Feb 18, 2010  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Sharon Packer, MD

This comprehensive collection of essays written by practicing psychiatrist, Sharon Packer, shows that superheroes are more about superegos than about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late 20th century.
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Feb 25, 2010  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Ruth L. Cohen, PhD

Are the images on the wall in a hospital room, doctor’s office or rehab center important to the wellbeing of a patient? Undoubtedly, yes. This book explores the opportunity for assisting healing through the utilization of art.
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Mar 4, 2010  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Irwin Epstein, PhD

Irwin Epstein, PhD will discuss his book: Clinical Data-Mining: Integrating Practice and Research during this edition of the NYAM Author Night Series. The book covers all the basics of conducting practitioner-initiated CDM studies or CDM doctoral dissertations, drawing extensively on published CDM studies and completed CDM dissertations from multiple social work settings in the United States, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. In addition, it describes consulting principles for researchers interested in forging collaborative university-agency CDM partnerships, making it a practical tool for novice practitioner-researchers and veteran academic-researchers alike.
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Mar 15, 2010  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Randi Hutter Epstein, MD

In GET ME OUT: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., serves as a capable midwife to a captivating and comprehensive history of how we get babies out of their mothers, and how this effort has evolved—for better and for worse—throughout human history.
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Mar 23, 2010  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: James E. C. Norris, MD

Fight On, My Soul is a just-released biography of an African-American country doctor, Morgan E. Norris, M.D., who practiced medicine in Jim Crow Virginia, 1917-1964. Written by Morgan’s son James E.C. Norris, also a physician, it chronicles the life of a fearless and indomitable man.
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Apr 8 - May 13, 2010  •  See event description for schedule

Speakers: Richard Goodman

Richard Goodman will take participants through a series of writing exercises geared toward making use of fictional techniques in creative nonfiction. If you have ever wanted to write essays, memoir, or tell your life story in words, this workshop will provide an excellent start.
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