Tag Archives: mental health

Michael Kahan talks about what amazes him after 300 episodes of 'Funny in Failure,' his podcast about funny and successful people.

The legend of John Brown's 1859 abolitionist raid is ripe for re-examining, but a new play set in a home for the mentally ill doesn't measure up.

Sarid, a novelist and former IDF intelligence officer, has given us a cool-headed glimpse behind the scenes of military life in a small, troubled nation.

"There is a subtle struggle with mental health that doesn't get portrayed too much. In 'Tapped,' the hope in dealing with that is all about the connection between real people."

Michael Kahan's podcast combines thoughtful conversation with comedy in his interviews, exploring challenges and failures that celebrities encountered in their careers.

Science writer/scholar Mark Pendergrast continues on the tough subject of repressed memory in his book 'Memory Warp' (3.5 stars), which follows his 1995 book 'Victims of Memory.'

In this long but engrossing play set in a mental health clinic, Rabe outlines each character's distinctive battleground, where counselors defend and encourage them against their tendencies to self-harm.

The play buffets us from patient to patient, crisis to crisis, and dream sequence to real-life therapy. Artifice this skillful glows with a heightened authenticity. The glittering cast including Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Rhea Perlman, Mark Linn-Baker, and F. Murray Abraham.

In my humble opinion, everyone in the world could use a little more solitude.

An interview with author Roland Griffith about his medication-free methods for overcoming depression and anxiety. His own journal to mental health inspired his new book, 'Find Peace.'