This special broadcast event is The Infinite Mind's third annual examination of the state of the nation's mental health care system, taped before a live audience. Join host Dr. Fred Goodwin and guests actress Carrie Fisher ("Star Wars," "When Harry Met Sally," "Hannah and her Sisters"), who reads from and discusses her new novel, "The Best Awful," a sequel to "Postcards from the Edge; and the casts of the smash Broadway hits Avenue Q (2004 Tony Award for "Best Musical") and Wicked (10 Tony nominations) perform as part of "The Musical Mind on Broadway. John Hockenberry offers a live commentary.
The program also features leading mental health policymakers and scientists on new federal efforts to transform the nation's mental health care system and cutting-edge research on bipolar disorder. Guests include A. Kathryn Power, the newly-appointed Director of the U.S. Center for Mental Health Services, Robert Post, M.D., Director of the Biological Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health; Dominic Lam, Ph.D., of the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, who has pioneered research into the use of cognitive techniques to assist patients in identifying the early signs of bipolar disorder; and Stephan Heckers, M.D., director of the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.
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