Subject:

Psychotic Disorders

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Mental-Health Issues in Pierce County are No Joke

    This week, supplementing his current feature on the impact privatization has had on the mental-health system in Pierce County, Keegan Hamilton has been posting to Daily Weekly with additional details, source documents and insight gained during the extensive research process for the cover story.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Voicing Concerns about Military's Continued Use of Lariam

    On Tuesday Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro crafted a post about former top military psychiatrist and current chief clinical officer for the District of Columbia's mental health department Elspeth Ritchie and her questions about the military's continued use of the anti-malarial drug Lariam. These quest ... More >>

  • News

    April 4, 2012

    Robert Bales' War on Drugs

    Was the accused mass murderer prescribed a hallucinogen?

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Imka Pope, Homeless Woman Forced to Give Birth in King County Jail, Will Finally Get Her Day In Court

    ​Cold, alone, and in the grip of an intense psychotic episode, Imka Pope squatted down in a King County Jail cell and delivered a baby boy onto the concrete. Fourteen years later, with the memories still fresh of how she'd told the guards she was giving birth, but been ignored, Pope's lawsuit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 13, 2011

    Donnie Darko

    ​Cold, alone, and in the grip of an intense psychotic episode, Imka Pope squatted down in a King County Jail cell and delivered a baby boy onto the concrete. Fourteen years later, with the memories still fresh of how she'd told the guards she was giving birth, but been ignored, Pope's lawsuit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2010

    Matt Costa

    ​Cold, alone, and in the grip of an intense psychotic episode, Imka Pope squatted down in a King County Jail cell and delivered a baby boy onto the concrete. Fourteen years later, with the memories still fresh of how she'd told the guards she was giving birth, but been ignored, Pope's lawsuit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2010

    The Festival of New Spanish Cinema

    ​Cold, alone, and in the grip of an intense psychotic episode, Imka Pope squatted down in a King County Jail cell and delivered a baby boy onto the concrete. Fourteen years later, with the memories still fresh of how she'd told the guards she was giving birth, but been ignored, Pope's lawsuit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2010

    Donnie Darko

    ​Cold, alone, and in the grip of an intense psychotic episode, Imka Pope squatted down in a King County Jail cell and delivered a baby boy onto the concrete. Fourteen years later, with the memories still fresh of how she'd told the guards she was giving birth, but been ignored, Pope's lawsuit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Chalk Outlines: Beacon Hill Man Shot by Son, Police Say

    ​Seattle Police are reporting that a 50-year-old Beacon Hill Man was shot and killed by his 29-year-old son Saturday morning in a house on the 9000 block of 39th Ave S. They say the son called 911 to report having shot his father, and reportedly also admitted that he'd been smoking PCP about 4 ... More >>

  • News

    April 30, 2008

    Help Or I’ll Shoot

    Samson Berhe might have gotten the treatment he needed, if only he’d committed a crime.

  • Music

    August 29, 2007

    Roky Erickson: Modern Medicine Resurrects a Psychedelic Pioneer’s Career

    His tragic personal life has overshadowed one very important fact: He made amazing music.

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    The Fountain of (Sonic) Youth

    His tragic personal life has overshadowed one very important fact: He made amazing music.

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2006

    Selling Icos

    His tragic personal life has overshadowed one very important fact: He made amazing music.

  • News

    November 30, 2005

    The Drugging of the American Mind

    A new generation of meds to treat mental illness has turned millions of Americans into human guinea pigs. Among them is an eyewitness who thinks the drug 'revolution' has gone too far.

  • News

    September 28, 2005

    Miraculous They're Not

    Study: Newer antipsychotic drugs are little improvement.

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    Psyched Out

    It's not really fair to encourage the mentally ill to stick with treatment, to fight for normalcy, when stigma and unemployment await them back in the real world.

  • Arts

    August 4, 2004

    Show + Tell

    It's not really fair to encourage the mentally ill to stick with treatment, to fight for normalcy, when stigma and unemployment await them back in the real world.

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    Give Them Shelter

    This is insane. Already in crisis, public services for the mentally ill will get slashed again at year's end. The toll in King County alone will be another 2,000 low-income patients left without services or treatment.

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    What's hot, what's not

    A novelist's uncertain skewering of consumerism.

  • News

    August 8, 2001

    News Clips— Public murder

    A novelist's uncertain skewering of consumerism.

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