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n this episode, we hear two more moving tales of recovery from mental illness. First, Caris Corfman is an actress who lost her short-term memory after a brain operation in 1993. Like the character in the film “Memento,” she can only hold on to new memories for about five minutes before they slip away. But, she says, in spite of her disability, the show must go on. She and her father join The Infinite Mind’s Emily Fisher to talk about her remarkable new one-woman play, “Caris’ Peace,” as well as her life offstage.
In our second half, Judge Sol Wachtler, former head of the New York State Court of Appeals, joins The Infinite Mind’s Dr. Peter Kramer for a rare, in-depth interview. In the early 1990s, Judge Wachtler was on the fast track to the highest levels of public power. But in private, he was battling bipolar disorder, secretly seeing doctors who prescribed the wrong medications and made him even sicker. Suddenly, the nation learned his secret. In 1992 he was arrested for sending threatening letters to his former mistress and imprisoned for 11 months. Today, he says, he has rebuilt a new life for himself as a mental health advocate -- and he’s come to terms with his old one.
