"Late 19th century France saw an epidemic of young men traipsing about Europe in a trance-like "fugue state" – kind of like school holidays, only with better costumes." Susan Maushart writes about Better Than Well in The Australian.

"Think Benjamin Franklin meets Michael Jackson meets Big Pharma. Next News recently E-chatted with Elliott about the medicalization of the American Dream. " See Next News at USNews.com.

"The mystery is why an alienated suburbanite feels so much better after watching George Romero's movie Dawn of the Dead, which features bloodsucking zombies marching through an air-conditioned shopping mall in the suburbs with Muzak playing in the background, but feels a lot worse after reading an interview with me telling them what they need to do to improve their lives. Personally, I can't think of many things more likely to plunge me into existential despair than reading a book by an expert on how to achieve personal growth and self-fulfillment." See "The Bookshelf Talks with Carl Elliott" in The American Scientist.

"Instead, with prose that has a meandering, stream-of-consciousness quality -- and a dose of humor -- Elliott delves into the various ways people fiddle with their appearance and personality and, in effect, hoists a mirror in front of his 'patients.'" An interview conducted by Katy Read for Minnesota magazine. See "Identity Crisis."