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How Culture Shapes Madness, my latest at Pacific Standard

Posted on October 3, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture

Madness, Genius, & Sherman’s Ruthless March (NC Moving Party Track #9)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Ed note: Originally posted March 2012. See note at bottom.] In 1864, in a move crucial to winning the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman led his army of some ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science

The Batman Movie Killings, Madness, and Culture

Posted on June 1, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Below find #2 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, as I prepared to move them to ...

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Strange Voices & Apartments as Antipsychotics – T.M. Luhrmann on Schizophrenia and Culture

Posted on January 15, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

How does culture shape the expression of mental illness or anamolous mental states? I’ve explored that questions several times at Neuron Culture, sometime...

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What’s It Like To Be Schizophrenic?

Posted on August 10, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

From “I Should Be Included in the Census,” by Amy Johnson. This is the catch-22, the double bind. Schizophrenia happens to 1% of the population. We ...

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Batman Returns: How Culture Shapes Muddle Into Madness

Posted on July 27, 2012 by David Dobbs / 14 Comments

Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs takes another look at the causes of tragedies like the one in Aurora.

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Madness Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: A Corrective

Posted on April 12, 2012 by David Dobbs / 10 Comments

My post two days ago on the links between depression and creativity sparked some smart comments. Perhaps the best was sent to me privately by the excellent blog...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, Mosaic, Slate, and other publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication. You can keep track of me at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. For occasional reading recommendations in my occasional newsletter, Read Two of These and Call Me in the Morning., sign up either here or in the form below.

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