For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

That old standby of melodrama, the rich uncle shoved into the bin so the greedy relatives could get their hands on his estate, had a sound basis in fact. The V…

For a thousand years, the Bible was almost the only book people read, if they could read at all. The stories that were officially told and portrayed were Bibli…

It must be said at the outset that the field of mental illness has always been debatable ground. Who is sane, who isn't, and who is qualified to judge? Standar…

I don't think our show's actually rude.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

'There seems to be a lot of love-hate relationships in Fiji today, between so many and the media, simply because there are so many negative reporting and a ser…