Madness makes for interesting narrative. But it's all in the service of the story. It's not any more real than the orcs and elves in The Hobbit.
The myth that creativity and madness are inherently linked has a certain romantic appeal, but it does little -- if anything -- to promote human well-being.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mitt Romney clearly is not running to be the nation's top sports fan. The GOP presidential candidate says he won't be fillin...
My first love was treated with anti-psychotic drugs and later, much later, was able to have a fairly normal life. Fortunately, he did not have a gun -- or I wouldn't be alive today.
Justice Scalia seems to have forgotten that the American Revolution was a revolution against tyranny of any kind -- not a revolution to install a tyranny of the majority.
The Goo Goo Doll's John Rzeznik's has some advice for up-and-coming acts: "Don't worry about getting famous because that means nothing. There are a lot of really useless people in this world that are famous."
Although professionalism often means a striving for excellence, American professionalism has too frequently meant an association with a stubborn failu...
Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.
"What's that?" I asked. "A literary fortress," he said, "And a metaphor." I walked around the battlements. Thick hardback tomes lay beneath stacks of paperbacks rising into walls and turrets.
There is no such thing as a 'naked credit default swap.' Buying and selling avatars on Second Life using virtual money has more economic legitimacy.
