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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.

• The challenge of coming forward, A first difficult step in the treatment of mental illness, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 2002
• Eating disorders hit rural South Africa, from Mental Health Net, October 2002
• Justice Dept. to Scrutinize Confinement of Mentally Ill, from the New York Times, October 12, 2002
• Brain Size Tied to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, from the New York Times, October 9, 2002
• Mental Illness and the State, From the Washington Post, October 9, 2002
• Court for Mentally Ill Defendants Will Start Today, from the New York Times, October 1, 2002
• A Literary Review at Bellevue? Believe It, from the New York Times, October 2, 2002
• Deflating Self-Esteem's Role in Society's Ills, from the New York Times, October 1, 2002
• Myths About Drugs and Welfare, from the Washington Post, October 1, 2002
• The Secret Sacrifice: To get help for their mentally ill children, some parents have to give them up, from Time Magazine, October 22, 2002
• Study: Schizophrenia may be many ailments, from the Philadelphia Inquirer October 24, 2002
• Lawmakers fail to boost mental-health insurance, from the Philadelphia Inquirer October 18, 2002
• Abortion Pill May Help Treat Severe Form of Depression, from the New York Times October 22, 2002
• Chemical sensitivity tied to anxiety, depression, from Reuters Health October 23, 2002

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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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