Tuesday
January 28, 2020
Subscribe
Print or Web publication

T. M. Luhrmann

T. M. Luhrmann is the author of Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry.

Photo of Oliver Sacks

Head Cases

Field notes on a beautiful friendship

by T. M. Luhrmann | Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Healing the Masses

Healing the Masses

The evolution of care at the nation’s oldest public hospital

by T. M. Luhrmann | Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Anyone Home?

Anyone Home?

The centuries-long debate over what resides between our ears

by T. M. Luhrmann | Monday, September 07, 2015
Fantastic Visions

Fantastic Visions

Not crazy, just creative

by T. M. Luhrmann | Friday, December 07, 2012
Living With Voices

Living With Voices

A new way to deal with disturbing voices offers hope for those with other forms of psychosis

by T. M. Luhrmann | Friday, June 01, 2012
Smarty Pants Podcast

Newsletter


THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Shock Waves

by Our Editors

In the wake of Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air Base, the Defense Department is examining service members for traumatic stress injuries. President Trump this week dismissed the soldiers’ possible concussion symptoms as “headaches,” adding that he doesn’t “consider them very serious injuries, relative to other injuries that I’ve seen.” But as Bethany Vaccaro discovered after her brother Robert left for Iraq in 2006, “giving one’s life can come in more than one form.” Her essay in our summer 2009 issue explores the aftermath of Robert’s traumatic brain injury, both for him and for their family, after an explosive detonated outside his Army Humvee. His injury “defines our daily existence,” writes Vaccaro. “The ongoing process of rehabilitation … has tenaciously enmeshed each one of us, altering our plans, our family structure and interactions, our ideas about life and sacrifice, and most resolutely our belief that if he would only make it back home, everything would be okay.”