In an interview at the Hideout, the Cook County sheriff discusses the intersection between mental illness and the jail.
Tag: mental illness
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While the city sleeps on Thanksgiving Day, lonely souls rule the neighborhood streets
How the Uptown post office, Elton John, and a middle-aged schizophrenic made my anti-Thanksgiving.
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On Brandon Marshall, mental illness, and the Bears’ win over the Giants
Should the league fine the Bears’ receiver for his green-cleat advocacy?
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The ongoing relationship between psychiatry and American movies
How Side Effects and See You Next Tuesday reflect new trends in the movies’ depiction of mental illness.
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See You Next Tuesday and the underground among us
First impressions of this year’s Audience Award winner at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
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Is there an alternative to being mentally ill?
A short consideration of living with bipolar disorder
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Alan Mills, legal director, Uptown People’s Law Center
This week’s Chicagoan: Alan Mills, legal director, Uptown People’s Law Center
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Father, husband, schizophrenic
Schizophrenia afflicts three times as many blacks as whites. David Mailey is among its victims, but he’s persevering.
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Julie Donalek, nurse to the poor
First-person accounts from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford I’m a retired nursing professor. I run a weekly clinic for very-low-income people. Sometimes another nurse or a social worker comes in to help. I can’t prescribe medications, and I don’t manage people’s health care. I provide basic treatments, along with referrals to […]
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Khecari Dance Theatre
A preview of The Waking Room, a new evening-length dance piece by Jonathan Meyer.
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The Inner Life of a Psycho Killer
A Conversation With Forensic Psychiatrist Carl Wahlstrom, One of the Expert Witnesses Who Interviewed and Evaluated Jeffrey Dahmer