Subject: Mental Health

• Someone You May Know: A Heterosexual Looks at Homosexuality

  July 11, 2008

• Mystery Waiter Almost Revealed

  July 21, 2008

• Daily Briefs: John McCain is very reluctant to talk about that thing he constantly talks about.

  September 5, 2008

• New York Times launches Proof

  From yesterday's stories about The New York Times having to mortgage its building, it seems like the Grey Lady could use a White Russian right now -- or an even stiffer drink. In addition to real estate, the company also runs something like a thousand-million blogs, so it's not surprising that yesterday they revealed yet another one. Meet Proof, the blog not just about alcohol (NYT already has that) but about alcohol and American life.Proof is already off to a heady start thanks to a post that r

  December 9, 2008

• Mail

  February 17, 2000

• Mail

  March 9, 2000

• Neglect Is a Misdemeanor

  February 15, 2001

• Letters

  September 13, 2001

• Letters

  October 25, 2001

• Man of the Year

  January 3, 2002

• Mental health program will continue at new regional jail

  City Councilwoman Cathy Jolly just announced that the new regional jail will get to keep the Bridge Program. The city secured $900,000 in funding for the project, which provide diagnosis, counseling, and case management to inmates who'll be moved from the Municipal Correctional Institution to the regional jail later this summer. That's really good news because the Bridge Program employs a lot of mental health professionals. In March, Carolyn Szczepanski's feature story on MCI detailed that

  June 3, 2009

• More stories from the city jail

  The first time I met with superintendent Nancy Leazer about the Municipal Correctional Institution, she told me the story of a guy named Donald. When he was booked into MCI in late 2006, she said, he was effectively paralyzed by mental illness. Two years later, he reentered society ready to take a job and rejoin his family. Without the rehabilitative services at MCI, Leazer said, "Donald would not have survived." His was one of several stories the superintendent has been circulating as evidence

  March 9, 2009

• The Municipal Correctional Institution is falling apart, but shutting it down might be destructive

  March 5, 2009

• Yuletide Extravaganza

  December 18, 2008

• For the Shorteez

  August 14, 2008

• Boob Movie

  August 7, 2008

• The Poor Canucks

  April 24, 2008

• Street Dogs at the Beaumont Club

  March 27, 2008

• Street Dogs

  March 27, 2008

• Social Medicine

  March 13, 2008

• Holy Junkies

  Michael Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies reflects on the band’s landmark Trinity Session and its 20th anniversary tour and DVD.

  March 20, 2008

• Driving While Macho

  All types of dudes do it, so there's got to be another reason for Mexican-Americans' high rate of drinking and driving.

  January 17, 2008

• Paging Dr. Houser

  December 28, 2006

• Shrink Rap

  July 19, 2007

• Oval Office Ambush

  March 8, 2007

• Don't Know Smack

  A softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick.

  December 14, 2006

• Blood Simple

  Killing a retarded inmate isn’t that hard — not if you have a cooperative psychiatrist.

  June 9, 2005

• Too Young and Too Pretty

  Before someone found Amber McGathey’s body in the Jeep, she’d spent months trying to find her way home

  November 4, 2004

• Mind Field

  Rachel MacNair has come up with a theory to bring peace. But it could turn soldiers into better killers.

  October 21, 2004

• Over the Rhine

  Monday, October 27, at Grand Emporium.

  October 23, 2003

• Party Crasher

  Now that she's earned her chair in AA, challengers might have a shot at Karen McCarthy's seat in Congress.

  June 19, 2003

• Independence Days

  Former stripper Samantha Steeves and ex-hooker Kristy Childs are trying to pass on what they've learned about sex, dope -- and death.

  January 30, 2003

• Head Trip

  Mentally ill patients may get a little too much asylum at Osawatomie.

  November 21, 2002

• Insanely Rich

  A mentally ill man is found guilty of being scary.

  March 14, 2002

• High and Writhing

  Police, neighbors and residents say Central Park Towers is creepy.

  January 31, 2002

• Sudden Death

  Norma Hunsucker's children remained faithful to their schizophrenic mother, but they missed her final exit.

  February 14, 2002

• Concrete Blonde

  Group Therapy (Manifesto)

  January 24, 2002

• Fallen Angel

  Angela Coffel, the first woman in Missouri deemed a sexually violent predator, is locked up despite overwhelming evidence that she isn't one.

  January 24, 2002

• The Cure

  A visit to the Glore Psychiatric Museum is one sure way to feel better.

  December 27, 2001

• Head Games

  The patients aren't the only ones doing crazy things at Western Missouri Mental Health.

  August 23, 2001

• House of Horrors

  Kansas regulators wouldn't close Christine Allen's house of horrors -- until a state trooper ordered them to.

  January 25, 2001

• Chain Reactions

  Linda Rupard declared war on Johnson County law enforcers, and they fought back.

  January 11, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  May 18, 2000

• Beyond the call of duty

  Dr. Cynthia Turnbull repeatedly told administrators at Topeka State Hospital that if security measures were not improved, someone was going to get hurt. Turnbull never imagined it would be her.

  May 4, 2000

• Junkie bonds

  Cowboy Junkies with Josh Rouse

  February 10, 2000

• Girl, Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir, about her stay in a psychiatric hospital in the late '60s

  January 13, 2000

• Bigamy legal in Missouri ... for at least one man

  William and Marcella Rivera and their five children The criminal bigamy case against William Rivera just got even more awkward. Rivera was facing criminal bigamy charges after his first wife's mother watched her son-in-law get married a second time on Fox 4 a couple of Valentine's Days ago. How romantic (except for that whole still-being-married business).  So wife No. 1, Marcella Rivera turned in her husband to Independence police. Guess she didn't like that fact that he'd just married ano

  May 21, 2009

• Noon Power Yoga

  July 12, 2007

• Still at war, the Army opens a new front: against soldier suicide

  August 27, 2009

• Bond, Brownback call on Obama to push for better health care for troops

  Kit Bond​Sam Brownback​Props to U.S. Sens. Kit Bond and Sam Brownback for pushing President Obama to make sure U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan get the mental health care they need. PrimeBuzz reports that Bond and Brownback are among a group of senators urging Obama to "fight against the military's misuse of personality disorder discharges," which they all teamed up on in 2007. PrimeBuzz notes that "the military views personality disorders as a pre-existing condition, [but]

  October 20, 2009