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Author, Mental Health Advocate Kay Redfield Jamison to Speak at MCC


On Wednesday, March 3 at noon and 7 p.m., Kay Redfield Jamison, an international authority and researcher of mood disorders who is also the author of The New York Times bestseller An Unquiet Mind, will give two presentations at MCC.  Both presentations will be held in the Brighton Campus Theatre, Bldg. 4.

In 1995, Jamison, an American psychologist and science writer, made public her struggles with manic depression first in a Washington Post article and again in her subsequent book. Currently professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Jamison is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association’s William Styron Award, the American Suicide Foundation Research Award and the Community Mental Health Leadership Award. She is also a 2001 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. Her national bestseller, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide was named a “Notable Book of 1999” by The New York Times. 

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets, free with MCC I.D, will be required for admission. They are available at the Campus Center Information and Services Desk (Bldg 3) and Damon City Campus bookstore, 228 East Main St.

Janet Ekis
Public Affairs
02/03/2004