mental health

What Stig Dagerman’s Typewriter Meant to Him, His Descendants, and His Fans

Diego Courchay Chronicles the Abbreviated Life of a Swedish Literary Prodigy

 
By Diego Courchay  November 16, 2023
Drugs

Panacea or Problematic Hype?: The Uncertain Promises of Ketamine Therapy

By Andy Mitchell  October 25, 2023
Mental Illness

What’s Unreal is Real: Alicia Elliott on the Tired Trope of Madness in Fiction

By Alicia Elliott  September 18, 2023
In Conversation

Crafting Madness: Stephanie Heit on Joining a Lineage of Authors with Mental Health Difference

By Naomi Ortiz  August 18, 2023
Book Bans

School Librarian Memoirs May Just Be the Next Big Thing

By Jess deCourcy Hinds  August 11, 2023
On Writing

How My Library Patrons Unexpectedly Helped Me Finish My Novel

By Laura Sims  July 27, 2023
The Hub

Yes, it can be very stressful to publish a book, and young writers need more support.

By Jonny Diamond  July 19, 2023
Science

“Glorious But Fragile.” On Looking at the Whole Earth and Finding Peace

By Marjolijn van Heemstra  June 29, 2023
Suicide

Murder Is a Plot Point. Suicide Isn’t.

By JJ Elliott  May 26, 2023
Mental health

Author Susanna Kaysen Revisits Girl, Interrupted 30 Years After Its Publication

By Susanna Kaysen  May 23, 2023
Psychosis

“Smoking Ruins Were All Around Me.” On Experiencing Psychosis For the First Time

By Thomas Melle and Luise von Flotow  May 22, 2023
Mental health

How Our Well-Being Is Inextricably Linked to That of Those Around Us

By Sarah Rose Cavanagh  May 2, 2023
The Hub

Definitive proof that publishing your novel won’t make you happy.

By Janet Manley  April 24, 2023
The Hub

Actual writers shocked to learn that “writing can make you healthier.”

By Jonny Diamond  April 24, 2023
Friendship

On Smuggling a Book Into the Psych Ward

By Jonathan Rosen  April 24, 2023
Keen On

Hannah Murphy Wonders Whether Teens Are Paying With Their Sanity for Social Media

By Keen On  April 6, 2023
Animals

Therapy… Chickens? Tove Danovich on Finding Comfort in Feathered Friends

By Tove Danovich  March 30, 2023
Memoir

Making Something Special of Solitude: Baek Sehee on Falling Through Life’s Cracks

By Baek Sehee and Anton Hur  December 1, 2022
Writer's block

Healing, Then Writing: Confronting Writer’s Block in the Early Years of Sobriety

By Matthew Quick  November 14, 2022
Mental health

Navigating Life with Misophonia: “For the Past Ten Years I Have Lived Inside Music.”

By Sussie Anie  November 3, 2022
On Poetry

Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

By Joseph Earp  September 26, 2022
Anthropology

What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

By Dimitris Xygalatas  September 14, 2022
Trafficking survivors

The Inspiration Behind Sara’s Law Tells Her Story

By Cori Thomas  May 11, 2022
The Royal Family

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

By Robert Leleux  April 22, 2022
Literary History

Writer on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Time Philip Roth Lied to Me

By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker  April 7, 2022
Mental health

Teaching Writing to Children with Autism While in the Grip of Anxiety

By Sarah Fay  March 24, 2022
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