Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet

What did Abraham Lincoln, Georgia O’Keeffe, William James, Sigmund Freud, William Tecumseh Sherman, Franz Kafka, and the Buddha have in common? According to their biographers, all suffered from depression. And they utilized antidotes—some of them forgotten in the modern age— that helped them overcome and transform their depression without doctors.

Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?

Perhaps something useful can be accomplished as a consequence of transparently repulsive Donald Trump: rousing Americans to reconsider honoring U.S. presidents with Presidents’ Day, and replacing it with a holiday that recognizes a more respectable group of people.

The ‘Atlas Shrugged’ author made selfishness heroic and caring about others weakness.

In the current issue of the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Australian dissident psychiatrist Niall McLaren titles his article, “Psychiatry as Bullshit” and makes a case for just that.