Category Archives: Diagnosis

Podcast: Mental Illness and Parenting – ProPublica

When is a mere diagnosis of mental illness enough to sever a parent's ties to her child? And how much effort must child welfare officials legally exert before they do so? Seth Freed Wessler joins Assistant Managing Editor Eric …

Types of Personality Disorders: Cluster A, B & C – Suite

There are ten clinically recognized personality disorders, each characterized by socially abnormal feelings and behaviors that can create a life of instability.

Understanding the basic biology of bipolar disorder | UCLA

TV Needs to Stop Treating Mental Illness as a … – New Republic

Catherine Black, a celebrated neurologist and the main character of ABC's risible “Black Box” is known as “the Marco Polo of the brain.” That shouldn't come as much of a surprise: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a …

TV Needs to Stop Treating Mental Illness as a Superpower

Catherine Black, a celebrated neurologist and the main character of ABC's risible “Black Box” is known as “the Marco Polo of the brain.” That shouldn't come as much of a surprise: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a …