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...most underreported crimes in the U.S., with an estimated 84 percent of women not reporting their rapes to police (The National Women’s Study). Acts of sexual violence often lead to severe psychological and physical trauma in survivors that can manifest itself in a variety of mental and physical health hazards throughout these people’s lives—including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse...
Poussaint, who serves as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at HMS, has been on the cutting edge of the mental health field since the 1960s. A pioneer in the civil rights movement, Poussaint is best known for linking issues of racial inequality with the practice of psychiatry and served as a field medic at two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s demonstration marches through Mississippi...
Poussaint was instrumental in the racial integration of HMS in the 1970s, working together with the dean of HMS and then-Harvard President Derek C. Bok. He has written several groundbreaking books, maintaining throughout his career that widespread racial discrimination in America is one of the leading causes of mental illness among minorities. According to the countless tributes addressed to Poussaint on Saturday, the professor has inspired hundreds of young doctors and psychiatrists who would have otherwise felt alienated in the early days of the medical school’s integration efforts...
...afternoon address, Poussaint focused on nonviolence as a means of promoting mental health and racial harmony, saying that “wars and killing and violence make a mockery of health care...
...down I knew it was going to be really unlikely to get back,” said Suchde of his improbable third game comeback. “I just wanted to get a couple of points so that he didn’t get a mental edge in the fourth and begin to feel confident and I [ended] up winning the game...All those 7 a.m. yogas and five days a week team training has finally paid...