THE UNDERSTANDING

At INCIGHT, we are lucky to share office space with the Hood to Coast team; we get to hear a lot of inspirational stories about...

We really shouldn’t treat mental health differently than physical health. The truth is, they’re connected. One’s a foundation, and the...

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month , which brings light to the work INCIGHT does all year long. From the very...

All the Light We Cannot See is an adaptation of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Set during World War II,...

If you have a disability, you’ll likely feel tempted to stay in your geo - graphic “comfort zone,” where your doctor, therapist, and...

Jacob Chase’s 2020 movie Come Play stars Azhy Robertson as non- verbal autistic boy named Oliver. Robertson may not be autistic himself,...

Picture this: you’re sitting at home, minding your own business, when suddenly some negative thought pops into your head. You ignore it,...

Inspired by true events and with a caper flair straight out of Argo or Now You See Me , George Nolfi’s 2020 film The Banker tells the...

In 1984, John G Avildsen’s The Karate Kid got a lot of people interested in karate and taught a generation things like discipline,...

Francis Lawrence’s 2014 movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - part 1 focuses on the use of media to sway public opinions and back or...

Neil Burger’s 2017 comedy-drama film The Upside stars Bryan Cranston as wealthy quadraplegic Phillip Lacasse, and Kevin Hart as Dell...

James Wan’s 2021 horror movie Malignant has been jokingly described online as “a film about siblings who have each other’s backs,” but...

Schizophrenia seems like a ripe plot device for horror or thriller movies, since the protagonist can see or hear things other characters...

The prevalence of Hollywood movies with protagonists experiencing a disability or significant barrier has risen exponentially in the past...

In the TNT drama Perception , Daniel Pierce (Eric McCormack) is a professor of neuroscience at Chicago Lake Michigan University who...

by Mitch Blatt Media can do a lot to shape how people think of a thing. Kids’ cartoons have relatively ham-fisted morals to try and...

I don’t know about you, but one of the first things I think of in association with “mental health” is “stigma”