Reading and Discussion with Terry Garahan

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For a reading and discussion from author of When Truth Lies: A Journey with Schizophrenia , Terry Garahan.

               

Location:   Touhey Forum, in the Lally School of Education

Date:              Thursday, Oct 25, 2012

Time:             6:00pm

Terry Garahan began his work with the mentally ill in 1975, interviewing patients being discharged from Willard Psychiatric Hospital in upstate New York. He developed programs to reintroduce them to the community. This was followed by many years supervising a mental health outpatient clinic in Ithaca, New York. His work gave him insight into the lives of individuals who are mostly avoided by the rest of society. His groundbreaking effort developing police/mental health programs were well documented in a New York Times cover story and a 60 Minutes II segment with Dan Rather. He is an FBI-trained hostage negotiator and crisis counselor who worked with hundreds of World Trade Center survivors after September 11, 2001. He currently teaches mental health and counseling at Ithaca College.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Sponsored by NAMI Syracuse