Last night eight Democratic presidential hopefuls met onstage in the first debate of the 2008 campaign. We’ll play excerpts, get insider reaction, and take your calls. Also: a psychotherapist talks about the medicalization of depression and his experience in a clinical trial.
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Dems Debate
Donna Brazile, senior Democratic strategist and former campaign manager for Al Gore, Gerson Borrero, columnist at El Diario La Prensa, Hank Sheinkopf, New York-based political consultant, and Arianna Huffington, editor of HuffingtonPost.com, react to the first Democratic debate for the 2008 presidential election.
When Being Blue Leads to Seeing Green
Antidepressants are a global, multi-billion dollar a year industry. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg learned this first-hand when he enrolled himself in a clinical trial--and was told that according to the admissions criteria he had major depression. He wrote about his experiences in the May Harper's Magazine.
Film Study
Sydney Meeks, president of the Tribeca Film Institute, Eva Duarte, Tribeca Film Fellow, age 19, attending City-As-School, and James Duarte, Tribeca Film Fellow, age 16, attending Theater Arts Production Company Middle/High School, talk about the Tribeca Film Fellows Program, which gives a group of New York City ...
Required Reading: April 27, 2007
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US Wants to Limit Guantanamo Detainees' Access to Lawyers (Washington Post)
Tribeca Film Fellows
Tribeca Film Fellows Eva Duarte and James Duarte, along with Sydney Meeks, president of the Tribeca Film Institute discussed the film ...
Gary Greenberg
Psychotherapist and author Gary Greenberg appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss his Harper's cover story, "Manufacturing Depression" on April 27, ...
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