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PHOTOS: Rare Images Of The Beatles

Posted 09.29.2012 | Entertainment
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John Lennon famously said he felt the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," and though he would have to apologize and weather severe criticism for h...

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PHOTOS: Intimate Portraits From The Beatles' Early Years

Hank Bordowitz | Posted 11.25.2012 | Fifty
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Hank Bordowitz

Robert Whitaker had the good fortune to be the Beatle's "official photographer" throughout their recording career. His famous shots are part of a hefty new book of photos, "With The Beatles."

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Book Review: Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.03.2011 | Books
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DJ Jaffe

What's amazing about Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America (2010, Broadway P...

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Iconic Beatles Photographer Dead

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 12.02.2011 | Arts
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LONDON — Photographer Robert Whitaker, who shot some of the most famous – and infamous – images of The Beatles, has died at the age ...

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Confronting Bigots Intolerant of Alternative Mental Health Treatment

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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Despite the success of alternative mental health treatments for many people, there still exists bigotry against these approaches.

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Are Psychiatric Drugs Contributing to Mental Illness Disability?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Bruce E. Levine

Since 1955, mental illness disability rates in the U.S. have increased six-fold. At the same time, psychiatric drug use greatly increased in the 1950s and 1960s, then skyrocketed after 1988.

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Revolutionary Road, A Beautiful Mind and Truthfulness

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Bruce E. Levine

Sam Mendes and Michael Shannon remind us that people who are diagnosed with seriously mental illness can, when feeling respected, say profound things and should be taken seriously.

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