Click Here to View: Interview with Nancy Goodman and Arlene Kramer Richards in the COWAP Newsletter.
Author: Tamar Schwartz
Vienna 1934-Munich 1938
The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems, Working Toward Solutions at Austen Riggs
In its Centennial Year, the Austen Riggs Center is convening a conference of national and international experts in the fields of mental health treatment, research, advocacy, and the law titled, “The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems, Working Toward Solutions,”to be held September 21-22, 2019 at Tanglewood’s new Linde Center for Music and Learning in Lenox, MA.
Featured Speakers and Panelists include:
Meiram Bendat, JD, Francine Conway, PhD, Anita Everett, MD, DFAPA, Peter Fonagy, PhD, OBE, FMedSci, FAcSS, FBA, Jeffrey Geller, MD, MPH, Carol Gilligan, PhD, Tom Insel, MD, Harold Kudler, MD, Saul Levin, MD, MPA, FRCP-E, Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Caroline Reynolds, Esq.
along with several Austen Riggs Center clinical staff members
Early registration (save $70) ends on September 1: www.austenriggs.org/centennial-conference
Anorexia not just a psychiatric problem, scientists find
Click Here to Read: Anorexia not just a psychiatric problem, scientists find
Discovery of metabolic causes opens door to new treatments for dangerous eating disorder by Ian Sample on the Guardian website on July 15, 2019.
Black and white photograph of an emaciated woman, aged 17 years, suffering from ‘hysteria’, who refused food on account of anorexia (anorexia nervosa). Front view. St Bartholomew’s Hospital Photographic Society. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Why European Jewish demography? A foundation paper
Click Here to Read: Why European Jewish demography? A foundation paper by L. Daniel Staetsky and Sergio Della Pergola in Jewish Policy Research (JPR), in January 2019.
Map of the % change in the Jewish population by each European country between 1945 and 2010. West_Germany_1956-1990.blank_map_of_Europe_1956-1990. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

