Media Reviews
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- Psychiatric News, the Newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association, has a story about witnessing violence in its July 1 issue. Writer Joan Arehart-Treichel takes a look at a study which says just witnessing violence can lead to violent behavior in youngsters.
Read More | 7/8/05
- HealthyMinds.Org, a site maintained by the American Psychiatric Association, has placed its series of "Let's Talk Facts" brochures online for free access by the public.
Read More | 6/29/05
- Recently actor Tom Cruise made some anti-psychiatry remarks, mainly based on his experience in the Church of Scientology, and the American Psychiatric Association has responded.
Read More | 6/29/05
- 60 Minutes, Wednesday (June 8), featured a Maryland program for released convicts called the Maryland Reentry Partnership. This voluntary program has been active for three years and has counseled 193 released prisoners, many of whom have been drug addicts.
Read More | 6/9/05
- Star Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez revealed in a New York Times interview that he has had psychological counseling for many years and it has been very helpful to him on a personal level. He has also made a sizable donation to the Children's Aid Society.
Read More | 6/9/05
- Daja Meston is now a 34 year old college graduate living in Boston whose extraordinary life story is recounted in a front page story in the March 15, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal. His eventual psychotherapy helped him to come to terms with his feelings about his parents, who had given him at age three to a Tibetan family, and with recovery from a depression.
Read More | 3/19/05
- People magazine recently took a look at NBC veteran Jane Pauley's new book which mentions her struggle with bipolar disorder. We are reproducing here a letter sent to People by our own Dr. Mark Komrad talking about the stigma and divisions in care that still affect mental health patients.
Read More | 9/24/04
- The October issue of Consumer Reports surveys 3079 readers who have received treatment for depression with some interesting results.
Read More | 9/14/04
- An article in Mental Health Works takes a look at depression among men in the workplace. The article is being published in conjuction with an awareness campaign being held by the national Institute of Mental Health. We provide links to NiMH's informative site and a U.S. News and World Report look at CEOs and depression also.
Read More | 3/3/04
- Carrie Fisher has published a sequel to Postcards From the Edge, her fictionalized account of her own bilpolar disorder. The new book is titled The Best Awful and we provide links to reviews and information about it.
Read More | 3/3/04
- Sherwin Nuland's book detailing his father's midlife depression, Lost in America: A Journey With My Father, continues to garner mention: this time in the New York Times' New & Noteworthy book section.
Read More | 3/3/04
- A new development in "punk rock" music is directed at preventing suicide in troubled adolescents. This has been labeled "therapy rock" in an article in the New York Times January 4, 2004.
Read More | 1/20/04
- Television and movies typically perpetuate the myth that schizophrenics are violent people prone to murder. This distortion is the topic of an article by David Noonan in Schizophrenia Digest (fall 2003 issue). The full article is available at their website, too.
Read More | 12/11/03
- The New York Times recognizes new U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck and how her poetry reflects the self critical honesty gathered while battling anorexia. Read more to get our overview as well as find more information on Gluck along with some of her poems.
Read More | 11/5/03
- The death of the internationally renowned visionary artist, Paul Darmofall, known as "the Baltimore Glassman," was noted in an obituary in the Baltimore Sun, October 29, 2003. The 78 year old had suffered a head injury in a 1953 automobile accident that previpitated schizophrenia.
Read More | 11/5/03
- Studies of suicide have been almost entirely concerned with those who commit the act, while there has been very little focus on the effect on the families who remain as survivors. The possible traumatic effects on the survivors is the subject of an article by Erica Goode in the October 28, 2003 issue of the New York Times. Read more to see our overview and how to retrieve the full article.
Read More | 11/5/03
- Author Doug Wead was recently interviewed on public radio in Baltimore about his book All the President's Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families, which focuses parent-child relationships in presidential families.
Read More | 10/28/03
- CBS.com features a Sixty Minutes II article on legendary jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell who plays despite his schizophrenia.
Read More | 9/5/03
- The May 26, 2003 issue of Newsweek includes an article by Inez Okrent, the mother of a Harvard student who committed suicide. Among a look at his life, she calls for changes to universities' student information packets and general information outreach to parents.
Read More | Link update: 9/5/03
Worth watching...
- The Fells Point Corner Theater presents Enrico IV, a play dealing with illusion and reality inmental illness, from OCtober 29 through November 28.
Read More | 11/21/04
- Dr. Leon Levin takes a brief look at USA Network's popular TV series Monk and how it perpetuates the stigma of mental illnesses.
Read More | 10/8/04
- "Close-ups: Psychoanalysts Look at Film," a film/lecture series sponsored by the Baltimore -Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, will be shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art on four consecutive Fridays, beginning April 23, 2004. This series is in its 22nd year. Each film is explored for its psychological riches and its capacity to bring vividly to life a psychoanalytic understanding of human nature.
Read More | 3/5/04
- The film, "The Butterfly Effect," will be shown by The Maryland Psychiatric Society in a film/lecture presentation at the Columbia Mall AMC 1:30 p.m. January 25, 2004. Richard Loewenstein, M.D., Medical Director of the Trauma Disorders Program at the Sheppard Pratt Hospital, will be the discussant.
Read More | 1/20/04
- The documentary The Building of a Sanctuary, was shown on Maryland Public Television Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 8:00 PM in conjunction with Mental Illness Awareness Week.
Read More | 9/5/03
- The MFP and the Maryland Psychiatric Society co-sponsored the play 'Night Mother on October 4, 2003 at Goucher College. The program dealt with the subject of suicide. Choose "Read More" to get further information on the program.
Read More | 9/5/03
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