Showing results for: mental illness (page 93)
I think therefore I tickle
Jose Klein
In his new book, "The Ticklish Subject," renegade philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers a mind-searing, polyvalent glimpse into the heart of modern freedom.
Web of doom
Scott Rosenberg
Post-Littleton, paranoid media pundits seem blind to the line between the computer screen and reality -- just like the killers.
The disturbing case of “Ben H.,” the messianic marksman
Justin Frank
Never himself, even in childhood, and armed with a high power delusional system, acting was a perfect profession for this patient.
Letters to the Editor
Salon Staff
Kosovar refugees aren't like Palestinians; mommies worry because they like it.
Post of the Week
From Table Talk
Movies: The Mystery of Hitchcock, Mind and Spirit: Mental Illness and PC language,Mothers Who Think: Does your mommyhood define you?
Therapy is all talk
Joy Rothke
A new book argues that psychotherapy is better at recycling cultural myths than figuring out what's in your head.
The working mom myth
Shari Thurer
Another study has shown that having a mother who works doesn't harm kids. But, a psychotherapist argues, you don't need dubious social science to know that.
Raging hormones
Celeste Fremon
When I gave birth at nearly 40, I never considered the fact that 12 years later my son and I would both be having hot flashes.
What I learned from losing my mind
Faulkner Fox
How a week at a yoga retreat saved me from the perfect parenting frenzy.
The power of positive shrinking
Carol Lloyd
Is the new optimistic movement in psychology a theoretical breakthrough or a professional survival tactic?
The King of death
Andrew O'Hehir
Horrormeister Stephen King has turned mankind's oldest fear into an excruciatingly addictive body of work. For those new to the master's nightmare world, Andrew O'Hehir recommends five books.
Suicide watch on the Net
David Cassel
Suicide watch on the Net: By David Cassel. When chat room participants say they're going to kill themselves, what should service providers do?
Kenneth S.: A man obsessed
Dr. Justin Frank
A Washington psychoanalyst analyzes 'Kenneth S.' and his odd fixation on the president's sex life.
Movie Feature: Princess Charming
Charles Taylor
After years of being the bad girl, Drew Barrymore finally gets the role she deserves.
America's war on children
Joan Walsh
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West have written a call to arms for American parents. But their big-tent strategy leaves us stranded at the front.
Possessed in Indonesia
Brett Harris
Brett Harris describes a close encounter with a ghost during a stay on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Bitter fame
Jay Parini
Ted Hughes' long silence about his life with Sylvia Plath was considered by many as a sign that he did not care. But in "Birthday Letters," his book of brilliant, evocative poems about their life together, one begins to understand, for the first time, the nature of their love, and its tragic dimensions.
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