Movie madhouses function in different ways. They are castles of torture, ineffective and temporary quarantines for crazed killers, metaphors for patriarchy, silly places for comedic turns, the list ...

Cured, as I noted in my September 24, 2021 CounterPunch review, is an upcoming PBS documentary (October 11) about how gay activists forced the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973 to rescind ...

LOS ANGELES — The 1941 film “The Wolf Man” presents Larry Talbot’s transformation from man to wolf as a form of schizophrenia. So little was known about mental illnesses then, the explanation may have ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

Embryonic psychos will view "The Feeling of Rejection," a movie dealing with the psychiatric problems of childhood, at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Emerson D. Sponsored by the Social Relations Society, the ...