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PSYCHOLOGY ISSUE > NO. 21

Introduction by Carrie McLaren

World View
Marketing news and other sick stuff

Better Living Through Lobotomy: What can the history of psychosurgery tell us about medicine today?
Allison Xantha Miller interviews Elliot Valenstein

     Sidebar: More than one way to skin a cat
     A brief look at psycho-surgeries

I Am Never Lonely: A brief history of employee personality testing by Ana Marie Cox

     Sidebar: Testmania!
     Carrie McLaren surveys some of the more unusual
     personality tests that have been popular

Prozac Nations
Lawrence Kirmayer discusses cross-cultural mental health

Curious Mental Illnesses of the World

Buyer Beware: How do shoppers respond when items are mysteriously placed in their baskets?
Gaylord Fields experiments

Secret Shopper: The psychology of grocery store design
by Matthew Flaming

Borderline Hysteria: The history of psychosomatic illness
Carrie McLaren interviews Edward Shorter

Sick in the Head
Stay Free! readers share their psychosomatic complaints

Enter the Wolfman: The syndrome that makes you howl at the moon
by Brian Boling and Matt Dicke

My New Favorite Thing
Books, movies, and other items we fancy

1-800-GunMall: A sample selection of new models
by Jason Torchinsky

Selling the War: Confessions of a Video Editor
by Robert Nassau

Deepak Meditates on Iraq
by Jason Torchinsky

Stay Free! Pop Quiz
Starring Cary Grant and L. Ron Hubbard