About
I studied with Theodor Reik in psychoanalysis and John Rosen in psychosis. I'm clinical professor in psychiatry at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and cofounder of the Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation. My books include The Awakening Nightmare, China Today:Sin or Virtue, Hard Boiled Eggs and Other Psychiatric Tales.
I have lectured worldwide about the treatment of mental illness in small communities.
My work was subject of the documentary film Other Voices, nominated for an Academy Award, thee Look Magazine article Breakthrough in Psychiatry—Revolutionary Treatment of the Mentally Ill, and The New York Magazine story—Emerging from Schizophrenia.
Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA Scientist
Description
Laura Hoopes takes you along as she tries to enter science in the 1960's in the post-Sputnik science education frenzy, only to find doors closed to women. She persists, makes a career of molecular gerontology and insists on making space for marriage and children in her life. This inspiring read says, "Yes, you can," to women who have dreams of their own.
Story Behind The Book
Eighty-five percent of readers have some experience with some form of emotional disfunction. We all experience the highs and lows of depression.Everyone can identify with some of the characters. "There goes, accept for grace of God goes me."
