Big Ideas: David Healy on Psychopharmacology
Psychiatrist David Healy with his lecture Gripped by a Python: How Pharmaceutical Companies Control the Medical Marketplace. The lecture was delivered at Bethune College in Toronto on February 27, 2003.
http://ww3.tvo.org/video/176502/david-healy-psychopharmacology
TVO is investigating mental health during the week of May 7-11/2012–and each program is available on podcast or video.
On the Agenda, Steve Paikin and his guests examine Youth Mental Health, issues with labels and the forthcoming DSM-V, The new strategy recently proposed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, depression, schizophrenia, and the language of mental health.
http://theagenda.tvo.org/episode/177055/all-too-familiar-living-with-depression
James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate_change.html
James Hansen is Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. His early research on the clouds of Venus helped identify their composition as sulfuric acid. Since the late 1970s, he has focused his research on Earth’s climate, especially human-made climate change. Hansen is known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. Hansen is recognized for speaking truth to power, for identifying ineffectual policies as greenwash, and for outlining the actions that the public must take to protect the future of young people and the other species on the planet.
“Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.”
“It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.” (James Hansen)
JUNG’S RED BOOK on IDEAS
CBC has done a 2 part radio show on the program IDEAS exploring the history and meaning of Jung’s Red Book.
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2012/04/23/the-red-book/#igImgId_37084
“In 2009, a very unusual book was published. The extraordinary Red Book by Carl Gustav Jung. You know him as the great Swiss psychologist who explored the depths of what he called the “collective unconscious.”
Jung said the Red book, begun in his thirties, was central to his thinking. Yet he never published it during his lifetime – he died at the age of 85 in 1961. The manuscript lay in a bank vault until his family were persuaded to let this intensely autobiographical work see the light of day.
Through 1913-15, Jung entered the harrowing and pitiless inner world of his dreams and the fantasies he was able to induce. This was the time he called his “Confrontation with the Unconscious,” and to which he returned again and again in the following years, reshaping and reworking his original experiences and generating concepts out of which Jungian psychology was born.
Jung’s Red Book is completely hand-written and brilliantly illustrated. It looks like a manuscript out of the Middle Ages.” (IDEAS webpage)
TED TALK with BRENE BROWN on VULNERABILITY
Below is the link to a TED talk, in which Brene Brown, the presenter discusses the value of vulnerability. In an engaging and sometimes very funny presentation, Breen suggests that vulnerability is the key to living wholeheartedy.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
ONLINE RADIO SHOW with IFS THERAPISTS
Below is a link to an online radio show devoted to topics that are difficult to discuss. While the show covers topics from life threatening illness, parenting, rape, and eating disorders, this link will take you to topics covered with Internal Family Systems Therapy in which therapists talk intimately of their own issues (for instance divorce, eating disorders) and how they worked with the fears and resistances of parts of their inner system.
http://safespaceradio.com/category/internal-family-systems-therapy/
Reviews of the film, A DANGEROUS METHOD:
one by Lloyd I. Sederere, the Medical Director of the New York State Office of Mental Health:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lloyd-i-sederer-md/a-dangerous-method-freud-jung_b_1119401.html?ref=arts&ir=Arts
Jon Kabat-Zinn leads a session on Mindfulness at Google:
