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North Star Guardians|Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Episode
Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians interviews Professor Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation published by Pantheon.
Charles Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay in his first book, Songs from the Black Chair, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in the The Washington Post, The New York Times and Scientific American Mind, among other publications, and on NPR. He is a senior administrator at The Connection, an innovative social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He lives in Connecticut with his family. Visit his website .
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[ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:21:00 GMT ]
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