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Interview Archives: Mental Health
Monday May 14, 2012, 10:06 AM
Luminarium: A Novel
Alex Shakar, Associate Professor/Program Director, Creative Writing Program, English Department, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 10 am
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Categories: Health • Mental Health
Wednesday June 15, 2011, 10:06 AM
What Is Mental Illness?
Richard J. McNally, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Host: David Inge
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Friday June 04, 2010, 10:06 AM
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry--A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis
Daniel J. Carlat, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Tufts University; Lecturer; Writer Psychiatrist
Host: David Inge
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Friday April 02, 2010, 11:06 AM
Is Bullying Increasing, or Finally Being Taken Seriously ?
Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Behavior • Children and Parenting • Crime • Education • Health • Mental Health • Psychology
Thursday March 18, 2010, 11:06 AM
Depression: Research and Treatment
Ronald Pies, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical U. Syracuse NY Clinical Prof. of Psychiatry, Tufts USM, Boston Editor in Chief, Psychiatric Times.
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Health • Mental Health • Medicine
Thursday November 05, 2009, 10:06 AM
Healing the Broken Mind: Transforming America's Failed mental Health System
Timothy A. Kelly, Ph.D., Principal at the Max De Press Center for Leadership and Director of the DePree Center Pubic Policy Institute and Associate Professor of Psychology, Fuller graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena, California
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Government • Health • Mental Health
Monday June 15, 2009, 11:06 AM
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
Mark S. Micale, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Behavior • Health • Mental Health • History • United States history • Medicine
Friday May 08, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health's 2009 Pilot Study Report
Ben Locke, Ph.D.,, Assistant Director, Research and Technology Affiliate Faculty, Counseling and Clinical Psychology, and Executive Director, Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health, Penn State University
Host: David Inge
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- Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University
- Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health 2009 Pilot Study
Categories: Health • Mental Health • Psychiatry • Psychology
Monday February 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Science of Medication in Treating Mental Illnesses
Jerald Kay, M.D., Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Host: David Inge
Psychiatric medications have dramatically changed the treatment of mental illness. But patients don’t always take medication as directed. In fact, researchers say between 30 and 50 percent of people taking these drugs voluntarily, are not taking them correctly. Our guest is Dr. Jerald Kay, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at Wright State University School of Medicine. We’ll talk about a range of issues, including the potential benefits and potential side effects of these medications.Play now:
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Categories: Community • Health • Mental Health • Psychiatry • Violence
Wednesday September 12, 2007, 10:06 AM
Bipolar Expeditions: Mania And Depression In American Culture
Emily Martin, Professor of Anthropology at New York University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Health • Mental Health • Psychiatry • Psychology
