Living Crazy

THe Lancet review.

Hastings Center, bioethics research institute, convenes a workshop to discuss the controversies surrounding childhood bipolar diagnoses. 

A couple of recent radio talk show conversations with Emily Martin on the cultural context of bipolar disorder, with audio files:

WILL Radio Urbana- Champaign, Illinois

Focus 580
David Inge
Interviews with newsmakers and experts on international affairs and daily life
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/focus/archives/07/070910.htm

WYPR Radio Baltimore, Md

The Marc Steiner Show

In writing Bipolar Expeditions, I thought of the book like a house with many windows through which readers could look at moods, mood disorders, and bipolar disorder in particular. Pg 99 of the book opens one of those windows, beginning a chapter that explores how psychiatrists learn to diagnose bipolar disorder in "affective disorder rounds." Rounds is a teaching setting in which a patient who has been admitted to the hospital with mood problems is "presented" to a group of medical students. In that chapter, we see how fuzzy the lines between different mood disorders are and how difficult it is for psychiatrists and medical students to decide among alternative possibilities. We also see how patients contest the doctors’ efforts to extract information from them, which they anticipate will be used to diagnose them in ways they might not

Please Join us for an Evening with
Emily Martin
author of
Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture

Wednesday, November 7 at 7 pm

We will have a discussion of Bipolar Expeditions, Emily Martin's new book on mania and depression in American culture.

Moderator: Elizabeth Lunbeck, PhD, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
Commentator: Helena Hansen, MD/PhD, Department of Psychiatry, New York University

All are welcome; wine and cheese will be served afterward.

Location: Room 542, 726 Broadway (Center for Religion and Media- NYU- fifth floor), NY, NY

If you want to read something in advance, the first chapter of Bipolar Expeditions is available on the Princeton University web site: http://press.princeton.edu

 

There is an NPR call in radio show with Emily from Focus 580, WILL, on line at http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/focus/archives/07/070910.htm

What is behind the recent explosion in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder among American children? There is much to wonder about, as we know from Time magazine’s 2002 cover, “Young and Bipolar;” and from the recent 60 Minutes segment, “What killed Rebecca Riley?” Four year old Rebecca is said to have died from an overdose of psychiatric medications given to her for her bipolar disorder. The New York Times had already reported last month that the number of American children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder increased 40-fold from 1994 to 2003. Behind these statistics lie powerful cultural changes in how Americans regard their moods.

Please join us for the next Psy-ences Seminar

Bipolar Expeditions
Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, 3-5 pm

We will have a discussion of Bipolar Expeditions, Emily Martin’s new book on mania and depression in American culture.

Moderator: Elizabeth Lunbeck, PhD, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

Commentator: Helena Hansen, MD/PhD, Department of Psychiatry, New York University

All are welcome; wine and cheese will be served afterward.
Location: Room 542, 726 Broadway (Center for Religion and Media- NYU- fifth floor), NY, NY

If you want to read something in advance, the first chapter of Bipolar Expeditions is available on the Princeton University web site:
http://press.princeton.edu/

There is an NPR call in radio show with Emily from Focus 580, WILL, on line at
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/focus/archives/07/070910.htm