Showing results for: mental illness (page 83)
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?
My husband is entranced with a woman who is manic-depressive
Cary Tennis
We're great friends with this couple, but my husband seems a little too taken with the unstable wife.
Letters
Salon Staff
Fans, detractors and Lovecraft-inspired writers respond to Laura Miller's "Master of Disgust."
Master of disgust
Laura Miller
H.P. Lovecraft built his reputation as America's greatest bad writer on a loathsome edifice of unspeakable, hideous filth whose nauseating tendrils reach into the nightmarish depths of hyperbole.
The exorcist
Rebecca Traister
In his new book, mega-selling self-help author M. Scott Peck asserts that demonic possession is real -- and tells the story of two exorcisms he conducted himself.
The worst of Times
Andrew O'Hehir
Two new books on the New York Times relive its recent crises. But while the Jayson Blair scandal made for splashy headlines, the real question is how the country's leading newspaper will recover from spreading lies about Iraq's WMD.
Why do I feel so uneasy around my father?
Cary Tennis
Did something happen in my childhood that I can't remember?
“My heart is back”
Lynn Harris
Talk therapy only increases the suffering for some trauma victims -- but alternative treatments offer new hope.
Justice for Bhopal survivors
Mark Hertsgaard
The worst industrial disaster in history killed 22,000 people and counting. Twenty years later, activists are working with Amnesty International to haul those responsible into court.
Mother of all home movies
Peter L'Official
Jonathan Caouette explains how he captured his turbulent childhood and his mentally ill mother in his documentary "Tarnation" -- which he created on his computer for $218.
Confessions of a dangerous mind
Sheerly Avni
Joe Loya has a successful career as a journalist and performer in San Francisco, but in his new memoir, he comes clean about his first career path -- robbing banks.
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