“The most dangerous psychiatrist in America”? A Critic Takes On Psychiatric Dogma, Loudly. Dr. Sally Satel, in magazine articles, op-ed pieces in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and her Dec. 2000 book PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine, about which I previously blinked,

describes well-known public health researchers as “indoctrinologists,” accusing them of
promulgating a “social justice agenda” by focusing on racism and
poverty rather than health education and disease- fighting
strategies. She criticizes feminists for construing
wife-battering as a symptom of a patriarchal society. She argues that psychiatry is being co-opted by a culture of
“victimology,” which undermines personal responsibility and
ultimately damages patients. Dr. Satel shares office suites with such conservative luminaries as
Newt Gingrich, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Robert H. Bork in her tenure as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Shrub sought her counsel on drug policy during his campaign and has reportedly invited her into his Administration. While, as a clinical psychiatrist, I find her views on increased personal responsibility among our patients and avoiding the medicalization of social ills superficially beguiling until you examine the public policy implications of voicing them loudly instead of patiently within our interactions with those we treat. New York Times