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...narrative threads yet maintaining a clear story through varying color schemes and drawing styles, Hornschemeier's work demonstrates that comics can address complex ideas while also telling an emotional, entertaining tale. If other comics are easy chairs, his work offers the pleasure, and the pain, of reclining on a psychiatrist's couch...
OVERTURNED. The murder convictions of ANDREA YATES, 40, Texas mother who in 2001 drowned her five children in the family bathtub; by a Texas appeals court, because of false testimony from a witness for the prosecution; in Houston. In testifying that Yates knew right from wrong, psychiatrist Park Dietz referred to a Law & Order episode concerning a depressed woman who drowns her kids, which prosecutors suggested influenced Yates' actions. The court subsequently learned that no such episode exists. Although Yates' lawyer said he would not seek her immediate release from prison, her mother is pushing for hospitalization instead...
...techniques. With the new equipment, scientists are able to take increasingly detailed pictures of the sleeping brain, observing precisely what it is doing while it rests, down to the individual neuron. "In the past year or two, everything seemed to click together," says Dr. Giulio Tononi, a neurobiologist and psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Suddenly we have hypotheses that could explain lots of things. Whether they're right is a different story. But I feel different from a few years ago, when the thinking was, 'Who knows? Sleep could be anything...
...poisoned Bhopal's soul. "The shame of Bhopal," he says, "is that there's no humanity here today. People began to spend their lives in queues, for ration cards, for hospital, for compensation. We became a city of victims, a city of beggars, with nobody caring for anyone else." Psychiatrist Santosh Tandon, 45, said the "disempowering" effect of the catastrophe, which left a whole city unable to provide for itself, was overwhelming. "The gas took away Bhopal's spirit," he says. He adds many patients developed "compensation neurosis": unable to do anything but wait for help that never came...
...makes everyone even more susceptible, less resilient, to whatever happens," says Navy Captain Bill Nash, a psychiatrist who heads the Marines' Operational Stress Control Readiness (OSCAR) program in al-Anbar. "The war here has produced more significant stress injuries than any other conflict since Vietnam," he says. "And you'd have to be exceptionally optimistic and using massive denial to believe we are not going to generate a hell of a lot more of these stress injuries before we are done here...