CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

PR Log (Press Release) – Oct 14, 2009 – Guest host Dr. Mark Green, of "One Hour At A Time" on VoiceAmerica's Health & Wellness Channel will be interviewing author and journalist Pete Earley.  In a Washingtonian Magazine cover story entitled, Top Journalists: Washington's Media Elite, Pete Earley was described as one of a handful of journalists in America who "have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency." A former reporter for The Washington Post, he is the author of nine nonfiction books and three novels. His book, CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness, tells two stories. It describes his attempts to help his college age son, Mike, after he becomes ill with bipolar disorder and is arrested. It also describes a year that Earley spent at the Miami Dade County Jail where he followed persons with mental disorders, who had been in jail, out into the community to see what sort of services they received. His book was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and has won awards from Mental Health America and the American Psychiatric Association.

Some of Pete Earley’s other works include the following: Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring (1988) (A New York Times Bestseller), Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood Atonement Killings (1991), The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison (1992), Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town (1995) (Winner: Edgar Award, 1995, Best True Crime, Robert F. Kennedy Award), Confessions of A Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames (1997), Super Casino: Inside the “New” Las Vegas (2000), WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Security Program (2002), CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness (2006), COMRADE J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy In America After the End of the Cold War (2008) A New York Times and Washington Post bestseller.

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About Dr. Mark Green:
Mark is the Medical Director for WestBridge. He obtained his medical degree at the University of London in 1993 and worked in internal medicine for several years before moving to the U.S. He completed his psychiatry residency in 1999 and then a Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry, at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Green was an Assistant Professor at Cornell, working and teaching in dual diagnosis, and a research associate at Rockefeller University where he conducted research in the clinical neurobiology of addictive disease. In 2003, he relocated to the University of Vermont to become the first medical director of Vermont’s first methadone clinic. Dr. Green moved to Massachusetts in 2004. In addition to his responsibilities at WestBridge, Dr. Green teaches at Harvard Medical School and participates in Psychiatric training programs, lectures on topics in Dual Diagnoses and publishes articles on neurobiology, collaborative psychopharmacology, and clinical management issues.