mental health care

A former member of Congress is drawing attention to America’s mental health issues. In today’s Congressional Corner, one-time Rhode Island Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy speaks with WAMC’s Ian Pickus.

Dr. Hannah Karpman, Associate Professor at Smith School for Social Work and faculty member at The Shriver Center at Chan Medical School joins us to discuss a new study that shows that many children who go to the ER for a mental health crisis do not get sufficient follow-up care.

Mona Simpson is one of the foremost chroniclers of the American family in our time. Her new novel, “Commitment,” is about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.

The content of this interview may be upsetting for some listeners.Clancy Martin is an acclaimed author, Guggenheim Fellow, and professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University in New Delhi. He is also the survivor of more than ten suicide attempts. In the new book, “How Not to Kill Yourself,” Martin chronicles his multiple suicide attempts. The book is an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone obsessed with self-destruction.

Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “Howl” opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Thirty years later, Ginsberg entrusted a Columbia University medical student with materials not shared with anyone else, including psychiatric records that documented how he and his mother, Naomi Ginsberg, struggled with mental illness.In "Best Minds," psychiatrist, researcher, and scholar Stevan M. Weine, M.D., who was that medical student, examines how Allen Ginsberg took his visions and psychiatric hospitalization, his mother’s devastating illness, confinement, and lobotomy, and the social upheavals of the postwar world and imaginatively transformed them.

New York Congressman Paul Tonko welcomed U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to Albany this morning for a panel discussion about mental health investments.

Beginning in January, evaluations and referrals will be offered 24/7

Governor Phil Scott’s weekly briefing in Montpelier today focused on mental health needs and resources available to Vermonters.

Local providers will do screenings on the third Wednesday in July, August, September

Experts agree that mental health services in this country are lacking.In today’s Congressional Corner, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy tells WAMC’s Alan…