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Notes on delirium and locality

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● February 22, 2013 July 15, 2022

Or, how to get a public conversation going

Mad people, sane ducks

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● February 8, 2013 July 15, 2022

Or, recent events at the St. John’s campus…

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The case of Theresa Spence and the barely spoken racism of Canadian media

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● January 28, 2013 July 15, 2022

The swift slide from unreasonable to mad

Have a ‘happy happy happy’ holiday

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● December 14, 2012 July 15, 2022

And now for the final mad thought of the year: a reflection on the sane frivolity of the holiday season.

Another…

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● November 30, 2012 July 15, 2022

Why are young men and women choosing to take their own lives?

Flatten, level-down, put to sleep: how we treat our young

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● November 16, 2012 July 15, 2022

Feeling sad about depression, part 2

Feeling sad about depression?

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● November 2, 2012 July 15, 2022

Or, the end of the anti-depressant era

Why we should call things by their name

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● October 19, 2012 July 15, 2022

The case of Amanda Todd: not just about bullying

Starter thoughts on something like Mental Illness

By Peter Trnka ● Mad Thoughts ● October 5, 2012 July 15, 2022

A challenge to understand madness, or mental illness, in a more compassionate way.