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The
ALTERNATIVE MENTAL HEALTH NEWS
A monthly newsletter brought to
you by
AlternativeMentalHealth.com and Safe Harbor, a nonprofit
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Issue 51, October
2004 |
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The Editors |
Dan Stradford,
Editor
Alan Graham, Assistant Editor
Gloria McTaggart, Assistant Editor
SafeHarborProj@aol.com
www.Alternative
MentalHealth.com
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Safe Harbor was
founded in 1998 in the wake of growing public dissatisfaction
with the unwanted effects of orthodox psychiatric treatments
such as medication and shock therapy. Seeking to satisfy the
desire for safer, more effective treatments, Safe Harbor is
dedicated to educating the public, the medical profession, and
government officials on research and treatments that,
minimally, do no harm and, optimally, cure the causes of
severe mental symptoms. Our primary thrust is education on the
medical causes of severe mental symptoms and the use of
nutritional and other natural treatments.
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About
Alternative
MentalHealth.com |
ALTERNATIVE
MENTALHEALTH.COM IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST WEB SITE DEVOTED
exclusively to alternative mental health treatments. It
includes a directory of over 240 physicians, nutritionists,
experts, organizations, and facilities around the U.S. that
offer or promote safe, alternative treatments for severe
mental symptoms. Many of the physicians listed do in-depth
examinations to find the physical causes behind mental
problems.
Also included on the site is an array of articles on topics
ranging from the medical causes of schizophrenia to the
effects of toxic metals on mental health.
Special
AlternativeMentalHealth.com T-shirts and bumper stickers
are available at our online store.
A bookstore page lists top books that cover many areas of
alternative treatments with titles like Natural Healing for
Schizophrenia and Other Common Mental Disorders and No More
Ritalin.
AlternativeMentalHealth.com has been created to educate
the public, practitioners, and government officials on the
medical conditions that create "mental illness" and the many
safe resources available for addressing and often curing
severe mental symptoms.
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WE WELCOME YOUR
DONATIONS. AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, SAFE HARBOR IS
SUPPORTED SOLELY THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE PUBLIC.
DONATIONS CAN BE MADE ONLINE AT OUR WEB SITE OR MAILED TO
THE ABOVE ADDRESS. WE ALSO ACCEPT VISA/MASTERCARD BY PHONE.
THANK YOU. |
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Editor's Comment |
A common theme of
this month's issues is CHANGE. The mental health field is
CHANGING.
Can you imagine that we are seeing the day when major medical
journal editors are claiming they won't publish only favorable
drug studies?
Or that the American Psychiatric Association has a group
within it dedicated to educating members about complementary
and alternative treatments?
Or that England's Royal College of General Practitioners would
publicly denounce pharmaceutical firms for pushing drug sales
for people who are not really in need of medication?
These things and MORE are happening and the movement is
snowballing. Safe Harbor would like to take some of the
credit, but honestly, this is the result of the work of
millions of groups and people across the planet who are
insisting on greater health for themselves and their loved
ones.
The mental health field is traditionally the last to catch up
with scientific and social advance, unfortunately, but despite
that handicap, change is still happening rapidly within
psychiatry.
These are historic times and the staff and volunteers of Safe
Harbor are happy to play whatever small role we have in them.
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Announcements |
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SAFE HARBOR SEEKS DONOR TO
COVER NEWSLETTER COSTS |
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In our fifth year now
with our popular newsletter that you are now reading, Safe
Harbor has been indebted to one of its board members for
providing the funding to allow us to distribute our
newsletter at no cost to the public.
Unfortunately, that funding will stop at the end of 2004.
We are currently in need of $50 per month (or $600
annually) to support the continued distribution of the
newsletter. Donors can provide all or part of the support.
It can be taken monthly from a credit card or paid by
check etc.
We hear regularly from readers grateful for the many
helpful tips they find in the Alternative Mental Health
News. This is a great cause! Please support it!
Donors can email Wendy at
wendy@alternativementalhealth.com or they can call the
Safe Harbor office at (323) 257-7338.
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SAFE HARBOR SEEKS SOMEONE TO
RUN NEW YORK CHAPTER |
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Safe Harbor NY, a growing
group that has been in operation for a year and a half,
needs a new president.
This person will coordinate the alternative mental health
workshop series and support groups, continue partnerships
with community organizations and outpatient psychiatric
clinics, and provide telephone and email referral
information for individuals contacting Safe Harbor NY.
The president is responsible for either supporting or
finding funding to cover administrative costs, including
phone, PO Box, and space rental fees that are not covered
by donations.
This is a volunteer position that will start on January 1,
2005. This is an amazing group that is just getting
started. Help lead it into its next chapter.
If you are interested in volunteering for this position or
to help out the new leadership either with time or
funding, please contact Dan at
SafeHarborProj@aol.com.
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BRITISH PSYCHIATRISTS SET UP
"SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH" |
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Professor of Primary
Care, Dr André Tylee, from London's Institute of
Psychiatry, has set up a "special interest group on
nutrition and mental health," open to doctors and
psychiatrists.
At the first meeting, scheduled for November 12 in London,
Professor Malcolm Peet will discuss his work on omega
fats. The group will then explore possibilities for future
research, priorities and funding sources. The possibility
of establishing a group within organizations such as the
Royal College of Psychiatry will also be considered.
Any UK-based doctors or psychiatrists who wish to attend
are invited to register at
www.mentalhealthproject.com.
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Book Review:
Teaching The Restless
By, Chris Mercogliano |
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The subtitle of
Mercogliano's book tells it all: "One School's Remarkable
No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed."
The author challenges head-on the notion that some children
need to be medicated to go to school. Instead, he demonstrates
that the adults around such children can make a lot of
progress using common-sense approaches that are not focused on
making the child fit in.
He walks us through a number of cases of children who have
attended his school (the "Free School"). We see how simple
but firm discipline combined with treating each kid as an
individual brings results for these children so that drugs are
not needed. Mercogliano clearly sees that "Ritalin kids," as
he calls special children, are not so much in need of drugs,
but they are in need of sensible, caring adults who can give
guidance, set examples, and use creative reasoning to bring
out the best in them.
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British Doctors
Denounce Drug Firms' "Disease Mongering" Tactics |
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The Royal College
of General Practitioners has accused pharmaceutical companies
of
"disease-mongering" as a marketing tactic.
By overplaying the dangers of mild depression, slightly raised
blood pressure, and the like, drug firms encourage unnecessary
prescribing of costly drugs, bringing the National Health
Service to the brink of collapse, the doctors' group told a
parliamentary inquiry.
Dr. Maureen Baker, the college's honorary secretary, wants the
Commons health inquiry to investigate the companies'
practices.
"It would be fruitful to look into the increase in
disease-mongering by them," she told The Sunday Telegraph. "It
is very much in the interest of the pharmaceutical industry to
draw a line that includes as large a population as possible
within the 'ill' category. The bigger this group is, the more
drugs they can sell. If current trends continue, publicly
funded health-care systems will be at risk of financial
collapse with huge cost to society as a whole."
The college lists hypertension, high cholesterol,
osteoporosis, anxiety and depression as examples of common
conditions that, in mild forms, are often inappropriately
treated with drugs.
Richard Ley, a spokesman for the Association of the British
Pharmaceutical Industry, said: "It seems odd for this
criticism to come from the Royal College of all organizations,
because a decision on when and how to treat a patient is the
doctor's."
Such decisions, however, are based on treatment guidelines
issued by bodies of specialist doctors. All too often such
panels are heavily subsidized by pharmaceutical money, Dr.
Baker pointed out.
It was recently divulged that three senior members of the
government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization
have received "industrial support" from Aventis Pasteur and
Merck Sharp & Dome, manufacturers of a new 5-in-1 baby vaccine
that the committee recommended.
Some observers are also concerned about "hard-sell" tactics
applied to general practice. Last year, a survey of 1,000 GPs
published in the British Medical Journal found that those who
saw drug company representatives at least once a week were
more likely to prescribe drugs that were not needed.
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APA
Establishes Caucus On Alternative Mental Care |
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An official
satellite activity at the American Psychiatric Association's
annual meeting in May 2004 was an organizing meeting of the
Caucus On Complementary, Alternative And Integrative
Approaches In Mental Health Care.
Twenty-eight psychiatrists convened, bringing expertise in
such diverse specialties as massage therapy, yoga, prayer,
dietary supplements, orthomolecular approaches, and
traditional Chinese medicine. Most are Board-certified
clinical psychiatrists, and some are full-time researchers at
Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Duke, et al.
Following informal introductions, a draft charter was reviewed
and initial goals were discussed. The central objective of the
Caucus is to give physicians and mental health professionals
access to accurate, clinically relevant information on safe
and effective non-conventional treatments.
Three broad goals were discussed:
1. Educating mental health professionals about safe,
evidence-based uses of complementary and
alternative treatments in mental health care.
2. Surveying psychiatrists' beliefs and practices with respect
to alternative treatments.
3. Setting research priorities.
The first goal would be addressed with courses and symposia at
future APA regional and national meetings. Courses on Western
herbal medicines and natural supplements have been well
received in recent years.
The importance of developing evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines for the use of CAM or integrative approaches was
discussed.
The APA has established an email forum in which Caucus members
can exchange perspectives on their fields of interest. A new
website,
www.apacam.org, is now available to clinical and research
psychiatrists to help them evaluate alternative treatments.
Michael Cohen, JD, MBA, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Center for Integrative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, has
agreed to help the Caucus draw up legal guidelines for
psychiatrists using or recommending alternative treatments.
Psychiatrists, whether APA members or not, are invited to
visit
www.apacam.org, complete a brief survey, and register to
participate in the Caucus.
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Fatty Acid
Found In Cold-Water Fish May Arrest Alzheimer's |
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A diet rich in
the omega-3 fatty acid DHA, found in salmon, halibut, and
other cold-water fish, has been found to protect animal brains
from the damage associated with Alzheimer's disease, says a
new study published in the September 2 issue of Neuron.
The research was based on human studies of risk factors for
Alzheimer's disease, said study author Greg Cole, a professor
of medicine and neurology at UCLA's David Geffen School of
Medicine.
Many studies have linked Alzheimer's to low intake of DHA
(docosahexaenoic acid), Cole said. A constant supply of DHA is
key to normal human brain function.
Cole's team focused on altering the diet of lab mice once they
were 17 months old, after feeding them a normal diet high in
omega-3 fatty acids during their infancy.
They studied mice bred with genetic mutations that cause the
lesions linked to advanced Alzheimer's, assigning them to one
of three groups. "Group one continued on the diet they had
always gotten," Cole said. "Group two was put on a special
diet with no DHA. Group three's diet had more DHA than the
diet they grew up on."
Three other groups of mice without the genetic mutations,
serving as controls, were given the same three diets as the
genetically altered mice. After five months, the researchers
compared the various groups' brain structure.
The mice with the genetic mutations fed a DHA-deficient diet
had high amounts of Alzheimer's-like brain damage in the
synapses -the chemical connections between nerve cells. "The
[DHA-deficient] diet and the Alzheimer's gene interact to
cause a deficit of DHA in the brains of the animals," Cole
said.
The mice on the DHA-deficient diet with the genetic mutation
had 90 percent more synaptic loss than those with the genetic
mutation fed the DHA-rich diet.
The animals with the genetic mutation whose diets had no DHA
took twice as long to perform on a test of spatial memory,
said study co-author Sally Frautschy, an associate professor
of medicine at UCLA. The test would be roughly equivalent to a
human trying to remember where he parked his car, she
explained.
The study breaks new ground because "it shows the disease
itself depletes our brain of DHA through oxidation, and you
can correct it by putting it back [via a DHA-rich diet],"
Frautschy said. "The study shows that replenishing the DHA can
arrest the development of Alzheimer's, at least in animals."
Added Cole: "We have evidence that DHA works as a risk factor
for Alzheimer's disease from associated studies. We know DHA
is getting oxidized in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. And
it's practically harmless to add it back to your diet" by
eating more fish, taking fish oil capsules, or eating omega-3
enriched eggs.
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Drug Trials Found
Deficient In Safety Emphasis |
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The APA's
American Journal of Psychiatry has published a study showing
the pharmaceutical industry's inattention to safety in the
development of psychotropic drugs.
The EU[European Union]-PSI Project devised the study to
 | "address the lack of readily available evidence for the
efficient management of mental health care by grouping the
evidence and making it available to anyone interested..."
and to
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interventions for a wide range of mental health-related
problems and conditions." |
The authors randomly selected 200 entries from the PsiTri
registry of mental-health-related controlled trials (http://psitri.stakes.fi/index.html).
They narrowed the field to 142 randomized controlled trials,
including 103 drug trials, and analyzed them for adequacy and
relative emphasis on safety issues.
Among drug trials, only 21.4% had adequate reporting of
clinical adverse events, and only 16.5% had adequate reporting
of laboratory-determined toxicity. On average, drug trials
devoted 1/10 of a page in their results sections to safety,
and 58.3% devoted more space to the names and affiliations of
authors than to safety.
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Journals
Insist Drug Manufacturers Register All Trials |
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A dozen editors
of leading medical journals jointly announced in September
that they will refuse to publish drug research sponsored by
pharmaceutical companies unless the studies have been
registered in a public database from the outset.
"When a pharmaceutical company sponsors a clinical trial and
the results turn out not to be in the best financial interests
of the company, it has been our experience these results are
never made public," said Gregory D. Curfman, executive editor
of the New England Journal of Medicine. "They are buried
away."
So far, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the
Annals of Internal Medicine, the Lancet, the New England
Journal of Medicine, and several other international
publications signed the initiative, intended to give
physicians and the public a window on unfavorable studies they
would otherwise never see.
Jeff Trewhitt of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
Association of America said several companies are already
registering clinical trials on a voluntary basis, but
individual companies "may have reservations about divulging
proprietary information in clinical tests that are in very
early phases."
Virtually the same stock phrase was used to explain the
actions of the pharmaceutical companies concealing evidence
that antidepressants prescribed to children are no more
effective than sugar pills, and that they increase the risk of
suicide attempts and suicidal ideation.
The federal Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of
1997 established a database at
www.ClinicalTrials.gov and required companies to register
trials, but there has been no enforcement.
Last year, British authorities warned doctors not to prescribe
a number of antidepressants to children, but Prozac was not on
the list. The FDA declined to take a similar step,
commissioning a further study instead. In September, the
author of the new report, FDA scientist Tarek Hammad, told
investigators: "I can no longer say that Prozac is okay for
children."
"It makes no scientific sense that you would find any
significant difference in the effects" of the various SSRI
drugs, said Dr. Steven Hyman, a Harvard psychiatrist and
former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
"All target and bind to the same molecule in the brain" - the
one the body uses to dampen the activity of a mood-altering
brain chemical called serotonin.
In any drug trial for depression, both the diagnosis and the
evidence of recovery are subjective. From 31% to 59% of a
"depressed" sample will feel better the next time you test
them, as placebo results in the suppressed trials have shown.
Christine Laine, senior deputy editor of the Annals of
Internal Medicine, said the registration requirement would
apply to any trial begun after July 1, 2005. For trials
already in progress, she said, companies would have to
register them before seeking publication.
The editors hope that preserving the opportunity to publish a
positive study in a prominent journal, which can greatly boost
the visibility of a new drug, will be enough incentive for
most companies to register their studies. If not, they would
forgo favorable publicity as well - a classic case of throwing
the baby out with the bath water.
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Rheumatic
Fever and "OC Spectrum Disorder" Linked |
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Researchers have
found that rheumatic fever may increase the risk of
"obsessive-compulsive disorder" (OCD), tic disorders, and
"body dysmorphic disorder" (BDD - exaggerated concern about
physical appearance), according to a study recently published
in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Ana Hounie (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) and colleagues
say that their findings "reinforce the idea that OC spectrum
disorders may share common underlying pathophysiologic
mechanisms and vulnerability factors with RF, or that RF could
trigger central nervous system late manifestations such as OC
spectrum disorders."
Rheumatic fever (RF) can damage multiple organ systems,
including the central nervous system. This is characterized by
the movement disorder known as Sydenham's chorea.
Previous research has indicated higher frequencies of OCD and
tic disorders in patients with RF. Hounie et al assessed for
OC spectrum disorders in 59 outpatients with non-acute RF.
The age-corrected rate of OC spectrum disorders combined was
eight times higher in RF patients than in controls, 20.89% as
compared to 2.56%.
"If these findings are confirmed, clinicians should be careful
to investigate and recognize psychiatric symptoms in RF
patients, allowing early diagnosis and treatment when
necessary," the authors concluded.
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Issue 49, August 2004 |
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The Editors |
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Dan
Stradford, Editor
Alan Graham, Assistant Editor
Gloria McTaggart, Assistant Editor
SafeHarborProj@aol.com
www.Alternative
MentalHealth.com
Feedback: We'd like to hear your comments and views. Please forward
them to the e-mail address above. Contact information is below. |
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Subscriptions |
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Did someone forward this ezine to you? You can SUBSCRIBE and receive
your own copy of the Alternative Mental Health News directly.
Use the sign-up form at
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or contact us in any of the ways listed in this newsletter.
Complete UNSUBSCRIBING information is located at the end of this
e-mail.
All
PAST ISSUES
of the Alternative Mental Heath News are available at
Alternative
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About Safe Harbor |
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Safe Harbor was founded in 1998 in the wake of growing public
dissatisfaction with the unwanted effects of orthodox psychiatric
treatments such as medication and shock therapy. Seeking to satisfy
the desire for safer, more effective treatments, Safe Harbor is
dedicated to educating the public, the medical profession, and
government officials on research and treatments that, minimally, do no
harm and, optimally, cure the causes of severe mental symptoms. Our
primary thrust is education on the medical causes of severe mental
symptoms and the use of nutritional and other natural treatments. |
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About Alternative
MentalHealth.com |
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ALTERNATIVE
MENTALHEALTH.COM IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST WEB SITE DEVOTED
exclusively to alternative mental health treatments. It includes a
directory of over 240 physicians, nutritionists, experts,
organizations, and facilities around the U.S. that offer or promote
safe, alternative treatments for severe mental symptoms. Many of the
physicians listed do in-depth examinations to find the physical causes
behind mental problems.
Also included on the site is an array of articles on topics ranging
from the medical causes of schizophrenia to the effects of toxic
metals on mental health.
Special AlternativeMentalHealth.com T-shirts and bumper stickers are
available at our online store.
A
bookstore page lists top books that cover many areas of alternative
treatments with titles like Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and
Other Common Mental Disorders and No More Ritalin.
AlternativeMentalHealth.com has been created to educate the public,
practitioners, and government officials on the medical conditions that
create "mental illness" and the many safe resources available for
addressing and often curing severe mental symptoms.
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WE WELCOME YOUR DONATIONS. AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, SAFE HARBOR
IS SUPPORTED SOLELY THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF THE PUBLIC. DONATIONS
CAN BE MADE ONLINE AT OUR WEB SITE OR MAILED TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS.
WE ALSO ACCEPT VISA/MASTERCARD BY PHONE. THANK YOU. |
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Editor's Comment |
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(My thanks to
readers who caught my spelling error in last month's issue in the
phrase "as ye sow, so shall ye also reap" - I shall not let it happen
again!)
Remarkably, this issue starts our 5th year of bringing you the AMH
News. The small newsletter we started is now so full of announcements
and news items that we can scarcely contain them all.
Through the hard work and support of so many, Safe Harbor now has
events going across the planet the next three months.
Would you like to help? Like all other organizations, Safe Harbor
needs funding to operate. We need it to hire staff, pay our bills, and
fund the many events we do.
Once a year Safe Harbor actively engages in fundraising so that we can
support this important work. That time is now. Our big event is
October 7, as you see below. A lot of people, including Dr. Laura
Schlessinger, are donating their time and efforts to make this event a
success to bring us much-needed funds.
You can help by buying your tickets early. If you can't come, you can
donate tickets or donate to our general funds or to help us underwrite
the event. Or you can connect us with a foundation that may want to
help underwrite the event or support our work.
If you can help us with the finances, I assure you that we will
provide the heart, passion, and hard work so that, together, we can
continue to carry out our motto of "changing lives every day." |
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Announcements |
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DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER, DR. DORIS RAPP
HEADLINE SAFE HARBOR EVENT, OCT. 7 |
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Mark your
calendar for October 7, Safe Harbor's remarkable Fourth Annual
Awards Benefit - this year featuring two best selling authors who
are legends in their fields.
Dr.
Doris Rapp, author of the blockbuster books Is This Your Child?
and Is This Your Child's World? plus the recent Our Toxic World,
is the world's leading spokesperson on how allergies affect child
behavior. Her work on Donahue, Oprah, and through lectures around
the world has dramatically impacted a generation of children. One
television appearance alone prompted over 100,000 letters from
viewers. Safe Harbor is privileged to honor Dr. Rapp with our
2004 Lighthouse Award, presented annually to men and women who
benefit humanity by forwarding truly safe and effective mental
health treatments.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, America's top radio therapist with over 10
million weekly listeners, has generously agreed to donate her time
as our keynote speaker. Dr. Laura finds common ground with Safe
Harbor as a champion of children, a public voice encouraging the
use of psychiatric drugs only as a last resort, and a promoter of
the philosophy that full recovery comes from taking responsibility
for one's health and one's life. Dr. Laura, author of seven New
York Times bestsellers, including her recent mega-hit The Proper
Care and Feeding of Husbands, will answer questions from the
audience.
Also honored will be Melvyn Werbach, M.D., renowned nutritional
psychiatrist and editor of numerous internationally popular texts
such as Nutritional Influences on Illness and Nutritional
Influences on Mental Illness.
Ticket prices: $95 in advance; $125 at the door
Special seating at Dr. Laura's or Dr. Rapp's table: $500
SEATING IS LIMITED - THIS EVENT IS GENERATING A LOT OF BUZZ SO
BOOK EARLY!
Where: Glendale Hilton, 100 W. Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale,
California
When: 7:30 PM, Thursday, October 7.
Prizes, including jewelry made by Dr. Laura, will be raffled off.
Tickets can be purchased at the Safe Harbor office: (323) 257-7338
or mail checks to Safe Harbor, 1718 Colorado Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
90041
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SAFE HARBOR LA OFFICE SEEKS VOLUNTEERS |
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Due to the rapid
expansion of Safe Harbor internationally, the main headquarters is
seeking volunteers who can help in the Los Angeles office with the
day-to-day activities. Schedules can be flexible but day help is
needed. The office is located in the Eagle Rock section of Los
Angeles between Glendale and Pasadena. Contact: (323) 257-7338 or
safeharborproj@aol.com
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6-WEEK NUTRITIONAL MENTAL HEALTH CLASS 9/25-10/30,
CHINO, CALIFORNIA |
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THE MIND-BODY
CONNECTION
Physical Causes Underlying Mental Disorders
LEARN THE SCIENCE BEHIND NUTRITIONAL TREATMENTS
FOR MENTAL DISORDERS
...in a series of Saturday morning workshops with,
Nancy Mullan, MD - Burbank psychiatrist
Stu Shipko, MD -Pasadena psychiatrist
Prof. James Croxton - Educator, physiological psychology
Dan Stradford - Pres., Safe Harbor
Week 1: Stress and Neurological Structures and Processes
Week 2: Nutritional Factors Relative to Brain Structure and
Function
Week 3: Hormonal Issues, Cerebral Allergies, and Food Intolerances
Week 4: How Pollutants and Toxins Affect Brain Function
Week 5: Medical Causes of Mental Disorders
Week 6: Resources for Alternative Mental Health Care
PLUS hear the personal stories of people who have recovered from
mental disorders through nutrition, diet changes, and other
natural means
Presented by NAMI Chino Valley - formerly NAMI Chino Hills -
(National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)in partnership with Safe
Harbor, the nation's leading nonprofit agency for
non-pharmaceutical mental health education.
Saturdays - Sep. 25 through Oct. 30, 2004
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
6251 Schaefer Ave., Unit G
Chino, California
Fee (all six weeks): $38
Two attendees together: $58
Each additional family member: $10
Seating is limited so register early!
Phone : NAMI (909) 923 7517 or Safe Harbor (323) 257-7338
Online:
www.alternativementalhealth.com
Mail: Check payable to "Safe Harbor" or "NAMI Chino Valley",
send to Safe Harbor, 1718 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
VISA, MasterCard, AMEX accepted.
For more information contact
www.alternativementalhealth.com
or call the above numbers
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SAFE HARBOR NY TALK, AUGUST 23:
INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRIST STEPHAN QUENTZL |
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Dr. Stephan
Quentzl will provide an overview of complementary approaches for
dealing with mental health symptoms with an emphasis on self-care.
He will discuss nutrition, nutriceuticals, and exercise as well as
effective interaction with health care professionals, especially
related to the integration of complementary techniques. He will
also cover lifestyle issues, such as time management, and their
effect on mental health.
WHEN: Monday, August 23rd from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
(Note: Please do not arrive earlier than 6:15. We do not
technically have
the space until 6:30.)
WHERE: The Continuum Center for Health and Healing, an initiative
of Beth Israel Medical Center, located at 245 Fifth Avenue
(between 27th and 28th Streets), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10016.
The closest subways: N, R to 28th St. or the 6 to 28th St.
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