Showing results for: mental illness (page 90)
Messing with totems and taboos
Rob Breznsy
Your horoscope for this week. Do the planets control our fates? Hell, no!
The heart of the matter
Leah Kohlenberg
Is Dick Cheney healthy enough to endure the rigors of a vice presidential campaign?
Survival of the dullest
Carina Chocano
The future is here, and instead of 15 minutes of fame everyone's going to get several episodes' worth. Can anonymity survive "Survivor"?
In sickness and in hell
Susan McCarthy
Before you marry, find out if the two of you are compatible when you are ill. It could save you years of anguish.
Britain’s first software billionaire
Wendy M. Grossman
At Autonomy, Mike Lynch creates programs that act like people do, analyzing words and extracting ideas.
One nation, under the weather
Lauren Slater
Stung by a pan in the New York Times, an "illness memoirist" defends her art.
“Mockingbird Years” and “The Last Good Freudian”
Laura Miller
Two memoirists look back on their many years of psychotherapy -- and what they see ain't pretty.
George Segal
Daryl Lindsey
His sculpture depicted people doing ordinary things, but his work showing gays and lesbians ignited controversy -- and made an inestimable contribution to American culture.
Swallowing ephedra
Shannon Brownlee
The wildly popular herbal diet aid can be dangerous for some people. But don't expect the FDA to crack down.
The real Sylvia Plath
Kate Moses
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals support a little-known theory that PMS drove her to suicide. Second of two parts.
The lunacy of the mental health care system
Letters to the Editor
"That poor tormented girl -- and all the others like her."
Bush may stall Texas execution
Alicia Montgomery
The Republican hopeful bags military brass briefing and rises in
Western polls. Gore divides environmentalists as Nader gains ground among
greens.
The real Sylvia Plath
Kate Moses
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals reveal the poet's true demons -- and support a little-known theory about what drove her to suicide. First of two parts.
Should shrinks probe the violent fantasies of patients?
Dawn MacKeen
They often don't. And that failure can be tragic.
Who will care for the crazy?
J.B. Orenstein
She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones. First of two parts.
“Of Two Minds” By T.M. Luhrmann
Laura Miller
A subtle study of the conflict between talk-oriented
and drug-oriented psychotherapy -- and a frightening
demonstration of how medical budget cutters are betraying
the mentally ill and putting the rest of us at risk.
Public schools, private choices
Louis Freedberg
Al Gore could have sent his son to Wilson High, a
public school, but chose nearby Sidwell Friends, which is
private. Here's a look at both.
Prozac indignation
Craig Offman
How a little-known Harvard clinician needled sleeping giant Eli Lilly
Mary Ellen Mark
Andrew Long
With her strongly personal approach, she documents the lives of people on the edges of society -- from the prostitutes of Bombay to the street kids of Seattle to the cowboys of small-town Texas rodeos.
Island fever
Dylan James
I was willing to spring my gay porn past on my unsuspecting family if it would get me on the TV show "Survivor." But would it?
Psych meds for kids: Too much, too soon?
Lawrence H. Diller
Some psychiatric drugs do help children, but school and family are crucial, too.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
Are black leaders hypocritical in their response to hate crime? Plus: Limbaugh's rush to judgment on McCain; do teachers necessitate tutors?
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