CPC Blog: Posts tagged with 'stigma'
Recommended Reading
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon. What are the challenges to parenting a child who is very different from her parents; whose characteristics and identity are shared more horizontally with a peer group instead of vertically with the nuclear family? From thousands of hours of interviews with […]
Join the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center’s NAMIWALK Team
The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center has formed a team again this year for the 2.5-mile NAMIWalks. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. The NAMIWalks events serve to raise public awareness of mental illness as well […]
Inside the Mind of a Domestic Terrorist: The Unabomber
This invitation is from Marilyn Mongeon Quill, Founding Director of Passion for Change and CPC member Linda Gross, MD, Vice-Chair of the Board of Passion for Change. This event is co-sponsored by the Cleveland Bar Association. Monday, February 27, 2012 5:30 to 8:15 p.m. An evening with internationally acclaimed forensic psychiatrist Phillip J. Resnick, M.D. […]
Ninth Annual NAMI Walks in Cleveland
The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Greater Cleveland is proud to announce its 9th Annual NAMI Walks for the Mind of America. NAMIWalks ‘11 will step off in Greater Cleveland on September 24, 2011 at Voinovich Park in Downtown Cleveland. Over the past eight years, NAMI Walks has raised more than $550,000 to support […]
Post-Deployment Mental Health
A thought-provoking article in New York Magazine reports on alarming rates of mental illness among soldiers returning from the Middle East, and questions the efficacy of the therapies available to them.
Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center Observes Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) takes place October 3-9 and offers an opportunity to learn more about serious mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Education changes attitudes and lives. The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center continues to educate the public, as well as mental health professionals, aiming to improve the lives of individuals […]