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The Lost Art Of Eating A Pomegranate.
Beware the Pomegrante. ‘Tis but an evil beast, ’tis. Pomegranates are the most dangerously difficult fruit on planet Earth. Why, in 2013 alone there were 17,012 incidents of injury and/or severe...
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Why Do Humans Need To Comfort Food?
Breaking News: All boiled eggs to be fitted with a mandatory diaper! Comfort food: why do humans do it? We’ve given the idea a serious amount of noggin power over the last week. We’ll point out the...
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Book of da Week: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Today it’s time for the critically acclaimed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s difficult to think of a text with such a celebrated history – an...
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Shell Shock: The Psychological Impact of War by Wendy Holden
Shell Shock. Here we have a morbidly fascinating, if terribly poignant, account of shell shock (i.e. PTSD) in World War I. British journalist and novelist Wendy Holden had this published back in 1998,...
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Exclusive Invention: The Shrink Sink (a psychiatrist smart sink)
“Hey, Jeff. Let’s get better!” Sinks are typically thought of as unintelligent beings and it’s about time this bigoted state of affairs came to an end. Thanks to our patented technology, the average...
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Frasier: The Ultra-Wonderful Intellectual Sitcom
From left to right: Roz, Niles, Daphne, Martin, and Frasier. Once every other year or so, we return to the world of Frasier to get some intellectual comedic satisfaction. The Cheers spin-off aired in...
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Exclusive Santa Column: Santa Starts at the Psychiatrists
Indeed. Our dear readers, we do apologise for the Santa Claus bloodbath last week and can only hope to promote good news this week! And that is… Santa is now seeing a shrink! No, it’s not Dr. Frasier...
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The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
R.D. Laing’s most famous work. In The Collected Schizophrenias (2019) by Esmé Weijun Wang we had a first glimpse into the much misunderstood world of schizophrenia. As a mental illness, it typically...
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Mind Scanners: The Disturbing Retro-Futuristic Psychiatry Sim
Here’s a dystopian type jaunt inspired by Papers, Please, Mind Scanners is from indie team The Outer Zone in Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s a retro-futuristic psychiatry simulation with dystopian themes....
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Three Identical Strangers: Loss, Love, and Human Experimentation
This 2018 documentary film directed by Tim Wardle see-saws between an upbeat, life-affirming tale to one of tragedy and institutionalised exploitation. Three Identical Strangers covers the lives of...
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