Current Materials relating to Mental Health

Current Materials

Articles and references below link to outside web pages and concern current issues relating to mental health. The lists are not intended to cover any one aspect of mental health in depth, but serve rather to highlight unique perspectives and findings of particular interest.

Summer 2008
Gene Hunt Hints at Cause of Bipolar Disorder (NY Times)

Visualizing Schizophrenia (NY Times)

The Bipolar Buddha (The Globe and Mail)

'If this is a disorder, and not me, who am I?' (The Globe and Mail)

Scarred for Life (The Portland Phoenix)

Breakdown: Canada's Mental Health Crisis (The Globe and Mail)

Spring 2008
'Disability can have an up side' (BBC)

Lotus Therapy (NY Times)

Patient Voices: A.D.H.D. (NY Times)

'Mad Pride' Fights a Stigma (NY Times)

Quieting the Demons and Giving Art a Voice (NY Times)

Pain as an Art Form (NY Times)

Who Are We? Coming of Age on Antidepressants (NY Times)

Patterns: Dyslexia as Different as Day and Night (NY Times)

The Murky Politics of Mind-Body (NY Times)

Psychotherapy for All: An Experiment (NY Times)

Is depression good for you? (BBC)

Come on, Get Happy (Philadelphia Weekly)

Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy (New England Journal of Medicine)

When Love Is Not Enough (Easy Bay Express)

The Language of Autism (NY Times)

'Have You Ever Been in Psychotherapy, Doctor?' (NY Times)

When Anxiety Is at the Table (NY Times)

A Childs View of Attention Deficit (NY Times)

Spring 2007
Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head? (NY Times)

Her Autistic Brothers (NY Times)

A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects (NY Times)

In Rigorous Test, Talk Therapy Works for Panic Disorder (NY Times)

Fall 2006
Alone In Autism (Creative Loafing)

Diary of a Mad Man: Exploring the rights and wrongs of independent life for the mentally ill (Houston Press)

Wanting Babies Like Themselves, Some Parents Choose Genetic Defects (NY Times)

Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isn't Clear (NY Times)

Proof Is Scant on Psychiatric Drug Mix for You (NY Times)

One Spoonful at a Time (NY Times)

What's Wrong With a Child? Psychiatrists Often Disagree (NY Times)

A Neuroscientific Look at Speaking in Tonges (NY Times)

If No Icelanders Admit to Feeling Blue, Are They? (NY Times)

In a Land Torn by Violence, Too Many Troubling Deaths (NY Times)

Voices in the head 'are normal' (BBC)

Living With Love, Chaos and Haley (NY Times) - personal experiences as told by a young girl with "multiple, complex diagnoses" and her family.

An Analyst Questions the Self-Perpetuating Side of Therapy (New York Times)

Freud Meets Buddha: Therapy for Immigrants; Disorders From the East Emerge Here (New York Times), Making Room on the Couch for Culture (NY Times) - similarities and differences in experience across cultures.

Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes (New York Times)

Understanding and Empathy Aren't Enough (New York Times)

To Fight Stuttering, Doctors Look at the Brain (NY Times)

Detecting awarness in the Vegetative State (Science), Mental Activity Seen in a Brain Gravely Injured (NY Times)- fMRIs suggest responsive neural activity in brain-injured patient.

Psychiatrist Is Among Five Chosen for Medical Award (NY Times)- Aaron T. Beck, developer of cognitive therapy, wins Lasker Award.

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