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Healthcare and the Human Spirit: Walt Whitman on the Most …

WEBIn the early 1860s, six years after he self-published Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) began volunteering as a nurse in the Civil …

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The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our

WEBIn the immeasurably revelatory The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions (public library), Sternberg examines the interplay of our emotions …

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The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the …

WEBAttunement is the foundation of secure attachment, which is in turn the scaffolding of psychoemotional health later in life. Van der Kolk writes: A secure …

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Keats on Depression and the Mightiest Consolation for a Heavy …

WEBKeats on Depression and the Mightiest Consolation for a Heavy Heart. “One feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly …

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Virginia Woolf on Being Ill as a Portal to Self-Understanding

WEBIn health, Woolf argues, we maintain the illusion, both psychological and outwardly performative, of being cradled in the arms of civilization and society. Illness …

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Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind

WEBA healthy mind is an editing mind, an organ that manages to sieve, from thousands of stray, dramatic, disconcerting, or horrifying thoughts, those particular ideas …

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I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on …

WEBWe are quite familiar with the direct way in which illness gives way to discomfort and pain or exuberant health produces pleasure. But we often overlook the …

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The Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral

WEBA century before William James proclaimed that “a purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity”, a quarter millennium before scientists began …

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The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on

WEBSecond only to air is light as an essential for growth, health and recovery from sickness — not only daylight, but sunlight — and indeed fresh air must be sun …

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The Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness

WEBThe Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness. “I think I’ve only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing,” Pulitzer Prize-winning writer …

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The Art of Medicine: W.H. Auden on What Makes a Great …

WEBThe poetry of W.H. Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) was among Oliver Sacks’s formative books.When the two men eventually became friends in …

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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

WEBA twenty-four-hour news cycle that preys on this human propensity has undeniably aggravated the problem and swelled the 8% to appear as 98%, but at the …

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Van Gogh and Mental Illness – The Marginalian

WEBAs he was painting some of the most celebrated and influential art of all time, Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853–July 29, 1890) was combating his anguishing …

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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools …

WEBUPDATE 2020: Tim has courageously shared the precipitate of his lifelong depression. Most people know Tim Ferriss as the amicable, quick-witted, high-energy …

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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for …

WEBmidweek newsletter. Also: Because The Marginalian is well into its second decade and because I write primarily about ideas of timeless nourishment, each …

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Darwin’s Battle with Anxiety – The Marginalian

WEBDarwin’s Battle with Anxiety. By Maria Popova. Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) was undoubtedly among the most significant thinkers humanity …

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Drawing Mental Illness: Artist Bobby Baker’s Visual Diary

WEBIn Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me ( public library ), Baker makes, at long last, this private experience public through 158 drawings and watercolors — …

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Pioneering Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott on the Mother as a …

WEBWinnicott championed the elemental importance of childhood play and of the early cultivation of a capacity for self-reliant solitude in our ability to experience …

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The Ghost Map: Hard Lessons in Epidemiology from Victorian …

WEBThe Ghost Map: Hard Lessons in Epidemiology from Victorian London. At around 6AM on the morning of August 28, 1854, the Lewis infant started vomiting and …

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Toni Morrison on the Body as an Instrument of Joy, Sanity, and …

WEBJacket photograph for her debut novel, 1970. From within the story’s broader meditation on the deepest meaning of freedom and the body as the locus of liberation, …

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The Great Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Do …

WEBAt the heart of hugging meditation, Nhat Hanh points out, are the core Zen principles of interconnectedness and “interbeing,” with each other as well as with the …

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Artist Francis Bacon’s Conflicted and Creative Life, Illustrated

WEBArtist Francis Bacon’s Conflicted and Creative Life, Illustrated. David Lynch has called legendary British artist Francis Bacon (October 28, 1909–April 28, 1992) “the …

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