Ever wanted to go beyond the doors of a psychiatric hospital? To have a key to the locked units? To witness the day-to-day at a legendary institution mired in mystery and folklore? Weekends at Bellevue, ...
The impact of violence against women is too often masked by silence. Its continuation depends on silence. Distance keeps us safe and unless one personally experiences violence or knows someone who has, many of us ...
Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...
Bobbe Tyler, author, nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator for Lucasfilm Ltd, has written a book of the type, and in the style, that has kept her alive all these years. Her book, Searching ...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most difficult conditions for anyone to bear. Many who encounter life-threatening events or situations that threaten physical or emotional safety become burdened by a variety of intense ...
In our society, eating disorders are mostly misunderstood and glamorized. We’re told that everyone with an eating disorder is skin and bones. That just by looking at someone we can easily spot the starvation, the ...
In the U.S., 40 million adults have an anxiety disorder. Author Patricia Pearson is one of them: She is a regular visitor to Flu Wiki, an online community that fears an impending influenza outbreak. She ...
One of the more humbling things about being a senior therapist is realizing the cases where we missed it because we didn't have adequate training at the time or because the disorder hadn't been adequately ...
When I was in graduate school in the mid-1970s, I felt strangely out of sync with my fellow students. Then I happened on Worlds of Pain, a groundbreaking book by Lillian Rubin about working-class life ...
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
By Norah Vincent
New York: Viking, December 2008
Hardcover, 283 pages
$25.95
Immersion journalism, as it’s called, can be kind of fun on a limited basis. In my days ...
There’s plenty of wisdom in this book, provided you arm yourself with an unabridged copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, and perhaps an advanced degree or two, before picking it up.
Hollis, a teacher at the ...
Those of us who are nearing retirement from work as a psychotherapist have been privileged to witness extraordinary changes over the course of our careers. Few therapists I know have clung solely to their original ...
The Lives They Left Behind is an intriguing historical tale about the Willard Psychiatric Center, located in Seneca Lake, New York. Although it operated for 126 years with over 54,000 people calling it "home" during ...
If you're reading this website, you've probably heard the term emotional intelligence before, but you may not know exactly what it is. And even if you know what it is, you may not really have ...
This essay will discuss the online self-help book Psychological Self-Help by Dr. Clayton Tucker-Ladd. Since late 2004 I have had the good fortune to be able to discuss the book with Clay via ...