Showing results for: mental illness (page 84)
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Does dropping a bad reality show make you feel like a quitter? Plus: It's a mixed-up, upside-down world, as Cinemax explores schizophrenia, Bill Clinton shows up on "The Daily Show," and Andy Dick dates one of his former assistants!
The Fix
Salon Staff
The Vatican is upset by naked, pregnant Monica Belluci photo; Rivers calls Crowe "arrogant" and unsexy; and Clinton turns down SNL but says "yes" to Jon Stewart.
Down and out and on the move
Michelle Goldberg
Leading a feisty army of homeless people, fiery activist Cheri Honkala is about to descend on the Republican Convention.
Tales of torture
Vikram Dodd, Tania Branigan
Questioned at gunpoint, shackled, forced to pose naked. British detainees tell their stories of Guantanamo Bay.
Dark victory
Christopher Dreher
Jim Knipfel has lost almost all his vision, suffered life-threatening seizures, attempted suicide and spent time in a mental hospital. He's also one of the driest, funniest memoirists working today.
Remote “Control”
Andrew O'Hehir
The season's first smash documentary shows why the war we're seeing looks so different overseas. Plus: A remarkable movie about being crazy, from someone who should know.
The great hair battle
Bryan Miller
My overly thick hair has proved resistant to water, wind and a collection of hair products -- so I finally decided to do something about it.
How free is free will?
Farhad Manjoo
Lauren Slater's new book about 10 landmark psychological experiments has ignited a firestorm in the psychological establishment. But whatever her shortcomings as a reporter, Slater is asking profound questions about human nature and its limitations
One minute from abnormal
James C. Moore
A Texas reporter explores Karen Hughes' cultlike devotion to George W. Bush.
Karen Hughes’ high-octane gall
Joe Conason
With amazing chutzpah, the Bush flack says reporters should ask more questions about John Kerry's military history. What they really ought to explore is her role in covering up Bush's spotty National Guard record.
Twin Study
Stacey Richter
We shared the same placenta, but everything else about Samantha and me was different. Or was it?
Letters
Salon Staff
Hey, I'm not odious! says NPR's Scott Simon. Plus: Women do lie about rape, say readers of Cathy Young's piece on Kobe Bryant and rape shield laws.
Abused husband
Cary Tennis
My wife beat me for years and the one time I fought back I got fired for it.
How much should we know about the sex life of Kobe Bryant’s accuser?
Cathy Young
Rape shield laws were created to protect victims from having their sex lives used against them in court. But where's the line between protections for victims and the constitutional rights of defendants?
A harrowing, inspiring “Boy’s Life”
Rebecca Traister
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy talks about the passion for social justice she shares with the father she never knew, and changing the world with her camera, one story at a time.
Miscarriage of justice
Robert J. Howe
Imagine a future where the punishment for not having your baby is a life sentence of hard labor.
Damaged goods
Cary Tennis
I got engaged, then found out she is bipolar. How can I break it off with the least amount of hurt for both of us?
Off the couch
Meredith Maran
After 40 years -- and more than $100,000 in bills -- I finally gave up on the talking cure.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Yesterday's anti-Semitic screed against billionaire George Soros was nauseating -- but it won't be the last coming from the "old" far right.
“Her Husband”
Kamy Wicoff
Diane Middlebrook talks about why the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a soaring success despite his infidelity and her suicide -- and why promising to be sexually faithful is folly.
Letters
Salon Staff
"This nut job would be thrilled to be the last of her kind": Readers respond to John Sundman's "How I Decoded the Human Genome" and "One Vote for the New Eugenics."
How I decoded the human genome
John Sundman
We are becoming the masters of our own DNA. But does that give us the right to decide that my children should never have been born?
“You burn out fast when you demagogue”
Kerry Lauerman
Tucker Carlson on why he doesn't like Karen Hughes, what makes Bill O'Reilly "dangerous" and the reasons he prefers CNN to Fox.
Your biggest fan!
Tucker Carlson
I had just left the CNN set when I was handed a letter from a lawyer saying his client would soon be charging me with rape. My life, and assumptions about sex scandals, would change forever.
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