mental illness

evangelicalanxiety

Evangelical Anxiety

By Charles Marsh | September 28, 2017

We did not do therapy. “Psychoheresy,” some called it.

fundies_aspies

Fundies and Aspies

By Jonathan Kemmerer-Scovner | June 11, 2014

Ned Spodos has seen it from both sides.

Wall of room in Ward Retreat 1 at St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C. Via the Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine.

A Message from Prison

By Greg Bottoms | January 24, 2012

When somebody just needs to disappear.

the fountain [explored] by It's Holly / © Some rights reserved.

Jesus, PI, and the Case of the Liberating Curse

By Jeremy B. Jones | October 10, 2011

Speaking in riddles and a four-letter finale.

Clarence Schmidt. Photo by David E. Johnson, via Flickr.

Mountainous Harmony and Everlasting Peace

By Greg Bottoms | June 30, 2011

Great art meets faulty wiring.

Still from the movie "Ghost," with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze (1990).

The Sexologist’s Secret

By Arthur Goldwag | December 13, 2010

What a radical Victorian feminist really knew about love.

Sister Mary

Stay Out of the Stacks!

By KtBniks | November 12, 2010

Readers—our Communicant, Mary Valle, has been missing for a few days. She was last seen telling her husband she was going to do a little research in the KtB archives…

Killing the Buddha

Cancer, Reality, and Mania

By KtBniks | June 8, 2010

Paul R. Mazur, MD, MPH, from Northport, Maine, writes in with a letter about Mary Valle’s weekend essay about cancer-ward poetry, “Doggerel Fails Me“: Courageous bit of writing by Mary…

A little nutzo, maybe?

Are Saints Sane?

By Becky Garrison | March 26, 2010

Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture’s recent forum Religion & Madness: Spirituality & Pathology used the medium of theater to explore the connection between spirituality and mental illness. As…

"It isn't about the absence of germs."

Getting Clean

By Emma Snyder | August 24, 2005

What is the sound of one hand washing again and again and again?

Art by Michael Allen Potter

God is Electric, Jesus Electrochemical

By Michael Allen Potter | June 7, 2004

The author goes in search of God and his birth mother. Only one gets found.

Edith Wharton, b. 1862 - "'Edith? Is that you?' 'Yes,' the pen wrote, wobbling a little on its inky point."

Inflections

By Livia Kent | June 6, 2004

What do you call yourself when names like skin can be shed?

Torquemada

Torquemada

By Melvin Jules Bukiet | December 18, 2000

What if every prince or pope who ever stoned or burned the Chosen People had a party in your head?