MindSite News is excited to continue its series of conversations on psychedelic research and therapies with a live interview with David Bronner on October 13, 2022. A replay of our first conversation, with author and journalist Michael Pollan, can be viewed on YouTube.
In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured a third into the woods and stabbed her repeatedly. The stabbings tell a tragic story about the deficiencies of the mental health and criminal justice systems in the U.S. – and the terrible things that often happen when they collide. Kathleen Hale tells this story in her new book.
As students return to school after 2-1/2 years of pandemic stress and setbacks, concerns about the mental health of young people have never been greater. We invite you to join us for a MindSite News Live Interview focused on youth mental health. Our guests will be some of the people behind the brilliant new Ken Burns Presents documentary Hiding in Plain Sight.
Sylvia Plath was lauded for her genius as a poet, but danger was lurking. This novel examines her profound legacy.
Michael Pollan’s 2018 book How to Change Your Mind, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, premieres as a four-part Netflix docuseries on Tuesday, with each episode devoted to a different hallucinogen.
A new PBS documentary aims to show how commonplace and universal youth mental struggles really are -- and to encourage young people to get help.
This documentary looks at the youth mental health crisis through the eyes of more than 20 young Americans who have struggled with mental illness.
Sam Quinones offers a powerful journalistic account of how fentanyl and P2P meth came to ravage our country and users' psyches – and how people addicted can recover.
A teenage girl learns to embrace her inner panda -- the weird, emotional, creative, messy parts that lie within us all.
There's a culture shift in media coverage of OCD. Once played for laughs, it's now recognized as exhausting, debilitating and relentless.
Talented journalist Stephanie Foo thought she had conquered her demons from an abusive childhood. So why was she so bereft?
We Black people—Black Americans in this case—know hard times, but our lives also sparkle with joy. Black joy, and not just Black trauma, is our inheritance.
Some librarians used to make jokes about Fahrenheit 451 as they pushed back on threats of censorship. But now it hits too close to home.
We are in the #GoodVibesOnly age, and it’s kind of a bummer. The book Toxic Positivity points the way toward authenticity.
As with the fight for civil rights or climate change, it’s going to take a movement, with families at the core of that effort. We need to reframe this crisis as more than a medical challenge: It is an issue of social justice.
In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker makes a compelling argument to embrace neurodiversity while tracing the stigma of mental illness back to the Industrial Revolution.
Teletherapy not only increases access and affordability to therapeutic insights, the author argues, it generates a sense of safety for those who prefer anonymity.
Caring for her brilliant husband who developed early onset Alzheimer's, Pru is isolated, exhausted and lonely. But she has no intention of sending him to a nursing home.
When should sorrow be considered sickness? Historian Jonathan Sadowsky ponders this question as he explores the history of depression treatments.
The 2018 sleeper hit is the most important song about teen boys that most adults have never heard of.
Researchers studying three events where the song was highlighted found an association with 10,000 more calls to the Lifeline.
The film shows how Bourdain's public image contrasted with his private, shy, introverted self.
