While the pictures have created lasting characters throughout time, some of the most graphic and cherished roles on screen have been that of real people. Due to life's own bewildering ways, often the ...

Sociologist Michael Bury first described chronic illness as a “biographical disruption” in the 1980s. This description and the theory Bury developed around it continue to be relevant in understanding ...

In 1907, a 42-year-old woman named Minna Bernays confessed she was having an affair with Sigmund Freud. Normally this would have been of little consequence. After all, men routinely had (and still ...

“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.” A landslide, indeed. Blame the advent of 24-hour cable news, the popularity of reality TV or social media, ...

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