Free PubMed Articles on Mental Health
Face of Mental Illness - PBS
Resources on Mental Illness accompanying the film, West 47th Street,
by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples
Premiere Date: August 19, 2003
"Mental illness is a topic rife with stereotypes and misunderstanding."
Infographics on Mental Health
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Depression
Articles from the Harvard Mental Health Letter
Stopping Mental Health Stigma
Published on May 21, 2013
APA 2013 Attendees: "What can psychiatrists do to help stop mental health stigma?"
Glenn Close on Mental Illness
Glenn Close helps reduce stigma of mental illness
Published on Jun 6, 2012
Mon, Jun 4: Actress Glenn Close comes to Ottawa to take part in a conference aimed at reducing the stigma of mental illness. Shirlee Engel reports.
Mariel Hemingway on Mental Illness
Mariel Hemingway: Challenging The Stigma of Mental Illness & Suicide
Uploaded on Nov 25, 2011
On November 19, 2011, McLean Hospital celebrated it's 200th anniversary during a gala event. Mariel Hemingway was presented the McLean Award—the hospital's highest honor—for her commitment to serving as a champion of mental health issues, including suicide awareness and prevention.
Women and Depression
- Depression: What Every Woman Should KnowNIH Mental Health pamplet about women and mental health.
- Las Mujeres y la Depresion: Descubriendo la EsperanzaWomen and Depression en espanol.
Signs, symptoms, causes, and treatments for depression in women.
Books in the Libraries
The Madwoman Can't Speak: or Why Insanity Is Not Subversive by
Call Number: Purdy Kresge & UGL Libraries PS 374 .M44 C36 1998ISBN: 0801485142Publication Date: 1998-09-24She's out of the attic. In this provocative work, the subversive madwoman so privileged by feminist theorists and critics emerges from her confinement into the world of real social power. How, Marta Caminero-Santangelo asks, can such a figure be subversive if she's effectively imprisoned, silent and unseen? Taking issue with a prominent strand of current feminist literary criticism, Caminero-Santangelo identifies a counternarrative in writing by women in the last half-century, one that rejects madness, even as a symbolic resolution. These writings reveal how the silent protest emblematized by the madwoman, and celebrated in feminist critical practice, simply serves to lock women into stereotypes long used to oppress them.
Mad in America by Call Number: e-book, WSU Access ID & Password RequiredISBN: 9780465020140Publication Date: 2010-05-25Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In 'Mad in America', medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, 'Mad in America' examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects.A haunting, deeply compassionate book--now revised with a new introduction-- 'Mad in America' raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind.
Out of Her Mind by Call Number: UGL Library PS 648 .M38 O98 2000ISBN: 0679603301Publication Date: 2000-02-15Ever since doctors first labeled their female patients "hysterical," women have occupied a unique place in the world of mental illness. Whether harboring a dark mood or suffering from a crippling mental illness, such as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or manic depression, a select few of these women have deftly rendered the psychological turmoil that has touched their lives in writing that ranks among the most intriguing and emotionally compelling in American literature.
