The black dog

“A light seen suddenly in the storm, snow/ Coming from all sides, like flakes/ Of sleep, and myself/ On the road to the dark barn,/ Halfway there, a black dog near me.” – Robert B…

Welcome to the “The Black Dog Project” – a blog series which will follow and analyze the appearances of a genre of metaphor for depression, visualizing it as a black dog.

An exhibition looking at 18th-century perspectives on depression could be an unlikely way to lift the spirits

Coined by Samuel Johnson and popularized by Winston Churchill, the “black dog” has become a ubiquitous expression for depression around the…

Standing on the sidelines of my daughter’s soccer game the other night, I found myself in conversation with a good friend. “How was your vacation?,” I asked. “It was wonderful. Playing in the pool. Relaxing. Just being together as a family…it was just wonderful,” he looked off, a bit wistfully,

Finest Hour 155, Summer 2012 Page 28 Leading Churchill Myths – The Myth of the “Black Dog” Churchill Did Have Dark Moods, But He Was Not Bipolar By Carol Breckenridge […]