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Can We Explain Hallucinations?
Hallucination, what is it? Free wandering of the mind, the ability to see parallel universes, a soul’s flight through a continuum of variants, or just a brain malfunction? Is it a disease or a normal physiological reaction to a specific stimulus or set of stimuli? By Viatcheslav Wlassoff.
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Toward a Pathology of the Possessed
Schizophrenia’s effects are often discussed in metaphors. What is it like to live with those metaphors? By Esmé Weijun Wang.
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The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525
One year after a young pilot plunged a German airliner into the remote French Alps—a suicide that transfixed and horrified the world—Joshua Hammer investigates what really happened that day
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When the Hospital Fires the Bullet
More and more hospital guards across the country carry weapons. For Alan Pean, seeking help for mental distress, that resulted in a gunshot to the chest. By Elisabeth Rosenthal. (Feb. 12)
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What It’s Like to Have Your Severe Depression Treated With a Hallucinogenic Drug
“It’s like you’re watching your own brain.”
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Gay "Cures" Are Harmful And Don't Work, Says World's Largest Body Of Psychiatrists
Exclusive: The World Psychiatric Association has condemned so-called conversion therapy and called on governments around the world to decriminalise homosexuality.
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Scientists Have Identified 11 Indicators of a ‘Good Death’
Admit it, you’re morbidly curious. By Sarah Emerson.
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What It’s Like Being a Sudden Savant
Before her accident Heather Thompson was, by any measure, very successful. She lived just outside Seattle’s urban sprawl, was a CEO and a nationally respected business strategist, married, and had a two-year-old daughter. “I was at the pinnacle of my career,” she said. Then… By Tanya Basu.
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Who Gets To Be The "Good Schizophrenic"?
When you're labeled as crazy, the "right" kind of diagnosis could mean the difference between a productive life and a life sentence.
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The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia
Jesse Jarnow’s new book complicates and extends the history of LSD and sixties counterculture.
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Walking Corpse Syndrome: When The Alive Think They’ve Died
Zombies have become a mainstream way to suspend our disbelief and engage with the land of make-believe. However, they may be walking among us in real life thanks to a rare mental illness called Cotard’s Syndrome. By Jaleesa Baulkman. (May 25, ’16)
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As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. And, sometimes, demonic possession.
In the late 1980s, I was introduced to a self-styled Satanic high priestess. She called herself a witch and dressed the part, with flowing dark clothes and black eye shadow around to her temples. In our many discussions, she acknowledged worshipping Satan as his “queen.” I’m a man of science and a lover of history; after studying the classics at Princeton, I trained in psychiatry at Yale and in psychoanalysis at Columbia. That background is why a Catholic priest had asked my professional opinion, which I offered pro bono, about whether this woman was suffering from a mental disorder.
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When the Body Attacks the Mind
A physiological theory of mental illness. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff .
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Here’s what ‘free will’ looks like in your brain
Scientists have for the first time watched the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Here’s what they saw. By Jill Rosen.
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Read the investigation: Insane. Invisible. In danger
Florida cut $100 million from its mental hospitals. Chaos quickly followed. By Leonora LaPeter Anto, Michael Braga, Anthony Cormier, and John Pendygraft.
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Remembering John Cade, the Australian doctor who tamed bipolar disorder
In the late 1940s, just outside Melbourne, an Australian psychiatrist called John Cade made a discovery which would improve the lives of millions with bipolar disorder, yet he's virtually unknown for his work.
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Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD
Investigative journalist Alan Schwarz sounds the alarm. By Gareth Cook.
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Maybe We Should Call Psychiatry Something Else
Research shows that changing the name could help reduce the stigma of mental illness. By Nathaniel P. Morris.
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The Shrink as Secret Agent: Jung, Hitler, and the OSS
At the height of World War II, the U.S. intelligence service recruited world-famous Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung as ‘Agent 488’ to work against the Nazis. By Christopher Dickey.
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Freud’s Discontents
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance? By Samuel Moyn.
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