A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma

A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma


“He was provoking all these symptoms he had wanted to cure”: Nina Shope, author of Asylum

October 01, 2024

How have power dynamics between doctors and patients changed over the past century and a half? In my second and final interview with Nina Shope, author of the award-winning historical novelAsylum, we talk about the complicated relationship between neurol