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CLICK HERE FOR A COPY OF THE STATE OF MIND: AMERICA 2004 PROGRAM GUIDE This special broadcast event is The Infinite Mind's third annual examination of the state of the nation's mental health care system, taped before a live audience. Join host Dr. Fred Goodwin and guests actress Carrie Fisher ("Star Wars," "When Harry Met Sally," "Hannah and her Sisters"), who reads from and discusses her new novel, "The Best Awful," a sequel to "Postcards from the Edge; and the casts of the smash Broadway hits Avenue Q (2004 Tony Award for "Best Musical") and Wicked (10 Tony nominations) perform as part of "The Musical Mind on Broadway. John Hockenberry offers a live commentary. The program also features leading mental health policymakers and scientists on new federal efforts to transform the nation's mental health care system and cutting-edge research on bipolar disorder. Guests include A. Kathryn Power, the newly-appointed Director of the U.S. Center for Mental Health Services, Robert Post, M.D., Director of the Biological Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health; Dominic Lam, Ph.D., of the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, who has pioneered research into the use of cognitive techniques to assist patients in identifying the early signs of bipolar disorder; and Stephan Heckers, M.D., director of the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Program Segments: Transforming the Mental Health Care System View
video introduction of A. Kathryn Power and background on New
Freedom Commission report: Bipolar Disorder in the Brain Stephan Heckers, M.D. is director of the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Dr. Heckers uses neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, and anatomical investigation to study the neural basis for psychotic disorders. Robert Post, M.D., Chief, Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. His work on the “kindling model” of bipolar disorder is widely recognized as a foundation of current understanding and treatment of the illness. Beyond Compliance: A New Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorder Reading and Interview: Carrie Fisher, actress and author, with a reading from The Best Awful Carrie
Fisher is an acclaimed writer, actress, and born
Hollywood insider. In recent years she has raised public awareness
of mental illness and its treatment by speaking publicly about
her long struggle to acknowledge and find treatment for bipolar
disorder, which she says nearly took her life. The daughter
of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, Carrie Fisher
made her screen debut at age 17 in Shampoo, which she followed
up with roles in movies including Star Wars (Princess
Leia Organa), Hannah and Her Sisters, and When
Harry Met Sally. Her darkly funny novels include the semi-autobiographical
Postcards from the Edge, which was made into a movie starring
Meryl Streep, and, hot off the press, The Best Awful.
And special commentary from The Infinite Mind's John Hockenberry. John is among the most respected broadcast journalists working today. He has contributed weekly commentaries to The Infinite Mind since its first broadcast. Mr. Hockenberry is a correspondent for Dateline NBC, prior to which he reported for National Public Radio and ABC News. At last count, his honors include two Peabody Awards, a DuPont-Columbia University Award, and four Emmys. Mr. Hockenberry is the author of a memoir, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, and a novel, A River Out of Eden. He has written for The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Washington Post, ID Magazine, and New Yorker. |
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The Infinite Mind is a non-profit production of Lichtenstein Creative Media, in association with the New York Foundation for the Arts and WNYC/FM. Underwriting for The Infinite Mind's State of Mind: America 2004 has been provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Center for Mental Health Services; and in the form of an unrestricted educational grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. Additional funding was provided by the National Society of Genetic Counselors, Inc., Distance Learning Network, M-3 Information, and listeners like you. Lichtenstein Creative Media Creating Media that
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