Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beast: A Reckoning with Depression (Putnam; 286 pages; $23.95), Tracy Thompson, a reporter for the Washington Post, provides a harrowing chronicle of her battle against the demon she calls "a psychic freight train of roaring despair." Thompson is uncommonly thoughtful on many levels--from her fearful childhood in a Southern fundamentalist family, to her confused entanglement with a harshly supportive man, to her hospitalization in a mental ward and her sunlit rescue by Prozac. Thompson's reporter's eye is unsparing, and she writes with tough grace. About one of her more hopeful moments: "Life did not get easier...
...after a directing deal he had fought hard for fell through, he decided to pursue a book idea that had come to him during a trip to southwestern England. Evans had met a blacksmith who told of a local Gypsy able to tame wild steeds through some mysterious psychic connection. A horse whisperer, they called him. The story, says Evans, "made me shiver...
...language fits his subject. Of tribal elders in a bar, he writes, "The three older men looked like the frail members of a government in exile, deeply versed in the politics of failure." Of a newly alcoholic reporter who covers the killings, McNamee observes, "He had somehow acquired the psychic credentials of the drinker, the sad, proclaiming spirit." There is an eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach for the stinging, pivotal...
...what few knew until her revelation this year is that Jamison has suffered from manic depression for more than 30 years. Now Jamison is publishing a memoir that chronicles her odyssey from painful mental chaos to an uneasy psychic peace. Written with poetic and moving sensitivity, An Unquiet Mind (Knopf; $22) is a rare and insight ful view of mental illness from inside the mind of a trained specialist...
...strange enough to see a major broadcast network giving serious consideration to subjects like -- to pick a few recent examples -- "My Co-Worker Is a Ghost," "Psychic Peeping Toms" and "A Dead Celebrity Is Taking Over My Life." But The Other Side is just the latest entry in a fast-growing TV genre that rivals the most irrepressible supermarket tabloids in promoting pseudoscience and the paranormal. No claims seem too outlandish for the ratings-hungry producers: pets that are psychic; ufos that battle with Iranian fighter pilots; people who travel in time or have "out-of-body" experiences...