<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release February 19, 2013<br><br><font size="4"><b>Cambridge Forum Discusses “Resilience: From PTSD to Hurricane Sandy”</b></font><br><br>On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, Cambridge Forum hosts psychiatrists <b>Steven Southwick</b> of Yale and <b>Dennis Charney</b> of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York discussing their latest book <b><i>Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges</i></b>. The forum takes place at 7:00 pm at the First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street in Harvard Square. Harvard psychologist Dr. Shelley Carson moderates.<br><br>POWs, 9/11 survivors, and ordinary people facing the death of a loved one, a medical diagnosis, job loss divorce, or another grievous personal loss–how is it that some of the people who survive deeply traumatic experiences are able to bounce back and rebuild their lives? In their latest book, Resilience, Drs. Southwick and Charney identify the building blocks of this ability to overcome adversity and argue that resilience can be learned. Weaving together the insights from their clinical work and results of modern neurobiological research, they propose ways to help individuals retrain their brains and develop psychological resilience. How can resilience be taught? How can their insights about individual mental health help us create resilient communities?<br><br><b>Steven Southwick</b> is the Glenn H. Greenberg Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and Medical Director of the Clinical Neurosciences Division of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. He is a recognized expert on the psychological and neurobiological effects of extreme psychological trauma and has worked with a wide range of stress sensitive and stress resilient individuals including combat veterans with PTSD, civilian children and adults with PTSD, and very high-functioning stress-resilient prisoners of war and active Special Forces soldiers. He has published on PTSD, the longitudinal course of trauma-related psychological symptoms, memory for traumatic events, and on neurobiological and psychological factors associated with resilience to stress. <br><br><b>Dennis Charney</b> is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. A world expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, he has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the causes of human anxiety, fear and depression and the discovery of new treatment for mood and anxiety disorders. More recently, his pioneering research has expanded to include the psychobiological mechanisms of human resilience to stress.<br><br><b>Shelley Carson</b> is an adjunct faculty member at Harvard's Department of Psychology. She is also a consultant on a major Department of Defense web project to provide mental health interventions for Service Members returning from deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is author of the 2010 book Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life. Her research has been featured in national media, including the Discovery Channel, CNN, and National Public Radio, as well as in national and international publications.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.<br><br><br>#############<br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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