Word: mentalities
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...Citizens Commission for Human Rights, a group that counts the Church of Scientology as one of its sponsors. According to the group’s Web site, the “non-profit public benefit organization” hopes to “clean up the field of mental health...
...Mental-health advocates, led by Senator Pete Domenici, scored a major victory with a provision in the Wall Street bailout bill that requires insurers to provide the same coverage for mental illnesses as for physical ones. Domenici, whose daughter suffers from schizophrenia, had pushed for more than a decade to bar insurers from limiting coverage of mental illnesses. The new rule could affect policies for 113 million people. But not all riders in the $700 billion package will have such widespread appeal...
...sanity, and sex are the three biggest players on the field in Matthew Quick’s “The Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick tells his tale from the perspective of Pat Peoples, a 34-year-old man who has just been released from a mental institution—or “the bad place,” as he calls it. Written in the style of an extended, journal-like letter to his ex-wife, Pat documents his obsession with her, his slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia Eagles...
...comedian is to attack sensitive issues in society in a way that both innocently mocks and pointedly slanders. Maher succeeds, probing into old wounds that refuse to heal. An anthropological affront, “Religulous” reminds us that religion looks a lot like mental illness, and even more like a blind call to an archaic battle...
...part of an initiative aimed to provide students with more outlets to mental health services, the mental health division of University Health Services has launched a pilot program Monday evening in four of the upperclassman houses. The program features drop-in hours with a Mental Health Services staff member, during which students can confidentially and informally talk about their mental health concerns and questions. From depression to homesickness to financial woes, no issues are off-limits according to MHS Director Paul K. Barreira. He led the initiative after finding that similar programs had been successful at Columbia University and Cornell...