Health & Self-help

Inside The Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

After suffering a breakdown in 1948, Kay Parley was placed in Saskatchewan’s Weyburn Mental Hospital, known colloquially as “the Mental.” Nine months later, her illness never properly diagnosed but under control, she was released. While ... Read More »

April 14, 2016 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

★ Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat

By Marta Zaraska

“To publicly make the observation that meat is murder,” writes avowed animal-rights advocate Morrissey in his autobiography, “is, in fact, to claim that the law is wrong. It is also to suggest that all British ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Health & Self-help

Malignant Metaphor: Finding the Hidden Meaning of Cancer

By Alanna Mitchell

Reading Malignant Metaphor, I was reminded of the first times, as a child, I overheard adults speak of cancer. The topic was always addressed in hushed tones, as though a sooty secret were being shared. ... Read More »

August 31, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

By Marc Lewis; Ph.D.

The arc of Natalie’s descent into addiction began with an experimental appetite for LSD, ecstasy, and, eventually, prescription opiates OxyContin, Percocet, and Dilaudid. From there the college student progressed to smoking, snorting, and finally injecting ... Read More »

July 27, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A Woman’s Guide to Coping with Life

By Monica Heisey

From Tina Fey to Amy Poehler to Lena Dunham, comedic memoirs by famous funny females have been successfully climbing up the bestseller lists for the past few years. Canadian-born writer and comedian Monica Heisey doesn’t ... Read More »

July 16, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Dogs and Underdogs: Finding Happiness at Both Ends of the Leash

By Elizabeth Abbott

Admirers of Toronto writer Elizabeth Abbott’s non-fiction may be surprised by her new book. While her previous titles – including A History of Marriage and Sugar: A Bittersweet History – were characterized by academic exuberance ... Read More »

May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act

By Dan Rubinstein

Dan Rubinstein is obsessed with walking. The journalist and magazine editor’s new book presents a thoroughly researched argument testifying to the fact that walking is good – for our bodies, minds, spirits, societies, economy, creativity, ... Read More »

April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Opening Heaven’s Door: What the Dying May Be Trying to Tell Us About Where They’re Going

By Patricia Pearson

Like her previous works (including When She Was Bad and A Brief History of Anxiety), Patricia Pearson’s latest tackles some of life’s big questions. This time, however, instead of addressing issues affecting the living, the ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Is Work Killing You? A Doctor’s Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

By David Posen

David Posen’s fourth self-help book outlines changes to the modern office that have led to a workforce drowning under what he calls the Big Three stressors: volume, velocity, and abuse. Corporate downsizing in the 1990s, ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

How to Be a Bush Pilot: A Field Guide to Getting Luckier

By Claudia Dey

Sex is probably second only to personal finance among the many subjects readers are constantly seeking advice on. Claudia Dey, formerly a sex columnist for the defunct Toro magazine and The Globe and Mail, and ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

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