Romantic attraction to criminals is not a new craze. Films have used the ‘bad boy’ trope to describe love interests for generations. While these fictional crushes remain fairly harmless, some individuals are attracted to real criminal offenders, a phenomenon known as hybristophilia. A famous example of this is the Ted Bundy groupies, who sent love […]
The lyrics of the 1995 song titled Black Star by Radiohead from their album The Bends are most often interpreted as an individual in a romantic relationship with someone suffering from mental health issues. In Black Star, Yorke sings about his partner’s cognitive distortions and tries to understand the darkness they are experiencing. Yet, Yorke […]
Healing the Whole Family is a graphic story written by Grace Chiang in collaboration with mental wellness consultant Eunice Yuen and artist Nealie Ngo. The story follows a teenage girl’s struggles with her mental health and her family. The graphic story was designed as a resource for individuals experiencing similar struggles and may be particularly […]
Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips” was published in 1965 and in her book “Ariel”, her second collection of published poetry. This collection of poetry was published two years after Plath’s death. Described by critics as “intensely personal”, Plath addresses themes of motherhood, marriage, depression, and sexuality. To understand and analyze “Tulips”, we must further understand the […]
Toxic work culture has created a notion around resiliency where we are led to believe that it stems from working through distress and mental overload. It is about pushing through the pain, holding on for a little longer to achieve success, despite arriving at this outcome completely exhausted. TED Talk speaker Jane Marir Chan offers […]
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tsbuew9vweyksi2c/Dante_Podcast_1.mp3 In this episode, Contributing Writer Dante Lewis-Chan sits down with Dr. Anita Tucker, a Professor of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire, where her work focuses on outdoor and adventure therapy. She is also the co-coordinator of the Outdoor Research Collaborative. Together, we explore how outdoor and adventure therapy works and its […]
The past six years have been marked by multiple active global conflicts, many of which have evolved into expansive crises that significantly worsen mental health outcomes. In fact, Michael Liebrenz, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bern states, “The current state of crises we are witnessing right now are at the most active point […]
Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter born on June 12, 1890, in the small town of Tulln. His interest in art began early, and by the age of sixteen, he had been admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1907, Schiele was discovered by Gustav Klimt, a well-established painter who quickly recognized […]
Pursuing a dream can feel both thrilling and exhausting at the same time. Blue Lips by CORTIS is an introspective song that captures this exact tension between wanting to cling onto something that makes you feel alive but also simultaneously wearing you down over time. CORTIS is a five-member K-Pop boy band whose five members–Martin, […]
Siobahn Kaufman, a graduate of the Breda University of Applied Sciences and a resident of the Netherlands, is an emerging painter known for her Dark Surreal Self Portraits and her focus on body horror. Many of her self-portraits characterize the female body as monstrous, covered in blood and teeth, limbs torn to shreds. Aside from […]