psychiatry
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy
That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
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Reality Is Changeable: Talking with Rachel Genn
Rachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.
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Our Madness: Talking with Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery discusses her debut memoir, QUITE MAD.
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Breathing into the Paper Bag: Talking with Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
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Splintered Doors
This journey is ongoing. But I know this: my daughter will never have to break down a door.
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Guns or No Guns: Mental Health Crisis in Schools
I do the best I can to reach out to those I see isolated or disturbed, but I have to also be careful I don’t make myself a target.
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It’s All Finger-Pointing at the Moon: A Conversation with Carolyn Zaikowski
Carolyn Zaikowski discusses her most recent book, In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse, the psychology of repetition, and honoring the power of language.
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Weekly Geekery
Phillip K. Dick’s holy spirits—or hallucinations? Lovecraftian scientific horror in Stranger Things. Shakespeare + math = … Narcissists doth make psychiatrists of us all. As women of color win science fiction awards, ATTACK OF THE RABID PUPPIES!
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Poet, historian, and philosopher Jennifer Michael Hecht talks about Thomas Aquinas, Robin Williams, and her most recent book, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.
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Weekly Geekery
Vindicating psychiatry. The science of learning to read. Philip K. Dick warned you, but you didn’t listen. This robot can date for you. Love all over the world via Twitter. Studying social engagements and the marriage ones too.
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The Women of Ward 3B
[Alice’s] brown eyes are comparatively lucid in a room filled with women alternately sedated or enraged. She comforts Shania, who believes a bulldozer is parked inside her forehead, and Sabrina, who thinks an ex-boyfriend has taken custody of their nonexistent…
