• Crazy Like Us – The Globalization of the American Psyche, Free Press (2010). How the US view of mental illness is exported to the world, and the implications of doing so. Website for Crazy Like Us
  • Urban Tribes : a generation redefines friendship, family and commitment (2004), an examination of the affluent “yet to be marrieds” ages 25 to 39.
  • Therapy’s Delusions (1999) an attack on psychoanalysis, co-authored with Richard Ofshe.
  • Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria (1996) an indictment of the recovered memory movement, co-authored with Richard Ofshe.