A graphic novel looks at schizophrenia

Von Allen is a rookie when it comes to graphic novels. He grew up in Ontario, enjoyed wrestling and reading X-Men comics when he was older, but he never actually thought he would ever become an artist himself. Writing the story for the road god only knows was the easy part....

Cop's "Jungle Monkey" Comments Sign of Color Aroused Illness?

Officer's Extreme Color Aroused  Ideation, Emotion and Behavior Point Toward Extreme Color Aroused Disorder A Boston, MA police officer, Justin L. Barrett, has been fired after writing an e-mail to a Boston Globe columnist in which he called Harvard University'...

Have psychiatric wards changed?

"If you found yourself locked up against your will in a psychiatric ward, you would probably do your best to get out. But in 1969 a group of people did just the opposite — they tried to get in. A young American psychologist called David Rosenhan persuaded seven friends...

Discussion of "Race" Counterproductive when Debating Skin Color

The assumptions that I bring to all discussions about skin color in America are these: "Race" does not exist as a matter of biology and it never did.  The concept was invented at a time when DNA had not even been discovered, much less understood.  Now, the Federal...

Research Shows Eating Disorder Cases On the Rise

Increasing patient caseloads, professional collaboration/patient sharing and lack of medical resources are among the trends revealed in a May 2009 survey of eating disorder professionals conducted by the Eating Recovery Center (http://www.eatingrecoveryinfo.com), the premier...

Never Too Rich or Too Thin? The High Cost of Anorexia

"You can never be too rich or too thin, or so the saying goes. While there’s little chance I’ll ever get to worry about the former, I am far more familiar with the latter then I would ever care to be. I was first diagnosed with anorexia nervosa in 1984 not long after that...