Story Lines at Virginia Tech

The desire to impose a narrative on chaotic events leaves the meaning of the Virginia Tech shootings up for grabs.

Bruce Shapiro

The Anatomy of Fear

In his memoir Wish I Could Be There, Allen Shawn movingly details a life crippled by phobias.

D.T. Max

Fear Itself

Some people are scaring themselves about the wrong things in ways that are doing terrorists’ work for them. Here’s one physician’s prescription for bringing irrational fears under control.

Dr. Marc Siegel

Death, Depression and Prozac

Jeff Weise, teen slayer of ten, including himself, at the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, was on Prozac, prescribed by some doc.

Alexander Cockburn

Antidepressants a Problem? We’re Shocked!

Six years after Kip Kinkel, dosed up with Prozac, killed his parents and two students at Thurston High, in Oregon; five years after Eric Harris, dosed with Luvox, embarked on his day of slaughter

Alexander Cockburn

Trouble in Prozac Nation

Correction: Editorial tightening created the impression that two drug studies, by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, were one study by Pfizer. We regret the error.

Richard DeGrandpre

Also Turned Away

Forty-four states in the United States today bar people with mental illnesses from voting.

Michael Chandler and Jamie York

The Supermax Solution

The billboard at the east entrance to the remote rural village of Tamms, Illinois, reads “Tamms: The First Super Max,” and below, in lowercase letters, “a good place to live.” Inmates at Tamms,

Regan Good

Racial Prescriptions

Patricia J. Williams

Girls, Interrupted

Chris Kraus reviews Cool for You, by Eileen Myles.

Chris Kraus