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Lights, Camera, Deny
From Hollywood to real life, decades of managed care rage escalate, culminating in a tragic act of violence in Manhattan.
Heal Me: Childhood Trauma in The Who’s Tommy with Dr. Anthony Tobia
The Who’s Tommy is used to explore psychiatric trauma, with its iconic songs helping teach mental health concepts to students and professionals.
“No Escape from Reality:” Thomas Kuhn and the Reliability of Medical Knowledge
Medical knowledge isn't static; paradigm shifts can upend what we know, leaving patients and professionals navigating sudden, unpredictable changes.
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
Leland plunges into the country of the blind, which for him is a “teeming variety of their stories of struggle, adaptation, and adventure.
“I’m Filled with Desire”: Eros & Illness with David B. Morris
Eros fuels desires in illness, offering healing through art, literature, and companionship—David B. Morris reveals its transformative power for patients seeking meaning.
What Desire Will Shape a World We’re Left?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail on Covid
Four years post-pandemic, we must reflect not only on technocratic solutions but on deeper desires, using poetry to express collective and personal experiences.
AIDS in the Comics: The Graphic Memoir Taking Turns with MK Czerwiec
Exploring the HIV/AIDS crisis through graphic memoir, we discover how the comic medium uniquely conveys emotional, medical, and human aspects that traditional texts often miss.
Life Imitates Art: Covid-19 Edition
Human reactions to pandemics, from literature spanning centuries, uncannily mirror those seen during COVID-19, suggesting repeating patterns of behavior, though views on our future remain divided.
Painting with Empathy: The Expressionist Art of Edvard Munch with Curator Øystein Ustvedt
Edvard Munch’s emotional portrayal of illness and suffering offers profound insights for health professionals and their education.
He Wants to Itch at It: A Novel, Play, and Movie Imagining Dementia
Through arts, dementia is imagined: a novel, a play, and film explore disorientation, denial, and emotional wilderness."
When Neurons Get Tied Up in Knots: Human Fallibility and Folly in Asylum Psychiatry
Exploring mental illness through art and history: films, books, and blogs on lobotomies, psychiatry, and the search for cures.
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