Showing results for: mental illness (page 83)
Stranger than fiction
Laura Miller
L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics" is a fantastically dull, terribly written, crackpot rant -- it's also the founding text of Scientology. So, what does it actually say?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Crowe's hotel outburst captured on videotape. Shrinks condemn Cruise. Plus: Eve's porn problem.
“I try to write songs and stuff”
Thomas Bartlett
The enigmatic Brian Wilson talks to Salon about emulating McCartney and Spector -- and writing music after "Smile."
Reefer madness: Is sanity breaking out?
Silja J.A. Talvi
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling against medical marijuana and a scary
proposed snitch law, America may finally be awakening from its
decades-long stupor about recreational drugs.
Would it kill you to smile?
Heather Havrilesky
The lost souls of HBO's "Six Feet Under" are back for a fifth and final season, as stubborn and repressed and sadly human as ever.
“Cinderella Man”
Stephanie Zacharek
Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger get the talent knocked out of them by Ron Howard's heavy-handed approach to this boxing tear-jerker.
Mind games
Salon Staff
Depression, the persistence of memory, and the fallout of a political showdown -- TTers share their thoughts this week.
My brother retreated to a basement apartment with his dog
Cary Tennis
He's had some tough blows lately, but I'm concerned he's really losing it.
Ribavirin turned my husband into a psychotic monster
Cary Tennis
My husband's treatment for hepatitis C has changed him beyond recognition. Should I leave him?
Van Gogh on Prozac
Laura Miller
Treating depression doesn't quell our humanity and creativity but restores them, argues "Listening to Prozac" author Peter Kramer. So, please, let's stop making a virtue out of despair.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Chappelle mentally ill? Abdul's "distinguishing characteristic"? Culkin unmolested?
Death knell for the death penalty?
Alan Berlow
Texas legislators -- yes, Texas -- are on the verge of approving a law that could result in a decline in executions nationwide.
“Wasted Beauty” by Eric Bogosian
Hillary Frey
No one makes good decisions in this novel that follows the lives of a restless, but well-meaning, middle-aged doctor and a confused, drug-abusing fashion model.
Head case
Andrew O'Hehir
Paula Kamen has had a headache for 14 years. Her unlikely and often hilarious memoir explores the secret history of women and pain, and introduces us to a new (but very old) social phenomenon: The Tired Girls.
How many have gone to war?
Mark Benjamin
Even experts are surprised at the vast numbers of U.S. soldiers who have been deployed after 9/11. Even if troop levels in Iraq are cut next year, the military may be permanently damaged.
Lady Jane
Rebecca Traister
Actress, activist, sex kitten, entrepreneur, Christian, mogul's wife, lightning rod, for almost 70 years Jane Fonda has lived out the history of American women.
I’m bipolar and my boyfriend is a “working alcoholic”
Cary Tennis
When he drinks, it gets weird and ugly.
Waiting for G
Laura Miller
A new book rescues one of the 20th century's greatest minds from the postmodern relativists who have claimed him -- and his pal Einstein -- as their own.
Letters
Salon Staff
"I'm not insensitive to the agonies of mental illness, but I was tremendously disturbed by this display of self-justifying narcissism." Salon readers sound off on Ayelet Waldman's debut column.
SXSW Day 2: Spoon rocks “Austin City Limits”
Salon Staff
Britt Daniel takes the stage, and the legendary Dinosaur Jr. teases hopeful fans.
Living out loud — online
Ayelet Waldman
When I started blogging, I discovered a compulsive need to open the tattered edges of my emotional raincoat and expose the nasty parts beneath. But at what cost to my kids?
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