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Serendip's mental health resource lists are intended to provide access to web materials which we believe are of continuing usefulness in discussions of mental health issues. This "News" section is aimed at helping people be aware of possible "growing points" relevant to mental health discussions, news reports which offer what may become important new perspectives on mental health, relating either to mental health itself or to related social, political, and economic phenomena that impact on it.

• More in College Seek Help for Psychological Problems, from the New York Times, February 3, 2003
• Dan Gottlieb | Help teens cope with isolation, stress, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 2003
• NAMI Walks for the Mind of America 2003 In May 2003, thousands of concerned citizens in 13 communities across the nation will march together to raise money and awareness about our country's need for a world-class treatment and recovery system for people with mental illness.
• Even in the Age of Prozac, Some Prefer the Couch, from the New York Times, January 28, 2003
• Parental Notice Approved By House: Health Providers Would Report Teens, from the Washington Post, February 3, 2003
• The Psychotic Bank Robber: A Schizophrenic Teen Takes Desperate Measures. His Parents Want Help. The Law Wants Prison, from the Washington Post, January 26, 2003
• Shock therapy to end at Friend's Hospital: Saying it can't afford the cost, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 2003
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Deer, from the New York Times Magazine, February 2, 2003
• A New Choice for Treating ADHD, From the Washington Post, February 4, 2003
• A dispute on doctors' cerebral palsy role, From the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 10, 2003
• Never Released, Yet Often Missing St. Elizabeths Patient Fled 12 Times, From The Washington Post, February 10, 2003
• When Normalcy's a Goal, Not Just How Things Are: TV Movie Review, PROFOUNDLY NORMAL, From the New York Times, February 8, 2003
• New Method Aids Evaluation of Alzheimer's Drugs, From the New York Times, February 6, 2003
• Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left, From From the New York Times, February 4, 2003
• Efforts target teen suicides,From the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 10, 2003
• State Can Make Inmate Sane Enough to Execute, from the New York Times, February 11, 2003
• Medicate to Kill, from the Washington Post, February 17, 2003
• Postcards From the Edge: Joe Mills Turned Mental Illness Into Photographs, from the Washington Post, February 13, 2003
• A poster state for fiscal crisis: A long list of woes have left states reeling from sea to sea. Nobody has it worse than Oregon, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 2003
• Cruelest Choice Faces Parents of Mentally Ill, from the New York Times, February 16, 2003
• Custody Relinquishment to Obtain Mental Health Services for Their Children, from the Bazelton Center for Mental Health Law
• Looking for Spinoza: the first chapter of the new book by ANTONIO DAMASIO, From the New York Times, February 23, 2002
• SPIDER: A New Film by David Cronenberg explores schizophrenia, Review from moviemartyr.com
• Not Just Genes: Moving Beyond Nature vs. Nurture,From the New York Times, February 25, 2003
• A Unified Field Theory of Mental Disorders, From the Washington Post, February 18, 2003
• Repress Yourself, From the New York Times, February 23, 2003
• A Flight of Mind: The Act of Dissociation Can Protect Children Emotionally From Trauma, but Repeated Use May Cause Lasting Harm, From the Washington Post, February 18, 2003
• Long-term antidepressant use cuts relapse, From USA Today, February 20, 2003
• Mental Health Advocates Call for End to Insurance Discrimination, News Release From the Bazelon Center, February 27, 2003
• Unspeakable ConversationsFrom the New York Times Magazine, February 16, 2003
• Girl, 15, may face jury trial in slaying, From the Philadelphia Inquirer February 27, 2003
• Residents, Increasingly, Are Younger and Troubled, From the New York Times, February 27, 2003

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These resource lists are being maintained by Debbie Plotnick, working with Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, and James Martin, School of Social Work and Social Research, at Bryn Mawr College. Suggestions for additions to the list are welcome, as are more general thoughts about how to most effectively make available information, and promote conversation, about issues of mental health. Contact dplotnic@brynmawr.edu - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu - jmartin@brynmawr.edu.


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