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...creators of “Charlie Bartlett” seem to have had an elaborate mental checklist of every high school movie cliché known to man and, item by tedious item, set out to check them off. Hopelessly troubled rich kid expelled from private school and forced to transfer to public? Check. A beating on the first day by a tattooed punk with a mohawk? Check. Love affair with the beautiful (but feisty!) principal’s daughter? Subsequent power struggle with said principal for remainder of the movie? Film resolves in boy overcoming his family issues, getting...
It’s a mad, mad world. Literally. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, estimates that in a given year, 26.2 percent of Americans 18 and older suffer from a mental illness. That’s one in four of all of us. In the words of Rita Mae Brown, “Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it?...
...Even if you’re fortunate enough to have a crazy friend, you aren’t in the clear. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in the United States, the likelihood that a person will develop some mental disorder during his lifetime is 48.6 percent. Although this data may go a long way towards explaining political phenomena in the United States, it is nonetheless not very reassuring that one-half of Americans are at some time certifiably bonkers—especially given our liberal gun laws. The problem isn’t just that we are crazy...
...Behavior Became a Sickness” has a different suggestion. Lane argues that psychiatrists have been systematically narrowing the acceptable range of human behavior by increasing the number of diseases afflicting the human mind. To illustrate his point, Lane explores the expansion of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)—the handbook listing the types of mental disorders and their criteria. In 1994, the fourth edition of the DSM appeared with 400 more pages than the previous edition...
...sitting down, you’re learning things. And then if you’re doing homework at night, you’re also sitting down. If you get up in the middle of the day and move around, run around, I think it’s a good mental break and it gives you energy to do things in the evening.”Blattler has taken time off from track to focus on her primary concern, her schoolwork. Last summer she spent two months in Namibia doing field work for her concentration with the geology professor, Paul Hoffman...