PSYCHIATRY AND ARTS SERIES

MEG HUTCHINSON, Singer/Songwriter
March 24, 2011

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SINGING IN THE DARK
An exploration of creativity and madness

Susan McKeown
Grammy Award Winning Irish Vocalist

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Introduction and discussion by J. Raymond DePaulo, M.D. and Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D

For her seventh solo album, Susan McKeown has produced an ambitious and thought-provoking work on the subject of madness, featuring poets writing through the lens of depression, mania and substance abuse. With new music from McKeown, Frank London and Lisa Gutkin, Singing in the Dark explores creativity, suffering and the desire for happiness. The lyrics come from the anonymous poet of the ninth century Gaelic Mad Sweeney, Lord Byron, James Clarence Mangan, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwyneth Lewis and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and there are songs from John Dowland, Chilean activist songwriter Violeta Parra and Leonard Cohen, in a collection of lyrics and music about human experience, imagination and hope. The resulting album, SINGING IN THE DARK, sheds light on the deepest and most beautiful layers of the human condition.

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ASYLUM
Images from the Past, Prelude to the Present

October 26, 2009

A visual presentation of striking photos from a new book by architect and photographer, Christopher Payne, entitled Asylum: In the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Dr. Anita Everett, Director of Community Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center will follow with a discussion of the legacy of the past and its impact on present-day care for the chronically and seriously mental ill.

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GRIEF and DEPRESSION
Disease or the Human Condition?

November 15, 2007

Scottish Poet Douglas Dunn reads from Elegies, Whitbread Book of the Year

Douglas Dunn wrote Elegies after his wife’s death from cancer in 1981. His volume of poetry, described as the finest poetic work on grief since Tennyson’s In Memoriam, was chosen as the Whitbread Book of the Year, one of Britain’s highest literary honors. Dunn, an acclaimed poet, playwright, and frequent contributor to The New Yorker, is Professor of English Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.