Ethan Watters is an American journalist. He is the author of articles for The New York Times Magazine, Spin, Details, Mother Jones, Glamour,^[1] GQ, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine as well as books.^[2] He has also appeared on a number of media outlets such as Good Morning America, Talk of the Nation, and CNN.^[3]

Watters is married and has children. He and his family live in San Francisco, California.^[3]

In 1994, Watters co-founded, along with two others, the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, which now has 33 offices and serves as a workspace for over 50 writers each month. He also teaches classes here.^[3] His work focuses on psychiatry and social psychology.^[4]

• Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?. Bloomsbury USA. 2003. ISBN 1-58234-441-8.
• Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. Free Press. 2010. ISBN 1-4165-8708-X.
• With co-author Richard Ofshe
  • Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria. University of California Press. 1996. ISBN 0-520-20583-9.
  • Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried. Scribner. 1999. ISBN 0-684-83584-3.