By BENEDICT CAREY : NANTUCKET, Mass. — If the three deaths were connected, no one on the island could say exactly how. The first, a 15-year-old, killed himself at his home near the high school in February 2007. The second, a 17-year-old ‘A’ student and an athlete, committed suicide last October.
The third, a 16-year-old found […]
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by admin
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Findings
By JOHN TIERNEY
PASADENA, Calif. — The two students in Southern California had just been introduced during an experiment to test their “interpersonal chemistry.” The man, a graduate student, dutifully asked the undergraduate woman what her major was.
“Spanish and sociology,” she said.
“Interesting,” he said. ‘‘I was a sociology major. What are you going to […]
Posted on January 29th, 2008 by admin
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Mind
By BENEDICT CAREY
The ideal New Year’s Eve party would come with a psychological voucher, redeemable the next day for a post-mortem session with friends. A chance to relish the night’s humiliations, take bets on who went home with whom, and nominate the guest most in need of therapy, present company included.
An opportunity, that […]
Posted on January 1st, 2008 by admin
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Marian Radke-Yarrow | b. 1918
The Anthropological Psychologist
By LAUREN SLATER
I wish I’d known the work of Dr. Marian Radke-Yarrow when I was pregnant. I remember more than a few close friends asking me if I worried about the particular packet of DNA I was passing on. I was concerned about the depression […]
Posted on December 31st, 2007 by admin
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Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depression. It has been a great mystery how these men and women, praised for their genius in film, on the canvass, or in using […]
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by admin
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Stress and depression are two of the things in modern life that you have to deal with at one point or another. The former is an everyday thing, one that can stem from something as difficult as social anxiety to something as mundane as tripping over your own shoelaces. The latter, depression, is not quite […]
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by admin
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