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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.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Traitors’ Resurrects the Legend of John Brown
Tag Archives: Mental Illness
Theater Review (NYC): ‘World Builders: A Love Story’ by Johnna Adams
Marvelous performances light up this too-long two-hander about what might happen when two people who've lived much of their adult lives in their own worlds are sent to a mental health facility to receive an experimental cure.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Bedlam’s Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope’ by Mark Rubinstein, M.D.
'Bedlam's Door' by Mark Rubinstein M.D. allows the reader to peer into a world very few sane people ever see, filled with empathy and integrity.
Read More »Interview with M.D. Moore, author of ‘Waiting for the Cool Kind of Crazy’
First drafts suck. Second drafts hopefully don’t suck as bad, but probably suck a little also. Maybe your third draft will be ready to go, but maybe not.
Read More »The Truth About Hugs, Oxytocin, and Mental Illness
Mental illness cannot be scared off or hugged away.
Read More »The Real Reason for Underfunding Suicide Prevention
The reality that a dead person doesn't cost anything drives opinions and decisions.
Read More »Book Review: Call Me Tuesday by Leigh Byrne
A first person account of child abuse.
Read More »Book Review: Asylum: Hollywood Tales from My Great Depression: Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery, and Being My Mother’s Son by Joe Pantoliano
Book Review: Outside The Lines by Amy Hatvany
Amy Hatvany's third novel deals with a complex father-daughter relationship.
Read More »Book Review: Mayan Night by Richard Weekley
Poetry for the end of the world and beyond.
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