Psychiarty

Comics by Randall Munroe from xkcd.com.

Photograph by Helen Pynor from red sea blue water series. C-type photograph on Duratran, face-mounted on glass.

US advertising of Xanax (alprazolam).

Alprazolam is primarily used to treat moderate to severe anxiety disorders (e.g., social anxiety disorder) and panic attacks.

From "American Journal of Psychiatry" (1993)

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A look at the many strange effects of placebos.

Another minimal poster from Patrick Smith.

"Freud with a patient" - a sculpture from sand by Spanish sculptor Aarón Jiménez at the International Sand Sculpture Festival in 2009 in Portugal.

I wonder if this picture is sad or optimistic.