daniel amen is the most popular psychiatrist in america. he is a double board-certified psychiatrist who's written ten "new york times" best-selling books including the mega best-seller,

is america well informed? am and caicans be relied upon to set the wrongs to right? - at times, at times, generalizations aregenera, and i would not say the american people fo are not ed, many are not, they don't want to be informed. so they move through life with a limited supply of what it takes to think critically, but many others are, it's like journalism. i don't speak of the media anymore because o'reilly's in the media and bill moyers is in the media and we are different journalists. da but no, i think with the complexity of thee ssues, although in thys they were complex issues of forming a government er and was no rapid communication. i don't think people are as informed as we need for democracy to function for government to be held accountable for huge economic institutions to checked with balance. the whole secret of democracy is not that people are virtuous or notu it's that some are vs sometimes and they're not virtuous other times, d me are not virtuous and then they are. what we need is checks and balances t it balance of power, when both parties are tr

something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. you were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, av you wouldn't had much of a shot. how did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got? - i was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. if you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men partic warly men in the town wld say, "he's a comer let's help him. "he's a poor boy let's help him." so the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the city commission let me come in and sit-in on their meetings. i was just constantly touched by people a older thanwho saw something in me so they just kept moving me. but you know in those days the gap of income frinequality was not so great.r. one of my best friends was anne blalock, who was the daughter of the richest man in town. but we went to the same school, e we went to the srties, we went to the same dances. and i never felt uncomfortable in the presence of the kids in town whose parents ture really the