (Qatar); The Turkish Weekly (Ankara); L'Orient - Le Jour (Lebanon); Daily News (Egypt); Lidove Noviny (Czech Republic); Koha Ditore (Kosovo); Het Financieele Dagblad (Netherlands); The Scotsman; Bellaciao (France); Standard Times (Sierra Leone); Les Echos (Mali); El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua); Stabroek News (Guyana); and Clarin, El Psitio, and the Electroneurobiology Journal (all in Argentina). Reprinted also in Psicoanálisis y el hospital (Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Seminario, 2008).

"Prozac Nation, Prozac Violence?" (Furious Seasons, March 1, 2008).

"Shy? Or Something More Serious?" (Washington Post, op ed, November 6, 2007).

"Bashful No More" (Wall Street Journal Online, book excerpt, November 3, 2007).

"Psychiatrists and Drug Companies Are Thoroughly Redefining Normal Behaviour" (Battles in Print

             London: Institute of Ideas, 2007).

"Shy on Drugs" (New York Times, op ed, September 21, 2007).

Reprinted: International Herald Tribune.