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Some audio resources on Depression, etc...

Posted by dj on July 9, 2000, at 11:50:18

For those of you who have access to a radio that will alow you to tap into CBC's (Canadian Broadcasting Co.)broadcasts (and people throughout the U.S. do, as far away as California) the program on mental health, noted below, is being re-run this week in the mornings.

More info. on that at:
http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/

For those who cannot access this, or not at that time, but are interested in these broadcasts, info. at the end on how you can acquire these tapes. I've heard bit and pieces of these broadcasts and like many CBC-Radio broadcasts they are very good.

First however, today we have an 11 a.m. program this a.m. which I believe will potentially offer some interesting insights info mind-body challenges:

SOME OF THE BEST MINDS OF OUR TIME with Peter Gzowski airs on CBC Radio One Sundays at 11 a.m. (11:30 a.m. NT) starting July 2, and is repeated Mondays at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT). This 10-part series features Gzowski's third season of fascinating conversations with original and often undiscovered Canadians...

http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/bestminds/guest.html

July 9/10
Churchlands
A boy and a girl grow up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, about twenty miles from each other. They meet as young adults, eventually fall in love and marry. The couple goes on to become two of the world's most respected philosophers of the mind - pioneers in a field called "neurophilosophy." Doctors Patricia and Paul Churchland, have backgrounds not only in philosophy but in neuroscience, physics, mathematics, and psychology, they have written several books, and won numerous awards including the McArthur Foundation "Genius" grant. They are currently at the University of California at San Diego.


And back to the first reference:

http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/features/mind.html

This Morning's
Depths of Despair and Mind Games Series

We are offering the five-part series, Depths of Despair which we broadcast the week of October 18, 1999, on cassette. The series, produced by Karin Wells, looks at depression -- its causes, symptoms and treatment. The tapes are available for $20 total. Please send a cheque or money order to the address listed below. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Here is a rundown of the series topics:

Depths of Despair 1
Depression: It's not in Your Head - It's in your Brain
An interview with neurologist Helen Mayberg. Dr. Mayberg has spent the last l0 years charting what goes on in the brain when someone is depressed. Dr. Helen Mayberg holds the Sandra A Rotman chair in Neuropsychaitry at the Baycrest Centre in Toronto.

For more information about Dr. Mayberg's work see: American Journal of Psychiatry, May 99, Vol.156 pp. 675-682. This article concerns treatment effect and sadness. See also Neuroreport, l997, Vol. 8, pp.1057-1061,re: Cingulet Function in Depression.


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Depths of Despair 2
Shared Care: - Doctor, I don't know what's wrong with me

This program looked at an approach to diagnosing depression and treating it in Hamilton, Ontario, called the "Shared Care Model". Most of us go to our family doctor when we feel ill but family doctors don't always recognize depression or feel comfortable treating it. In Hamilton 90 family physicians now have a therapist on staff and a psychiatrist who comes into the office once every couple of weeks for consultations.

We followed the story of Lori -- a 58-year-old woman who fell apart under the pressures of work - but now, after working with the therapist and seeing the psychiatrist only once - is doing much better. The Canadian Psychiatric Association has launched a program to explore further connections between Family Physicians and Psychiatry.


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Depths of Despair
Mood Fair...What About Medication?

CANMAT - Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments, an affiliation of psychiatrists is going across the country this winter giving educational presentation for doctors on the 22 anti-depressants that are currently on the market.

This episode of the series looked at what patients can realistically expect from medication. The chair of CANMATis Dr. Sidney Kennedy of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. Two patients, Gary Miller and Agnes Vandergnag, talked about the myriad of medications that they have been through.


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Depths of Despair 4
Shock Therapy - ECT

Electro Convulsive Shock Therapy is increasingly used as a treatment for severe depression in Canada. ECT use, outside psychiatric hospitals, increased by about 30% in both BC and Ontario between l994/5 and l997/8.

This program went with a patient through an ECT treatment in Winnipeg. The doctor, head of the ECT program in Winnipeg was Dr. Murray Enns who co-authored the Canadian Psychiatric Association position paper on ECT.

This was then followed by a young woman from Whitehorse - Lise Hale - who went through ECT earlier this year. Her depression lifted but shortly after she realized she had lost about l8 months of memory.


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Depths of Despair 5
Psychotherapy - Let's talk about it


Psychotherapy has changed a good deal in the last decade. The tendency now is toward more "short term" therapies - 16-20 weeks. One of the most widely used is Cognitive Behaviorial Therapy a method designed to give patients the means to deal with life events before they become major depressions.

This program visits the Women's Unit at the Centre for Addiciton and Mental Health" in Toronto and talks to a psychiatrist and her patient about dealing with her depression herself.


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To Order the Mind Games Series:

We are offering the series for $48.00, taxes included. We will accept a cheque or a money order (payable to CBC Radio - This Morning). No credit cards, please. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Here's how to reach us:
By Mail :
This Morning
P.O. Box 500, Station A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1E6



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