FROM MY FILES FRIDAY I’ll be speaking in Iowa in a few months and also moderating a Minds on the Edge panel. I’ll present a scenario about a college student in the midst of a psychotic break. What would happen to that student in Iowa? Panel members generally include a parent, consumer, law enforcement officer, judge, psychiatrist and mental health provider.
This format was used effectively in the Minds on the Edge telecast shown on PBS in October 2009. In this January 2010 blog, I gave readers peek at how the program evolved. Sadly, PBS hasn’t aired Minds on the Edge for several years. That’s unfortunate because the issues raised by the show are still pertinent.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF MINDS ON THE EDGE
Not long after CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, was published, I received a telephone call from Arthur Singer who invited me to lunch in Manhattan.