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Psychiatry

Health

Beta Blockers Were a Miracle Cure for My Stage Fright

Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?

Shannon Palus Slate Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Health

I’m Still Here

On learning to live with the urge to die.

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You don’t die. You just wake up some place much worse.

Clancy Martin Huffington Post Highline, Epic Dec 2018 50min Permalink

Crime Science

A Criminal Mind

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

Erika Hayasaki California Sunday Sep 2015 20min Permalink

Crime World

Dr. Shock

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

Richard Poplak The Walrus Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Arts Science Movies & TV

Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters

Barry Michels is Hollywood’s most successful therapist cum motivation coach with an approach that combines Jungian psychology, encouraging patients to embrace their dark side, and “three-by-five index cards inscribed with Delphic pronouncements like THE HIERARCHY WILL NEVER BE CLEAR.”

Dana Goodyear New Yorker Mar 2011 20min Permalink