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Our Truth and Restoration Town Hall, “Structural, Environmental, and Nuclear Violence: One World or None,” took place on Saturday, November 20, from 11:00 am – 12:30pm ET.
You may recognize from the subtitle, “One World or None,” the famous book that Albert Einstein, H.H. Arnold, J.R. Oppenheimer, and others brought together 75 years ago as they launched a project for our collective survival in the Atomic Age. It later became the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which sets the Doomsday Clock every year. We are now at 100 seconds, the closest humanity has been to its doom since the creation of the Clock in 1947. The World Mental Health Coalition now declares our era “the Psychological Age,” where a correct understanding of our own psychology and mind will be critical in determining whether humanity will perish or persist.
Speakers:
Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D. – economist and global leader in sustainable development
Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. – epidemiologist and leading scholar on inequality
James Gilligan, M.D. – psychiatrist and leading scholar on structural violence
Lise Van Susteren, M.D. – psychiatrist and government advisor on climate change
Sherry Sykes – Senior State Department Foreign Service Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry
Peter Kuznick, Ph.D. – nuclear historian and coauthor of “The Untold History of the United States”
Kennette Benedict, Ph.D. – former publisher and executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bandy Lee, M.D., M.Div. – forensic psychiatrist and president of the World Mental Health Coalition
Our Truth and Restoration Town Hall, “Militarism, Imperialism and the Future of Democracy,” took place on Sunday, September 19, from 1:30 – 3:00pm ET.
Co-hosts: Dr. Bandy Lee, president of the World Mental Health Coalition and Mr. Michael D’Antonio, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success.
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Our Truth and Restoration Town Hall, “Authoritarian Cults, Media Indoctrination, and Shared Psychosis,” took place on Saturday, July 17, 2021, at 3 p.m. EDT.
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The U. Penn. Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law held a major symposium on the Goldwater rule on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Click here to read presenter papers.
We extended this discussion at our own Truth and Restoration Town Hall, “Dangerous Leadership, the Silencing of Experts, and the Erasure of Truth,” on Saturday, May 15, 2021 (please see below for a recording of this event).
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On Monday, May 3, 2021, we submitted our petition to Yale, with the first 1000 mental health professional and 1 Congress member signatories. A citizen petition, independent of us, has also exceeded 4000 signatures.
Our Truth and Restoration Town Hall on “Racism, White Supremacy, and Societal Mental Health,” took place on March 13, 2021 (please see below for a recording of this event).
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WORLD MENTAL HEALTH COALITION
In 2017, when we saw that mental health organizations were being politically pressured to keep silent in the face of an unprecedented public health risk to the nation, we decided to step in where they acquiesced and placed self-preservation over protection of society. This is how we became the nation’s first and largest mental health professionals-only organization to address the issue of dangerous leadership and our professional societal responsibility.
As the most imminent dangers of the Trump presidency abated, we have now turned our focus to prevention: improving societal mental health so that a body politic may not readily be attracted to psychologically dangerous leaders. Our activities have expanded from U.S.-based issues to global ones, just as our membership has expanded. We hope that you will join us in our mission.
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