Themes from the personal to the political permeate the research of Dr. Brenda Major: from her groundbreaking work on issues of mental health and emotional responses to abortion, to her early research on gender and the psychology of non-reciprocal touch between people, to her more recent studies on stigma relating to ethnicity, culture, and body-weight. … Continue reading The Empowered Dr. Brenda Major
Tag: Mental health
Dr. Anthony Jorm and a Quest for Global Literacy with Mental Health
Paraphrasing from Dr. Tony Jorm, I'll make a prediction. You know someone who is suffering from a mental illness. Each year close to 20% of adults will experience a mental health issue that might include anxiety, a drug problem, clinical depression, an eating disorder, schizophrenia, dementia -- and quite possibly more than one. Despite the widespread … Continue reading Dr. Anthony Jorm and a Quest for Global Literacy with Mental Health
Dr. Richard Bryant Gets it Done
Dr. Richard Bryant is the one to call when you need to understand the impact of a soul-taxing, high-stress, life-on-the-line kind of situation. He's gone on the front line of wildfires with the men and women fighting it, he's worked with emergency medical teams, he's met with refugees at camps and spoken with them as … Continue reading Dr. Richard Bryant Gets it Done