Bad Medicine
We go to the doctor to get better, to assure ourselves that we’re not sick, to have company — and usually (shockingly often, in fact) it works brilliantly. But sometimes events don’t go the way they...
View ArticleNarrative Medicine
Story Collider reporter Steven Berkowitz discussed the concept of narrative medicine — the idea that storytelling can empower patients and make medical care more effective — with psychologist and...
View ArticleWelcome to The Story Collider Magazine
"We all have a story about science, and at The Story Collider, we want to hear those stories." That's been part of our standard blurb since our inception a year and a half ago, and it's true. We've...
View ArticleThe Land of Cockaigne
I was twenty-six the first time I visited a shrink, the practice tucked away on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a brass plate on a black door. The therapists' offices faced in toward the waiting room,...
View ArticleThe Last Thing I Heard
When we were first starting storytelling, we studied with The Amazing Margot Leitman (although she just goes by “Margot Leitman”). She would often use extraordinary stories and bits of stories to...
View ArticleHair Gone Wrong . . . Or Just Gone
Rapunzel sucks. Even in her most tragic, desperate moments did she really ever truly understand the value of good hair? I don't think so. Because of her, and Barbie and Marilyn Monroe, I've always...
View ArticleSide Effects
Cyndi Freeman's story of receiving frightening advice from her doctor—and how it inspired a surprising career change—was recorded at one of The Story Collider's first shows, in August of 2010. In the...
View ArticlePassing
I arrived in Jersey City with my mother and brother on a dark night in January 1986. Mom had fallen in love and had dragged us along to her new life with her new husband. We were transplants from...
View ArticleA Very Sad Story
Sometimes you can look at a child and say, "Man, he was meant to be a basketball star." That's what people used to say about me too, except instead of basketball star, they said lawyer.No, seriously.I...
View ArticleAwake
I blinked my eyes open. Early morning sunlight sneaked through the blinds on my window, casting a glow on the mess on my floor. Sitting up, I saw my bedroom in complete disarray. There were ripped...
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