Multiculturalism and Mental Illness: An Interview With Mira T. Lee
Eleanor J. Bader interviews debut novelist Mira T. Lee about mental illness and multiculturalism in “Everything Here Is Beautiful.”...
MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Stories, Stigma, and the "Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing"
In 1949, the organization now known as Mental Health America named May Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health awareness is appropriate for all seasons. “Mental health” as a concept can be seen as coterminous with the human experience, and yet it also suggests distinct genres of suffering that persist in our families and our society. These pieces touch on the implications of mental illness for crime and punishment in the US, the challenges of crafting narratives that do justice to the realities of mental illness, and the literary triumphs when authors illuminate what Esmé Weijun Wang calls in her essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias “the shaggy, sharp-toothed thing.” — LARB Editorial
When Mother Is Mad
Parents with mental illness in YA fiction...
The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing
Emily LaBarge reviews Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias.”...
Empathy and the Existential in Mental Illness and Psychotherapy
Lee Gutkind's "Same Time Next Week" and Irvin D. Yalom's "Creatures of a Day" represent two takes on the state of psychotherapy and mental illness today....
Precision Psychiatry: Hype or Promise?
What if doctors could treat diseases based on the specific genes, enzymes, and biochemistry of a patient?...
Wired for Madness? A History
Madness in civilization, or so-called "degeneracy," can be interpreted in a variety of ways depending on the time period and who's in charge of categories....
A Revelatory Requiem for a Mentally Ill Friend
Sarah Manguso's revelatory book "The Guardians" uses fractured prose to render the messy, lifelong process of grieving suicide loss....
“It’s the Disease, Not the Individual”: A Talk with Zack McDermott
Zack McDermott, author of the memoir "Gorilla and the Bird," talks with LARB about mental illness and criminal justice reform....
Fractured Origins in Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias”
Katharine Coldiron on Esmé Weijun Wang’s prize-winning essay collection, “The Collected Schizophrenias," which joins the schizophrenia memoir canon....
Moody Genes
Taylor Beck reads Stephen P. Hinshaw's "Another Kind of Madness" through the lens of his own history with mental illness....
The Limits of Metaphor: Jeannie Vanasco’s “The Glass Eye”
Andrew Schenker appreciates “The Glass Eye” by Jeannie Vanasco, a memoir that explores the search for meaning and the limits of metaphor....
