Donald Trump started his second presidential term on January 20 th. Trump has made a lot of news, but what has he accomplished? Let us consider his campaign promises. The Economy: Trump defeated ...

In modern day society in the U.S., with our level of technology, medicine, and economic opportunity, government and citizens are obliged by common ethics to take care of those who could not survive on ...

In the past, some psychologists theorized that schizophrenia passes from one generation to the next because the parents are or were "schizophrenogenic." This was a way of blaming parents for the ...

Despite the growing toll of sick and dead and the heightened restrictions during the fourth week of October, 1918 as the “Spanish Influenza” epidemic spread in Berkeley, on October 23, 1918, the ...

Mental health treatment, however, is much better than it was before the discovery of Thorazine in 1950, and it is better still following the discovery of Clozaril. Yet, the reader should realize that ...

In modern times, it is established that racism and homophobia are not socially acceptable. Now, in today's culture, people are finding other ways to hate. Calling someone, "one of those strange people ...

Thirty years ago, people could see that I periodically became psychotic, and they were aware that sometimes I had behavior issues. I was on antipsychotics (which, by the way, I still take to this day) ...

If this system of paid parking is implemented, the cost of parking to everyone who doesn’t have an A permit will rise. If there are other nearby areas that don’t impose this parking fee, then some of ...

Opens October 21 at the Elmwood in Berkeley Filmmaker Craig Atkinson's dad was a Detroit-area cop for 29 years and a member of his town's first SWAT team in 1989. Both the filmmaker and his retired ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceAdditionally, there are different types of mental capacity. The ability to multitask, let’s say, working for Starbuck’s for example, is a very different capacity ...

Jack Bragen is author of "An Offering of Power: Valuable, Unusual Meditation Methods." He lives in Martinez, California with his wife, Joanna Bragen.