Tag Archives: Mental Illness

“Emma” as Aid to Alzheimer’s Caregivers

By Robin Bates | Published: December 28, 2015

A luminescent “New York Times” article explains how a woman used Emma to help her deal with her mother’s Alzheimer’s. Literature at such times does some very heavy lifting.

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Poetry Comforts the Mentally Disabled

By Robin Bates | Published: June 1, 2015

This “New York Times” article describes how poetry came to the aid of a man with schizoaffective disorder. It also aided his therapist.

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Milne’s Old Sailor & ADD

By Robin Bates | Published: March 20, 2015

A. A. Milne’s “Old Sailor” is an accurate description of adult Attention Deficit Disorder.

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Walt Whitman as Suicide Prevention

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2011

At a time when he was feeling depressed and suicidal, Michael Bourne discovered that Walt Whitman could get him to step beyond his “endless, self-constructed maze of Self.”

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