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Knowles said he hopes that the guide will clarify these legal issues, which he said may be preventing schools from making comprehensive changes to their mental health programs...
Richard D. Kadison, the chief of mental health at Harvard University Health Services, said yesterday that he is familiar with the work of the Jed Foundation, and echoed the organization’s emphasis on holistic treatment of student distress issues to prevent suicide and student violence...
...said that Harvard looks at each case individually—especially suicide cases, which can involve a wide range of circumstances—and that the University has also taken steps to normalize mental health disorders and reduce the stigma surrounding them on campus...
...research was hindered by a small sample size, the need to rely on second-hand interpretations of patients' problems, and the fact that the medical community's knowledge of schizophrenia has changed over the past century - their observations are enough to give us pause. While the underlying causes of mental illness have remained the same, the delusions it produces are a distorted, funhouse mirror-type look into our own world. History is almost never viewed through the eyes of the insane, especially not the locked-up, straight-jacketed kind that Big Nurse just wants to subdue. But the mentally...
...speech, and you have pretty much the senior class of the Washington press corps all lined up. You know they all came to see if he was going to drop dead. He didn't bitch, he didn't moan. There were no recriminations. There was nothing except a mental and emotional confidence--this is what I set out to do, and I will do this, and if I fail I fail, but no one will tell me I failed until I have. That must be kind of a glimpse of a kind of emotional toughness that got him through Vietnam...