Ethan Watters is an author and journalist who as spent the last two decades writing about psychiatry and social psychology. Most recently, he is the author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. The book suggests that America is homogenizing not just the categorization and treatment of the mentally ill but the subjective experience of being mentally ill as well. Prior to that, he wrote Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family, an examination of the growing population of the “never marrieds.” He began his career writing about daycare abuse scares, satanic cult conspiracies, and other urban hysterias of the early 1990s. He was the first national magazine writer to expose the excesses and mistakes of therapists who lead their patients to uncover "recovered memories" of early childhood abuse. That work culminated in a co-authorship (with UC Berkeley social psychologist Richard Ofshe) of Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hyseria, a groundbreaking indictment of the recovered memory movement. Also with Ofshe, Watters coauthored Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried. Watters is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Men’s Journal, Details, Wired, and This American Life. His writing on the new research surrounding epigenetics was featured in the 2003’s Best American Science and Nature Writing series. Specialties: literary journalism, non-fiction writing, teaching, writing coaching, content marketing.