December 12, 2024

Make American Healthcare Great Again

The new fifth column of Democrat and RINO resisters to all things Trump is emerging. Medical care “experts” begin taunting Trump about his never offering an alternative to ObamaCare in his first term. They are incorrect. The American H...

October 18, 2024

Kamala Harris's recreational pot pledge

As a retired physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, I want to express my concerns about cannabis use even though I support its decriminalization. Pot’s subtle perils, in my opinion, render decriminalization as very different from the wides...

April 24, 2024

Adult failure on campus

The famous child psychologist Erik Erikson talked about generativity versus stagnation in middle age. (Childhood and Society, 1950). Generativity involves the need for individuals to guide the next generation. This may take the fo...

April 18, 2024

Why teenage mass murderers kill

It it wth sadness, anger, and frustration that I read about teenage and young adult mass shooting murders. Young mass murderers seem to simultaneously envy and despise the seeming happy normal lives of kids they see around them each day at high sc...

January 17, 2024

Why Trump bewilders psychiatrists

Donald J. Trump is easily disliked, frequently feared, or begrudgingly respected by political opponents. He is difficult to love, and frequently misunderstood. President Trump is maligned and devalued by many Americans. The anti-Trump phenomenon and ...

December 1, 2023

Appropriate fear of Islam vs 'Islamophobia'

The term “Islamophobia” gets used pejoratively against conservatives. I think appropriate fear of Islam is different than some glib term of accusation. In 2005 Dr. Althea Horner and I had extensive discussions and collaboration about the ...

September 23, 2023

The Psychology of Illegal Immigration

During American presidential campaigns, frequent questions posed are, “What will we do with millions of illegal immigrants already in America? And, how about the many hundreds of thousands more arriving constantly? Biden made it clear from the ...

September 5, 2023

Biden's brain, mind, behavior, and character

I need to say that I have never examined Joe Biden, Jr., but I have followed medical events in his life and observed his public statements and behavior as vice president and president.  Biden does not age gracefully, and his continuing verbal ga...

July 19, 2023

Hunter Biden's substance abuse 'cure'?

As a physician-psychiatrist, I was the medical director of a substance abuse unit at a U.S. naval hospital.  After my military service, I worked at a V.A. hospital with substance abuse patients.  In my private practice, I also did...

June 22, 2023

Why liberals are perpetually forgiving of criminals

Fervent liberals see themselves as perpetually rational, kind, forgiving, and empathic.  They believe that exceptionally astute and effective mental health practitioners can help even persistent dangerous criminal offenders to be redeemed a...

October 15, 2022

The Dark Side of Celebrity in Our Time

What is it about celebrity, notoriety and fame that distorts, corrupts, and degrades the conscience, morality, and ethics of celebrities? Do some celebrities metaphorically and psychologically fly too close to the sun like Icarus? Why does the status...

May 9, 2022

The Abortion Decision

Decision: a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration. Origin: late Middle English (‘bring to a settlement’): from French décider, from Latin decidere ‘determine’, from de- ‘off’’ caedere ...

April 23, 2022

Title 42 is about more than just COVID cases

One of the most striking things about our political class is how few have visited our southern border — including Joe Biden.  This means that, when Biden talks airily about removing Title 42 controls over entry in America, he has no i...

May 20, 2019

Donald Trump -- A Triumphant President: A Psychoanalyst’s Observations and Opinions

During the 2016 presidential campaign I was stunned and often revolted by Donald Trump’s aggressive and insulting verbal behavior and political tactics. His comments about Carly Fiorina’s face angered and disgusted me. At times, his ...

November 13, 2018

Dealing with Gun Violence and Mental Illness

Mass killer and former Marine Ian David Long recently killed twelve people at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, California. As often occurs, a firearm was used by a person with history of obvious mental instability who was...