Showing results for: mental illness (page 87)
Colors flies over the cuckoo’s nest
Douglas Cruickshank
The Benetton publication's latest issue on mental illness puts respectable newsmagazines to shame.
“A Beautiful Mind”
Charles Taylor
Ron Howard and Russell Crowe team up to produce a very dumb movie about a very smart man.
Trauma culture
Charles Taylor
From Oklahoma City to New York, we've turned violent human loss into epic narratives of suffering and patriotism. Does this help people heal or hurt them?
“Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens” by Patricia Lynne Duffy
Alison Motluk
For people with synesthesia, letters, words and numbers have their own colors, and you can smell the shape of milk
When being holy hurts
Suzy Hansen
An historian talks about the modern face of "sacred pain," which religions use it the most and how self-cutters carry on the tradition.
This time the germs are real
Amy Traverso
For sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a real-live anthrax scare can mean years of misery.
2001: A great year for movies
Andrew O'Hehir
While the studios distracted us with big-budget behemoths, a renaissance in art film unfolded before our eyes.
If I tell her she isn’t invited, she’ll come anyway
Kyanna Sutton
As my wedding day approaches, I am a hostage to my mother's mental illness. I am petrified of what she may do on the day.
Long-distance love
Cary Tennis
My boyfriend smells good and I can't imagine kissing anyone else, but he lives in New Zealand! Our advice man consults on this and other conundrums.
Imagine there’s no movie stars
Carina Chocano
David Copperfield and his hot new girlfriend do John Lennon. Plus: "Pasadena," loathsome "Married Man" and the funniest show on TV.
Deciphering suicide
Jeffrey Eugenides
The hijackers lacked the heroism of martyrs. All they had was the violence
All better now!
Amy Reiter
Heche: Sane now, crazy before; Prince Charles cheers for scantily clad dancers; Lee Majors on the dangers of bionic manhood.
“E-Book Outcast” and “The Mind of a Killer”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to M.J. Rose's story about electronic publishing and our interview with neurologist Jonathan Pincus.
The mind of a killer
Suzy Hansen
A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated.
“Defusing the explosive child” and “A child’s first funeral”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the war between the psychologist and the pediatrician. Plus: Angry readers say, "Kill the gerbil!"
Katharine the great
Harry Jaffe
Kay Graham's unintentional rise to glory inspired the Washington Post to a greatness the paper has never again achieved since she stepped away from it.
Letters of the week
Salon Staff
Readers call Jason D. Hill a eugenicist, provide testimonials on the joy of antidepressants and tell the parents of cyberbullies to rein in their kids.
Depression mania!
Maria Russo
Why has a cultural cottage industry sprung up around the most isolating of illnesses?
She killed her kids, but we must forgive her
Susan Kushner Resnick
Like Andrea Yates, I suffered from postpartum depression -- and it taught me just
how flimsy this thing we call sanity is.
The nightmare of recovery
Laura Miller
A powerful new book on the drug war's trenches argues that treatment is the answer -- but our current system dooms more addicts than it helps.
The Jeffords affair
Arianna Huffington
Had President Bush and Karl Rove heeded the final lesson of the Atwater School of Hardball Politics, Jeffords might still be a Republican.
We believe children aren’t the future
Lori Steele
Infertility makes us snide and courageous and sad.
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