• Brain Story (2000)
• Secret Life of the Brain, The (2001)

Abuse

• Mystic River (2003)
• This Boy’s Life (1993)

Addiction

• Clean and Sober (1988)
• Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
• Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
• Permanent Midnight (1998)
• Requiem for a Dream (2008)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

Depression

• Harold and Maude (1971)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• Hours, The (2002)

Dissociative Identity Disorder / Multiple Personal Disorder

• Identity (2003)
• Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
• Primal Fear (1996)
• Sybil (1976)
• Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
• United States of Tara (2009)

Dreams

• What Are Dreams? (2009)

Encephalitis lethargica

• Awakenings (1990)

Family Dysfunction

• Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)
• Squid and the Whale, The (2005)
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Memory

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Memento (2000)

Mental Retardation

• Sling Blade (1996)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• As Good as It Gets (1997)
• Matchstick Men (2003)

Parkinson’s

• Case of the Frozen Addict, The (1986)
  In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or talk. His symptoms, caused by a bad batch of synthetic heroin, were indistinguishable from those associated with Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative nerve disorder that strikes the elderly. NOVA traces the story of a “designer” drug which could lead to a major medical breakthrough.

Personality Disorders

• Good Will Hunting (1999)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994)
• Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Taxi Driver (1976)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Deer Hunter, The (1978)
• Fearless (1993)

Psychiatric Hospitals

• Bedlam (1946)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• Quills (2000)

Psychotherapy

• In Treatment (2008)

Race

• Crash (2004)
• Soldier’s Story (1984)

Schizophrenia

• Angel Baby (1995)
• Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
• Shine (1996)
• Spider (2002)

Sexuality

• Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
• Crying Game, The (1992)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Kinsey (2004)
• Truth About Female Desire, The (2005)
• Woodsman, The (2004)

• Prokaryotic Cell
• Animal Cell
• Plant Cell

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The notorious publisher James Callendar lived by a different standard: he printed whatever spin he was paid to spin. As long as he was being subsidized by Vice President Thomas Jefferson, he blasted President John Adams and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton as traitors. But later, when President Jefferson refused to nominate his former co-conspirator as postmaster of Richmond, Callendar turned his wrath on the Sage of Monticello: “It is well known that the man, whom it delighteth the people to honor, keeps and for many years, has kept as his concubine, one of his own slaves. Her name is Sally.”

A royally pissed-off Jefferson got even with Callendar by denouncing newspaper publishers for eternity: “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
–From Spin This!: All the Ways We Don’t Tell the Truth, Bill Press, 2001

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Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar.

* * *

Traveler, your footsteps are
the way and nothing more
Traveler, there is not a way
the way is made by walking.
Walking makes the way
and looking back at the view behind
shows the path that never
is treaded again.
Traveler there is no way
but wakes on the sea.

En mi cerebro
loop implacable
mi voluntad destruyó

Poquito a poco
tú te instalaste
¿eres huésped o invasor?

Tiñes mis días de fatal melancolía
eres el hacha que astilló toda mi vida
premeditada y divina

Cruel y despiadado
me has humillado
y sin embargo aquí estoy

Aunque me ultrajes
aunque me uses
siempre a tu disposición

Se acabó
he llegado al límite
de mi ciega devoción

Tiñes mis días de fatal melancolía
eres el hacha que astilló toda mi vida
premeditada y divina

Quiero desintoxicarme
cortar esta dependencia
antes que sea tarde

Tiñes mis días de fatal melancolía
eres el hacha que astilló toda mi vida

Malignant

Inside, deep inside
As an implant
Embedded within me

In my brain,
Implacable loop
Destroyed my will

Little by little
You installed yourself
Are you host or invader?

You stain my days of fatal melancholy
You are the ax that splintered my whole life
Premeditated and divine

Cruel and merciless
You’ve humiliated me
And yet here I am

Although you outrage me
Although you use me
I’m always at your command

It’s over
I’ve reached the limit
Of my blind devotion

You stain my days of fatal melancholy…

I want to cleanse myself
To cut this dependence
Sooner rather than later

You stain my days of fatal melancholy…

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