Articles related to "Mental Institutions"

This book was inspired by the discovery of 425 suitcases in an abandoned attic of Willard State Hospital, which contained the personal belongings of committed inmates.

Emily Browning's struggle for truth in the face of tragedy portrays the depth of the human mind and the power it has to either forget or remember in order to survive.

The exhibition demonstrates how psychiatric practises influenced modernism in the visual arts, and how this art movement shaped the lives and images of the mentally ill.

Dr. Enoch Callaway's new book, "Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse", provides a rare glimpse inside the walls of the nation's first insane asylum.

Wrongly committed to a rural mental institution, Mrs Shoddy must escape into the safety of her memories in order to isolate herself from the suffering around her.

Diane Arbus was an iconic photographer who looked for the ordinary in the extraordinary. This article spans the development of her work and the extent of her influence.

A list taken by a postcard book, "Women Who Dared," revisits brave women from all walks of life who made a positive difference in the lives of women and men.

South of Broad is Pat Conroy's first novel since the exceptional Beach Music fourteen years ago and centers around a group of friends coming of age in Charleston.

In his travel narrative, Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson takes the reader on a farewell journey around the United Kingdom.

Law and Order: Criminal Intent is a long running crime drama that explores the motivations behind crimes in series starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe on USA.

Fire is one of mankind's greatest friends and one of its greatest enemies. Novelists have used the deliberately-set fire in many exciting tales. Here are just a few.

The tragic life of Saint Dympna and her deep faith in Christianity led to her eventual death at the hands of her father. Why then is Dympna the Patron Saint of insanity?

There are many major news stories that the general public can easily forget about after their time in the headlines as run its course. Vince Li is not one of them.

Emma Page's Final Moments has its moments but overall it makes a trite, somewhat predictable detective story. It's like vanilla ice cream - It is ice cream, but plain.

How is Outsider Art different from Folk Art? Why is it Important? From prisons, to mental institutions, to rural areas, Outsider artists often live outside the mainstream

Famous for her role as Princess Leia, four-time best selling author Carrie Fisher's honest and acerbic wit are back in her new book, Wishful Drinking.

'House of Fools' tells the story of an insane asylum caught in the chaos of the Chechen War.

Desperate Housewives It's Only In Your Head was the season five finale of the soap opera like dark comedy about the lovely ladies and handsome men of Wisteria Lane.

The art world is reaching out to persons with disabilities, offering accessible museum exhibits, artists residencies - even tickets and transportation to cultural events.

The American Film Institute, AFI, has named the "Top Ten Science Fiction Films of All Time.' Stanley Kubrick's '2001 A Space Odyssey' tops the movie list.

"What to believe?" It's a phrase repeated often in Annie's Ghosts, as author Steve Luxenberg unravels the mystery surrounding his late mother's institutionalized sister.

In the last three years, three cult classic horror films have been remade: Black Christmas, Halloween and Prom Night. How do they hold up against the originals?

Lynette learns she is pregnant; Gaby welcomes Carlos' niece to the family; Bree and Carl become more personal than lawyer-client

Despite a franchise that has spanned decades, this new version of Halloween attempts to explore Michael Myers's beginnings. But can it stand on its own?

Child abduction and kidnapping by predators is rare, but potentially deadly, and all parents need to guard against it.

"Madness and Modernity" examines the interaction between mental illness, art, architecture, culture, literature and psychiatric practises in Vienna between 1890 and 1910.

Sixty years ago, a deeply disturbed man embarked on a carefully planned killing orgy in Camden, New Jersey; he just died of old age.

Anne Sexton was born November 9, 1928, in Weston, Massachusetts. Her poem, "Music Swims Back to Me," dramatizes the experience of a woman in a mental institution.

These five best picture winners from the 1970s include a satire, a feel-good boxing story, a tale of social angst, a Vietnam study, and a look at divorce.

T he season premiere of the fifth season of Lost aired on ABC on January 21, 2009. The show lived up to its reputation of being both exciting and mind boggling.

Whether you write drama, action, comedy, or horror, script your next movie bad guy using the juicy traits of November Eve's number one villain - Michael Myers.

Connect a con to a dashing explorer knighted by Queen Elizabeth and you have the Sir Francis Drake Association.

The horror movie may remain a box office draw, but the noughties has been the decade of the re-make.

His novels created the largest buzz in the world of Scandinavian literature after his sudden death in 2004 and readers want more of this spectacular author. But why?

Jamie Lee Curtis is stalked by an insane, revenge-seeking classmate aboard a train. Watch it again before the remake comes out in 2008.

Sylvia Plath takes the bildungsroman novel, which is typically a young man's journey to discover his place in society, and accommodates to the feminist position.

Is there a connection between music and mental illness? Two documentary films about bands and musicians focus on the tumultuous lives of Roky Erickson and Anton Newcombe.

The four episodes of "Lost" Season Four reveal new facts about the Island, the Rescuers, and the possible fate of our heroes as the show approaches its finale in 2010.

Scott Joplin's life was both heroic and tragic. He viewed himself not just as a composer of popular music but as a teacher and leader.

Easy comparisons to the Soviet Union's prison camps fail to convey the human suffering that took place in the Gulag system

The life of the acclaimed writer's troubled partner, and a look at Zelda's own writing attempts, ballet career, and ongoing depression following the American Jazz Age.

The 2003 film - a.k.a Janghwa, Hongryeon - that helped establish South Korea's film industry as a horror heavy-weight. Directed by Kim Jee-woon.

In 1889 two women reporters set off to prove that Jules Verne's popular novel was not just imaginary fiction. One is still remembered today, the other forgotten.

Most water sign people gravitate toward stable careers that offer the opportunity to help, serve, or care for others in some way.

Jack Nelson's career at the Los Angeles Times spanned over 35 years. He covered civil rights, Watergate among breaking stories and led the paper to national prominence.

Renowned composers Chopin, Clara Schumann, Rimsky-Korsakov and Satie as painted by Eugène Delacroix, Johann Heinrich Schramm, Ilya Repin and Suzanne Valadon.

Every year new holiday movies are produced. There are five classic films that are perennial favorites.

A look at the award-winning German director of Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Grizzly Man and many more.

The Baseball Primer Series debunks the Myth that Abner Doubleday Invented Baseball.

Chief Bromden's obsession with the combine, and the mechanisms thereof, is allegorical of the threat conformity inflicts on individuality.