Mental illness affects as many as 1 in 5 Canadians over the course of their lives. Despite its ubiquity in families across Canada, understanding and acceptance lag far behind the reality of the numbers. As well as coping with the disease itself, people with mental illness also suffer shame, stigma and discrimination.
How are views and treatment of mental illness affected by biology, psychology, and modern social-cultural realities? Can efforts to combat stigma lead to improved attitudes and outcomes?
Please join us on Monday, November 17th when two renowned psychiatrists from Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) – Dr. David Goldbloom and Dr. Kwame McKenzie — sit down with award-winning Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente to address these challenging questions.
Dr. David Goldbloom is a psychiatrist and Senior Medical Advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a Professor at the University of Toronto, and Vice-Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Dr. Kwame McKenzie is a psychiatrist and Deputy Director of the Schizophrenia Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a Senior Scientist in CAMH’s Social Equity and Health Research Program and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Margaret Wente, one of Canada’s leading columnists, writes for The Globe and Mail and is a two-time winner of the National Newspaper Award for column-writing — the only journalist in Canada to hold that distinction.
