Now for the depressed writer (I know a lot of you personally): I have an essay about a life-altering encounter that I’ve been working on for years. I wrote the first draft in early 2013. I wrote the second draft in 2014. I finally submitted it in January 2015. It was rejected. ...
Essay 1: The Importance of Paying Attention to Mental Health In today's fast-paced world, it is essential that we recognize and prioritize the importance of maintaining good mental health. While physical health often takes center stage, our mental well-being is equally significant. Ignoring mental...
Peter Conrad Fall 2014 Department of Sociology Sociology 194a: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness This course examines sociological approaches to mental...
Laing, The Politics of Experience, was chosen because it is representative of Laing's broadly philosophical ideas; other books by Laing which have entered into this essay are The Divided Self and The Self and Others. Seymour Halleck is a psychiatrist who has seen patients in both voluntary ...
As Mental Health Awareness Month begins, it’s worth learning about the ways that you can use writing to support your mental well-being. There’s real power behind the pen—here’s why. Use writing for mindfulness Meditation and mindfulness are tried-and-true techniques for improving mental we...
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the sentence"Today there is a growing awareness that mental well-being needs to be given as much attention as physical health."You can make comments, give ...
Finally, in November, I createdan audio essay, “Adrift,”from some of those recordings, and it was published as part of my“From Where I Stand”series onTerrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environment.The audio essay is six minutes long, and I hope you’ll take a few mome...
INTRODUCTION On March 21, 2022, Daniel Morehead, MD, psychiatrist, published an essay on Psychiatric Times titled: The DSM: Diagnostic Manual or Diabolical Manipulation? Subtitle: “Nobody likes the DSM”. This is Episode 2 of his defense of psychiatry. Here’s the first paragraph: “It is...
Mental Health is one such book. Will Hall has given us a real gift: this book offers us a new, helpful, liberating—and dare I say, sane—way of re- envisioning our ideas of both the nature of mental health and mental illness in a world gone mad. Truly an inspired, and inspiring,...
says stanford economist marshall burke, lead author of the study. it's unclear if scientists will unearth shared mechanisms behind the mental health effects of climate-related trauma. but the experience itself is obviously, intuitively human. when cunsolo and a colleague published an essay in ...