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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health - Thomas Insel, MD and David Schreiber, MD

As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, MD was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, “Our house is on fire and you’re telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?” Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was: not nearly enough. The gargantuan American mental health industry was not healing millions who were desperately in need. He left his position atop the mental health research world to investigate all that was broken—and what a better path to mental health might look like.

In the United States, we have treatments that work, but our system fails at every stage to deliver care well. Even before COVID, mental illness was claiming a life every eleven minutes by suicide. Quality of care varies widely, and much of the field lacks accountability. We focus on drug therapies for symptom reduction rather than on plans for long-term recovery. Care is often unaffordable and unavailable, particularly for those who need it most and are homeless or incarcerated. But Dr. Insel also found that we have approaches that work, both in the U.S. and globally. Mental illnesses are medical problems, but the cures for the crisis are not just medical, but social. This path to healing, built upon what he calls the three Ps (people, place, and purpose), is more straightforward than we might imagine.

Dr. Insel will be in conversation with David Schrieber, MD, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and CEO and co-founder of Compass Health Center and Compass Virtual.

BOOK GIVEAWAY! To enter the random drawing for a copy of HEALING, your address and phone number are REQUIRED - this info will NOT be shared. Indicate if you will pick up your book at The Book Stall in Winnetka, IL. Books will be shipped or available for pick-up within 2 weeks of the event. We will notify winners via email when books are ready.

May 19, 2022 07:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)