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Issue 56: Mental Health

February 2018

Afraid of Not Changing

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 56: Mental Health
Monk is imminently reliable—you tune in to see a character you know and love do exactly what they do best, over and over again. It’s perfect binge viewing for the chronically depressed.
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On Being Sane in Insane Places

Kevin Curtis·
Issue 56: Mental Health
Twelve Monkeys investigates how mental illness operates cognitively through the use of speculative metaphor.
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Memory is a Strange Thing

Kellie Herson·
Issue 56: Mental Health
Arrival is as much about the value of working to understand an unfamiliar other as it is about working to be understood.
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Seeing Red

Brian Brems·
Issue 56: Mental Health
We need to talk about guns. We need to talk about mental health. We need to talk about misogyny. We need to talk about violence. We need to talk about trauma.
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Out of the Wormhole: Trauma and the Self in Iron Man 3

Isabel Cole·
Issue 56: Mental Health
For all its silliness and strangeness and morally questionable underpinnings, Iron Man 3 offers less a manual on how to overcome trauma than a rough and complicated picture of what that might look like.
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“What a pain in the ass you are…”

Zosha Millman·
Issue 56: Mental Health
On Robin Williams, depression, and The Birdcage
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Living with Ghosts

E.D.·
Issue 56: Mental Health
My body was a haunted house. I was going to have to start getting used to it.
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Stigma & Myth in Belle Rive

Paul Fischer·
Issue 56: Mental Health
Vivien Leigh portrayed Blanche DuBois with the skill of a genuinely humanist artist: tolerant, full of compassion and lucidity, devoid of illusions but also of judgment.
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Living Broken Dreams

Ethan Warren·
Issue 56: Mental Health
On The Devil and Daniel Johnston
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The Newsstand Story

Emma Atkinson·
Issue 56: Mental Health
"The first time I watched I Smile Back, I resolved not to be like Laney, to take the film as a cautionary tale. But that was two years ago, and still I find myself circling back to the same type of mistakes I’ve always made."
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Empty Words and Broken Systems

Lynette Chiu·
Issue 56: Mental Health
The Dardenne brothers are known for their unflinching portrayals of working class life in Belgium, and with Two Days, One Night, they shed light on how difficult it can be to support a loved one in poor mental health.
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