Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

Practicing psychiatry and addiction medicine for over four decades provided ample evidence of how thoroughly people can ignore contradictions in their thinking and ambivalence in their feelings.

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