Media Coverage
- U.S. News & World Report, “A public menace”
- The Christian Science Monitor, “‘Protection orders’ get a closer look in fight against gun deaths”
- MSNBC, “Florida shooting suspect suffered from more than mental health”
- NBC News, “Connecting mental illness and mass shooting misses the point, experts say”
- PBS News Hour, “This Florida bill could restrict guns from dangerous owners”
- The Takeaway/WNYC, “Parsing the Science on Mental Illness and Mass Shootings”
- The Cipher Brief, “How to Stop a Mass Killer? “Wait, Watch and Hope They Don’t Act””
- The Village Voice, “Why Trump’s Blame of Mass Shootings on the ‘Mentally Disturbed’ Is Dangerous”
- Democracy Now, “Trump Blames Mental Illness for Parkland Shooting, Ignores Easy Gun Access & Loose Background Checks”
- WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C., “Experts say there’s little connection between mental health and gun violence”
- Correio Braziliense (Brazil newspaper), “Massacre anunciado”
- KCBS San Francisco, Trump’s comments on Parkland, FL shooting
- The Daily Helmsman, “Mental illness and gun regulation questioned after Florida shooting”
- NBC News, “Connecting mental illness and mass shooting misses the point, experts say”
- USA Today, “The gun debate isn’t about what you think”
- The New York Times, “Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine”
- BBC News, Las Vegas shooting: What was Stephen Paddock’s motive?
- Vox, “Yes, Congress did repeal a rule that made it harder for people with mental illness to buy a gun”
- Book Riot, “100 Must-Read Books About The History of Medicine”
- CNN, “The cruel double standard that may have saved Obamacare”
- Anthropoliteia, “#BlackLivesMatter Syllabus: Policing Mental Health and Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis”
- O GLOBO, “Defesa de armas nas escolas ganha força entre americanos (Defense of arms in schools gains strength among Americans)”
- Vox, “Congress is repealing a rule that makes it harder for people with mental illness to buy a gun”
- Research News at Vanderbilt, “Unique premed program provides tools to understand social contexts for health”
- Research News at Vanderbilt, “Antidepressants: A treatment for bad marriages?”
- PDResources, “An Antidepressant for a Bad Marriage?”
- Knowridge Science Report, “Antidepressants: A treatment for bad marriages?”
- Patheos, “Antidepressants for a Bad Marriage Yield Depressing Results.”
- Journal of the American Medical Association, “Mental Health Reform Will Not Reduce US Gun Violence, Experts Say”
- Morning Consult, “Voters Say Mental Illness Isn’t Only Factor Linked to Gun Violence”
- WJLA, Washington, D.C., “Experts discuss mental health provisions in the executive order on gun control”
- MSNBC Op-Ed, “Obama Unveils Executive Action on Guns”
- U.S. News & World Report, “Obama Takes Aim at the Gun Lobby”
- The New York Times Op-Ed, “Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Gun Violence”
- AEON, “In praise of defiance. Labelling someone crazy and difficult is a way to resist justice and change – and psychiatrists are complicit”
- The Washington Post, “Mass shootings are distracting from the real danger of guns in America”
- The Christian Science Monitor, “Mass shootings appear to be spiraling out of control. Are they? (+video)”
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “US gun debate: Schools install anti-shooter barricades to protect students as reform stalls”
- The New York Times, “When Covering Mass Shooters, Avoid the Racial Stereotypes”
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “More police refusing to name shooters for fear of copycats”
- Vox, “Everyone blames mental illness for mass shootings. But what if that’s wrong?” (updated)
- DW, “Could the Virginia TV shooting have been prevented?”
- Discovery News, “Gun Violence in U.S. Spreading Like the Flu: Experts”
- The Tennessean, “Public health expert: Guns in parks, arenas a step ‘backward'”
- The Denver Post, “Lessons on preventing mass shootings elusive in Aurora theater trial”
- Vox, “Everyone blames mental illness for mass shootings. But what if that’s wrong?”
- The New York Times, “Can Psychiatrists Stop Gun Violence?”
- The New York Times, “When Officers Die and Protesters Get the Blame”
- NPR: States of Mind—Mental Illness in America