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Raised in upstate New York, Szalavitz graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School in 1983 and attended Columbia University. She graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College.
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Best known as the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, a 2006 exposé documenting abuse in the insufficiently regulated, troubled teen treatment industry, she has written many other books including, Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential — and Endangered (Morrow, 2010) and The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (Basic, 2006), both coauthored with Doctor Bruce Doctorate. Perry and co-authored Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, with Doctor Joseph Volpicelli. Paul Raeburn at Knight Science Journalism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology calls her "..the best writer I know of on addiction and related issues. She blogs for the Huffington Post.
She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Elle, Salon, Redbook and other major publications.
Szalavitz is an investigative reporter for Time Magazine and since 2004 has been a senior fellow at George Mason University"s media watchdog group STATS.org
In Spring 2016, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction was published by Saint Martin"s Press.
