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10:00Identifying and Treating Severe Mental Illness

A look at the mental health system and proposals to improve it.

Guests

Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health/NIH

Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, president of the Treatment Advocacy Center

David Shern, president and CEO of Mental Health America

11:00Readers' Review: "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Join Diane and her guests for a discussion of this novel about a newly married Bengali couple's immigration from India to the U.S., their two children, and how all their lives are shaped by accidental events in spite of their plans and intentions.

Guests

Christopher Tilghman, novelist, critic and professor of literature at the University of Virginia

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news at "The Washington Post"

Patricia Griffith, novelist and associate professor of English at George Washington University

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