Word: mentalism
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...video, and Missy gets to do some real-ish acting, too. We’re barraged with non-chronological images of Missy getting arrested, Missy’s boy flipping his car, Missy contemplating married life, and, in the coolest part of the video, Missy getting sedated in a mental ward...
...Shenk took both a professional and personal interest in the topic of mental illness. “I was used to studying politics and culture and history and was also really depressed myself,” he says, adding that since his late teens he has struggled to manage depression. “I thought that I could chart a course for my own self by studying the subject in my professional work...
...despite the focus on Lincoln’s depression, particularly in the discussion of his life before the presidency, Shenk’s book becomes more about Lincoln’s admirable character traits than his mental illness. Shenk’s eloquent explications of Lincoln’s speeches—as well as anecdotes of Lincoln’s kindness and good sense of humor—become more intriguing than the book’s argument that his great asset was his melancholy...
...book adds another nuance to our romanticized portrait of the Illinois Rail-Splitter. But the argument that Lincoln’s mental condition was central to his greatness loses steam...
That said, Shenk believes that Lincoln’s depression cannot be separated from his personality, and that the modern tendency to see depression as distinctly separate from ordinary mental states isn’t accurate...