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WHAT: A discussion about mental and addiction health issues – from a political perspective. WHO: Amanda Fritz, Portland City Commissioner and Jeff Cogen, Multnomah County Commission Chair WHEN: December 13, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 PM Join this event on Facebook Download a poster for this event. WHERE: Kempton Hall, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th […]
From The Lund Report, November 30, 2011 The critical factor is increasing the availability of different types of residential facilities, according to Mary Claire Buckley When legislators approved the Psychiatric Security Review Board’s (PSRB) budget earlier this year, they attached a string — the board needed to start thinking about ways to move patients out […]
From the Seaside Signal, November 29, 2011 NOTE: Supporters of the Mental Health Association of Portland believe the law is the most expensive and least effective intervention for mental illness, and financial diversions from mental health treatment to police, courts, jails and prisons is a form of government corruption. Seaside Police Chief Bob Gross is […]
Dr. Albert Ellis, 1913 – 2007, a psychologist and teacher, crank and unrelenting advocate for mental health, was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century; a true psych revolutionary. The video below is a typical mid-seventies staging of a psychotherapeutic intervention, first called ‘Rational Therapy’ and later, after ‘Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy’ […]
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