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Psychiatry

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction

‘Premonitions Are Impossible, and They Come True All the Time’

by Kelly Stout March 1, 2019October 19, 2022

What if the prediction of your death could bring it about?

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future

by Kelly Stout February 28, 2019October 19, 2022

After people predicted a mining disaster, a psychiatrist began collecting premonitions, and a startling number turned out to be true. To his horror, one seer predicted the psychiatrist’s own death. He spent years looking over his shoulder, living a life that begged the question: can you scare yourself to death?

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Chimayó

by Longreads January 24, 2019October 19, 2022

Esmé Weijun Wang discovers a new interpretation of faith while on two kindred pilgrimages: one to find an accurate medical diagnosis, one to a sacred site in New Mexico.

Posted inCrime, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Rules For Being John Hinckley

by michelleweber March 24, 2017October 19, 2022

In a fascinating New York magazine profile of John Hinckley, recently released, writer Lisa Miller lays out the conditions of his freedom.

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