Here’s what you’re doing on Thursday night: coming to 1500 Sansom St. at 7pm to have a discussion about “Mad in America,” Robert Whitaker’s book about psychiatry. If you haven’t read the book, come anyway. We’ll use the book as a jumping off point, but all opinions are welcome.
It’ll be fun!
liz | 2:52 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
I think it is a great idea and I would love to come but, I will be away.
I am sure you’ve thought about this already, but could someone take notes at the meeting and post them on your blog for those of us who can’t attend?
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