Kay Redfield Jamison

Night Falls Fast

October 4, 1999

Gutman Conference Center

6 Appian Way, Cambridge

As a launch for National Mental Health Awareness Week, Harvard Book Store, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the National Depression Screening Project presents esteemed author and Doctor of Philosophy Kay Redfield Jamison in a presentation and Q&A on the nature of suicide, as outlined in her new book Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. Jamison is also the author of the national bestseller An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. Book sales and signing will follow the event.

font size=+2>Information on suicide and assistance for those suffering from depression are available through a variety of sources:

The National Screening Depression project Web site at www.nmisp.org (800-573-4433) has information on depression screening sites (for the Oct. 7th screening initiative).

Manic-Depressive & Depressive Association of Boston, www.mddaboston.org (or 617-855-2795) also has information.

And for a link to the U.S. Surgeon General's call to action to prevent suicide, go to The Surgeon General's website.

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