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Ruth Johnston

Ruth Johnston

Assisted Outpatient Treatment: where do we stand?

I’m talking with Lynn Nanos, a Massachusetts social worker specialized in evaluating serious mental illness. Lynn has worked in emergency…

Mar 4, 2020

Assisted Outpatient Treatment: where do we stand?

Mar 4, 2020

Ruth Johnston

Mental Illness and Violence: About that MacArthur study…

I’m talking with Lynn Nanos, a social worker specialized in evaluating serious mental illness. Lynn has worked in emergency care…

Apr 26, 2019

Mental Illness and Violence: About that MacArthur study…

Apr 26, 2019

Ruth Johnston

Psychiatric Treatment Culture: The Effects of Losing Hope

I’m talking with Lynn Nanos, a social worker specialized in evaluating serious mental illness. Lynn has worked in emergency care…

Apr 26, 2019

Psychiatric Treatment Culture: The Effects of Losing Hope

Apr 26, 2019

Ruth Johnston

Happiness, courage, and oxygen

Happiness is like oxygen.

Mar 31, 2019

Mar 31, 2019

Ruth Johnston

Five reasons why we can’t get help for mental illness: Interview with Lynn Nanos

I want to share with you my cool opportunity to talk to an expert on what goes wrong when families try to get help for their loved ones…

Mar 15, 2019

Five reasons why we can’t get help for mental illness: Interview with Lynn Nanos

Mar 15, 2019

Ruth Johnston

Going home: the amazing eel

Animals amaze us by knowing all kinds of things without any way to learn them. When we can see learning, we’re interested but not amazed…

Aug 9, 2018

Going home: the amazing eel

Aug 9, 2018

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Kittens and puppies don’t learn the same things…

During their first week of life, kittens start lining up to nurse in the same order, but puppies never learn that. It’s obviously more…

May 24, 2018

Kittens and puppies don’t learn the same things…

May 24, 2018

Ruth Johnston

What kittens and babies know

I’m watching video of an orphan kitten who was adopted by a mother cat with a litter about the same age. (Thanks Kitten Academy!) The…

May 22, 2018

What kittens and babies know

May 22, 2018

Ruth Johnston

Dear SPLC: you have no clue about schizophrenia, but you’re not alone.

Dear Southern Poverty Law Center,

Aug 17, 2017

Aug 17, 2017

Ruth Johnston

Schizophrenia and violence: the problem is reality, not violence.

Nobody wants to own it. It’s senseless, gory, unpredictable, and always gut-wrenchingly sad. I wouldn’t want to own it, either, but I do…

Jun 22, 2017

Jun 22, 2017

Ruth Johnston

Ruth Johnston

I'm the author of Re-Modeling the Mind: Personality in Balance; and sometimes I write from family experience about better ways to treat schizophrenia.

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