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HAS this ever happened to you? You step under the shower after a long day and turn on the faucet. Standing there as hot water washes over you and then suddenly, an idea strikes.
A review of William Styron's life reveals that psychiatry and its treatments may have contributed to his depressive episodes.
Some of Harvard’s best-known readers, writers weigh in.
In the late 1800s, explains New York-based photographer Corinne May Botz, Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot held weekly lectures at the Salpêtrière teaching hospital amphitheater, where he would display women suffering from what was then known as “hysteria.” More than a century later, Botz traces the often uncomfortable intersections of theater and illness in Bedside Manner, for which she documented standardized patients, or professional actors used in instructing medical students in interacting with and treating a diverse set of cases.
In society, mental illness is viewed as a disability; an unfortunate stain on someoneâs life. The ignorant view people with mental illnesses as helpless and make it their prerogative to fix them. However, popular writers, composers, artists and even presidents have been diagnosed with varying mental illnesses â and all innovated and found success in their respective fields. While some psychiatric workers â along with friends or family of those diagnosed â believe that mental illness is a hindrance, mental illness can explore new ways of thought that fray the line ...