Showing results for: mental illness (page 76)
The homeless brother I cannot save
Ashley Womble
A year ago, Jay traded my parents' home for the street. But the more I try to help him, the more I lose myself
Doctors don’t rat out their incompetent colleagues
Carla K. Johnson
Study: 17 percent of physicians knew a co-worker was impaired on the job, only a third reported it
Pro-ana websites abound
Jamie Kapalko
A study finds that websites encouraging anorexia are "alarmingly easy to access"
Jon Stewart on Obama’s executive power record
Glenn Greenwald
The Comedy Central star bashes the president's horrendous record on civil liberties and terrorism
Man stabs 15 students, 1 teacher in south China
William Foreman
Knife-wielding man attacks primary school on the same day another man executed for killing eight students
“Anatomy of an Epidemic”: The hidden damage of psychiatric drugs
Jed Lipinski
An award-winning science reporter looks at the history of mental illness in America -- with disturbing results
Condemned Utah killer will face firing squad
Jennifer Dobner
Ronnie Lee Gardner chooses old-fashioned execution method, which is not an option in any other state
Straight to DVD: “Tenderness” and “Peacock”
Bob Calhoun
Russell Crowe! Susan Sarandon! Crazy teens and cross-dressers! We go semi-upscale with two new releases
Jesse James detoxes the vague, unspecified way
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sandra Bullock's husband is the latest headline-grabber to seek in-patient help for stuff and whatever
GOP thrilled: Cantor really was threatened
Joan Walsh
His office wasn't shot up, but he did get a threat -- from a guy who had attacked Obama. And the movie "Babe"
Women as terrorist weapons in Russia
Tracy Clark-Flory
Female suicide bombers, like those suspected in the Moscow attack, are stealthier and garner more media attention
“The Genius in All of Us”
Laura Miller
A new book persuasively argues that extraordinary intelligence and talent are not genetic gifts
Making a whale into a killer
Jed Lipinski
In the wake of the SeaWorld attack, an expert explains how captivity drives orcas crazy -- and can turn them deadly
“We’ve Got Issues”: Big Pharma might not be lying
Amy Tuteur
Judith Warner's brave new book upends the myth that our children are being overmedicated
The case of the vanishing “Growing Pains” actor
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Andrew Koenig was a former teen sitcom star, but he battled something far more insidious than youthful fame
“Shutter Island”: Scorsese goes crazy!
Andrew O'Hehir
Trapped in a mental hospital, in a hurricane! With a boiled Leo DiCaprio and a drugged-out Hardy Boys plot
Proposed autism diagnosis changes anger “Aspies”
Lindsey Tanner
People with Asperger's syndrom see proposal to lump the conditions under one diagnosis as attack on their identity
Disaster expert: Why it’s so bad
Thomas Rogers
Are famine, disease and looting big concerns? Surprisingly, no. But there's plenty more to make this picture bleak
A big double standard for Obama
Joan Walsh
Bush took a week to talk about the shoe bomber and then tried him in court. So why is Cheney savaging Obama?
Woman charged in murder of pregnant friend
Thomas Schaller
Charges filed in bizarre, sad case of woman who killed pregnant friend and cut out her fetus
Crazy of the Year!
Salon Staff
2009 will be remembered as the year that one man's craziness gripped America with fear
How memoirs took over the literary world
Laura Miller
A new book says: Fiction is dead, long live the age of autobiography
Military retains religious zealot, boots gays
Darren Hutchinson
The Army -- ever-vigilant about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- failed to follow up on suspicions about shooter
Keeping kids safe after Columbine — at what cost?
Kate Harding
Under a zero-tolerance policy to prevent school violence, a 6-year-old is kicked out for carrying camping gear
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