Test your truth: my message to psychiatrists
vol. 3 issue 31
Greetings,
In two weeks, I will be in Montana to give a talk about re-thinking the status quo, and so have been culling things I have written in the past to help inform my talk. I came across the text of a speech I gave in 2017 to the Washington Psychiatric Society and thought it ironic that it seemed to presage what I have tried to do with docu-mental.
Hopefully by the time I am in Montana, the fires there will have died out, but that’s certainly wishful thinking. It’s hot here in Washington, but at least it’s not burning. Not yet anyway.
Take care of yourselves. It’s damned hot.
Peace.
Whitney
This is the text of my Sept. 23, 2017 acceptance speech given before the Washington Psychiatric Society for their Journalist of the Year award. In it, I ask psychiatrists to be unafraid to name existential crises for what they are and to step up their efforts to help people find meaning and mattering in their pain.
As a journalist, I have a lot in common wit…
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