What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains
An early scene in Frank Bures’s The Geography of Madness describes the author wandering through…
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Thank You, Ben Carson, For Your Latest Anti-Muslim Rant
“Schizophrenic” is an upgrade.
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This weekend, a second attack by a knife-wielding teenage girl was attributed to the online Slender Man mythos. While the attack could…
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After the Tucson shootings, a prayer for Jared Loughner.
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Compelled by Faith: When Prayer is Not Good For You
Abby Sher collected thumbtacks and paper clips, traced the patterns on her wallpaper, and prayed fervidly to avert disaster. In another era she might have been just another pious eccentric; today she’s a recovering obsessive-compulsive who has renounced (most of) her faith.
Read MoreMental Illness, A Spiritual Deficiency?
A new campaign aims to change attitudes around mental illness.
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