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Revising the book on mental illness
After years of research, professional infighting and maneuvering from various interest groups, the nation's psychiatrists Tuesday unveiled proposed changes to the manual used to diagnose and treat mental disorders around the world.
The draft document,...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Pharmaceuticals, Symptoms, Mental Illness
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Book review: 'Every Day by the Sun' by Dean Faulkner Wells
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEvery Day by the Sun A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi Dean Faulkner Wells Crown: 272 pp., $25 The marvelous stories that crowd the pages of "Every Day by the Sun" prove that when you have five generations of Southern relatives as your...Tags: Racism, World War II (1939-1945), Schizophrenia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment
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Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer dies at 66; vagabond singer made albums with Frank Zappa
"Wanna buy a song for a dime?" For many startled UCLA students and Sunset Strip sightseers in the 1960s, that was the way Larry "Wild Man" Fischer introduced himself.
Anyone who took him up on his offer was rewarded with a brief, bellowing burst of...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Schizophrenia, Medium Cool (movie), Mental Illness, Comedy (genre)
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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to explore the musical mind
He spent too much time sitting alone in bars, drinking beer with his face to the wall. He fell for an underage girl whose father disapproved of his bohemian ways, and between smoking, brooding and picking up a venereal disease during his reckless youth,...Tags: Depression, Mania, Bars and Clubs, Music Industry, Winston Churchill
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Track star involved in fatal high-speed crash had been taking antipsychotic drugs, report says
L.A. NOWA former Corona del Mar High School track star who died in a high-speed crash that killed two other people along Mariners Mile earlier this year had been taking antipsychotic drugs, according to a toxicology report released Monday. Olanzapine and...... -
Suspect in stabbing of four shoppers at Target found incompetent to stand trial
L.A. NOWA woman accused of stabbing four people at a Target store in West Hollywood in May has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial. Layla Rosette Trawick, 34, was ordered to be sent to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino...... -
Mitrice Richardson's father asks county supervisors to investigate her death
L.A. NOWThe father of Mitrice Richardson, the woman whose remains were discovered nearly a year after she disappeared, pleaded with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to help him find out what happened. "I've never relied on this...... -
House recap: The big sleep-over
Show TrackerBlack & Decker power drill bit into a skull, male prostitution and the Oedipus complex. All that in 44 ½ minutes of snappy dialogue. A woman, whose husband knows her as Margaret (but thanks to House & Co. must eventually...... -
Alice Ripley's grasp of her character is far from normal
Culture MonsterNEW YORK -- In a rehearsal room several floors above 42nd Street, actress Alice Ripley had just finished crying her way through a scene in the musical âNext to Normal.â She was still sobbing when she started asking herself what...... -
'Gossip Girl': Which cast members will succeed once the show ends?
Show TrackerThere comes a moment in most TV series' run when even the most faithful fans have to acknowledge that the show doesn't have much time left. For "Gossip Girl," I fear that time is upon us. All the signs are...... -
Theater review: 'Next to Normal' at the Ahmanson Theatre
Culture MonsterUh-oh. Diana seems to be having another one of her episodes. Sheâs staying up all night disinfecting the house, sneaking into bed for some manic lovemaking and then arising without a wink of sleep to start an assembly line of...... -
'Law & Order: SVU's' guest actresses get Emmy's attention
"We were writing a story for Chris Meloni's character's mother, and she was going to be bipolar. Immediately we thought Ellen Burstyn."
So began Neal Baer's wooing of the Oscar-winning Burstyn to the set of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." "We had...Tags: Christine Lahti, Literature, Marcia Gay Harden, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jeremy Irons
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