The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems, Working Toward Solutions at Austen Riggs
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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
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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.