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Highly Recommended Resources
If you are suicidal, please call this number and talk to someone who cares and can help. The National Hotline (which links callers to local crisis centers) is: 1-800-SUICIDE
Websites (alphabetically):
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
The Bruce Hedges Center
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University Lyme Disease Research Studies
Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia University TeenScreen program
Covenant House or 1-800-999-9999 for youth who need immediate help and have nowhere else to turn.
Department of Neuroscience
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association
Dr. John Grohl's Psych Central
Dr. Terman's Heathology videocast
Fountain House
International Center for Clubhouse Development
National Institute of Mental Health
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association
National Foundation for Depressive Illness, Inc.
National Mental Health Association
New York-Presbyterian Department of Psychiatry
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Postpartum Support International
SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center
Washington Heights Community Service
Weill Medical College of Cornell University Department of Psychiatry
Seasonal Affective Disorder information www.cet.org; www.lightandions.org
Additional Reading:
Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome, by Nancy C. Andreasen, Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Guide to Mental Health by Frederic I. Kass, John Oldham and Herbert Pardes, Henry Holt & Company, 1995
Comprehensive Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy; by MM Weissman, J. Markowitz and GL Klerman, Perseus Publishing, 2000.
Electroshock; by Max Fink, M.D., Oxford University Press, 1999
Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy, by Jan Otto-Ottosson and Max Fink, Brunner-Routledge, 2004
Infanticide: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill; by Margaret Spinelli, M.D., American Psychiatric Publishing, 2002
Late Life Depression by Steven P. Roose, Oxford University Press, 2004
Lyme Disease Update: Science, Policy, & Law; by Marcus A. Cohen with Foreward by Brian Fallon; published by the Lyme Disease Association, 2004, available online at: www.LymeDiseaseAssociation.org.
Understanding Depression: A Complete Guide to Its Diagnosis and Treatment; by Donald F. Klein, Paul H. Wender; New York, Guilford Press, 1998.
Winter Blues: Seasonal Affective Disorder: What It Is and How to Overcome It; by Norman E. Rosenthal. New York, Guilford Press, 1998 (2005 version pending).
Special thanks to: Mike Wallace, Co-Editor of 60 Minutes; Dr. Herbert Pardes, CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Rosalind Whitehead, a leading figure and advocate in the US healthcare field; Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Chairman of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry; Dr. Jack Barchas, Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, New York Weill Cornell Medical Center; Dr. Frederic Kass, Medical Director, Department of Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center; and their team of experts who contributed so much expertise to this project. Special thanks also to Margaret Downs, a strategic business consultant, who finds time to volunteer for Fountain House and who also made an invaluable contribution.
For lending their expertise to the Postpartum Depression project, CBS Cares would also like to thank: Susan Stone, President of Postpartum Support International; Dr. Myrna Weissman, Chief, Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology, NYS Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center; Dr. Margaret Spinelli, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director of Maternal Mental Health Program, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Dr. Diane Wulfsohn, Clinical Psychologist, Northside Hospital, Atlanta; and Edurne Chopeitia, Medical Interpreter, Northside Hospital, Atlanta.
This section is dedicated to: Barbara, Marguerite, Jesse and Kathy, all of whose personal stories and courageous battles against Depression helped inspire CBS Cares to embrace this cause.
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