It’s Friday, which means getting an email from #JHU that I don’t care about. Full of nonsense like: #JohnsHopkins Alumni Association Golf Outing 🤦

Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold #medicine

#Settlement
#MedicalResearch
#JohnsHopkins
#BlackMastodon

https://apnews.com/article/henrietta-lacks-hela-cells-thermo-fisher-scientific-bfba4a6c10396efa34c9b79a544f0729

TITLE: Kay Redfield Jamison: Healing in Mind (*Lancet*) [Book -- Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind. ]

Thank you Dr. Pope for the summary.

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The new issue of The Lancet includes an article: “Kay Redfield Jamison: healing in mind” by Niall Boyce.

Here are some excerpts:

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I am talking on Zoom with Kay Redfield Jamison, Co-Director of the Mood Disorders Center and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, about her new book Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind. Its optimistic title is belied by the dustjacket photograph depicting flames rising from Notre Dame cathedral during the 2019 fire. While pointing out that she does not choose her cover art, Jamison nevertheless thinks it is an appropriate image:

“Since I wrote about Notre Dame, and what it is that you can bring from ruin and destruction, it has some meaning there.” The book's title, meanwhile, is taken from English writer Siegfried Sassoon's poem To a Very Wise Man, a tribute to W H R Rivers, the psychiatrist who helped him cope with trauma sustained in World War 1.

Fires in the Dark is the latest in a series of highly regarded publications by Jamison; previous topics include creativity and mental illness, suicide, bereavement, and exuberance.

The book is concerned with healing, and Jamison has in her life been both the healer and the healed; her experience of bipolar disorder was the subject of her 1995 memoir An Unquiet Mind.

Fires in the Dark is a book about finding a way forward, but it is also a revisitation of Jamison's past, as its subtitle suggests. Jamison recalls an episode of depression that she had as a 17-year-old in California during the 1960s, when help came not from a psychiatrist, but from an English teacher: “Nobody talked about depression. I mean, it just wasn’t done…But he came to me with a couple of volumes by Robert Lowell, and Sherston's Progress by Sassoon, and The Once and Future King by T H White.” Jamison tells me that these books—poetry, fictionalised war memoir, and Arthurian legend—“have just stayed in my life since”.

There is an epic quality to Jamison's own life; her early years were spent moving “from Florida to California to Puerto Rico, Japan, Washington” with her family—her father was a scientist and pilot with the US Air Force. “I actually loved it, and enjoyed meeting new people”, she says. Settling in Pacific Palisades, CA, USA, when her father took a job with the RAND Corporation, Jamison's thoughts turned to the medical world; psychology, she explains, came later.

At one point, she was set to become a veterinarian; and yet, discussing this stage in her life, I detect a hint of where her talents would eventually lead her. Animals, Jamison says, are “different, they go through the same world [as humans] and they sense that differently”. Perhaps this interest in communication across seemingly insuperable barriers meant that her eventual qualification in clinical psychology was on the cards from the start? One of the most frustrating things about mental illness, Jamison tells me, “is that you can’t communicate in your normal way. So it's up to the therapist…How do you find out what someone is feeling and thinking when they’re so ill, and so embarrassed about being ill?”

Jamison has tackled that stigma in her own life, making public her experience of bipolar disorder in An Unquiet Mind. While family and colleagues were largely supportive, she experienced a ferocious backlash from some quarters. “I got a lot of hate mail”, Jamison recalls. “A lot of people saying it's a good thing you didn’t have children [and] pass these genes on.” But it was vital to Jamison to tell her story, other people's accounts of their illness having proved invaluable to her: “When I got manic the first time, I was so terrified…everything was just bleak, bleak. The fact that people had gotten through it was very meaningful, very important.” In a field that is often marked by professional polarisation, Jamison takes a holistic attitude towards healing: “I think psychotherapy is so undervalued. And I think there's no question in my own mind that for myself, psychotherapy kept me as alive as lithium did.”

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We return to the subject of Rivers, one of the key psychological and societal healers featured in Fires in the Dark. Jamison tells me that it was said “that he came by understanding human nature probably through more different paths than anyone else. Through experimental psychology, anthropology, neurology, psychiatry, medical psychology…there's profundity there of wisdom; of human wisdom, and an openness to experience, and a compassion toward suffering.”

I’m struck that Jamison takes a similarly expansive approach: she is focused not only on the acute stages of mental health problems, but also on what comes afterwards: “if you’ve got to spend the rest of your life knowing that you’ve got a recurrent illness—that you may get sick at any time, under the best of circumstances—you’ve got to figure out what you’re going to do with that. And to me…healing is a lot of getting well enough and insightful enough to say: How do I take on the world? How do I take some purpose from this?”

Although the US health-care system—which Jamison describes as “utterly completely broken”—does not make it easy for clinicians to work as healers, she remains optimistic. Towards the end of our conversation, I ask her about her statement in An Unquiet Mind that she “long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms”. Is this still the case?

“I’ve been very lucky”, she replies. “By medical standards, I have a bad version of bipolar illness, but by treatment standards, I have a very good response.” She looks thoughtful. “The idea that there are storms out there doesn’t bother me.”

Ken Pope

Ken Pope, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Hector Y. Adames, Janet L. Sonne, and Beverly A. Greene
Speaking the Unspoken: Breaking the Silence, Myths, and Taboos That Hurt Therapists and Patients (APA, 2023)
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
—Jo March in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868)

#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy #therapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #bipolar #book #bookreview #johnshopkins #hopkins #firesinthedark #anunquietmind

Johns Hopkins University has been added to the list of Clop victims after confirming it had been breached through MOVEit to The Record last month

#Clop #MOVEIT #JohnsHopkins

https://therecord.media/several-us-federal-agencies-affected-by-moveit-breach

New lawsuit seeks to stop colleges from rewarding 'legacy' applicants :

An Associated Press survey of the nation's most selective colleges last year found that legacy students in the freshman class ranged from 4% to 23%.
#affirmativeaction #alumni #Amherst #ChicaProject #civilrights #college #collegeadmissions #discrimination #EducationDepartment #Harvard #IvyLeague #JohnsHopkins #NAACP

https://kbindependent.org/2023/07/03/new-lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-colleges-from-rewarding-legacy-applicants/

Kudos to the State of Maryland for investing tobacco settlement dollars since 2000 in cancer research at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center - @weldeiry

#cancer #cancerresearch #johnshopkins #kudos #maryland #oncology #grants #rhodeisland #oncodaily

https://twitter.com/oncodaily/status/1673076344136007691?s=46&t=cd4Q5eAI1-Z0PogDZEjQPw

#Women are being #erased #JohnsHopkins #nonmen

https://newstarget.com/2023-06-15-johns-hopkins-erases-women-woke-guide-nonmen.html

#Women are being #erased

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-15-johns-hopkins-erases-women-woke-guide-nonmen.html

#JohnsHopkins #nonmen

😲Wie bitte?!?😲

J.K.Rowing bei Twitter zum neuen Vokabular der Johns Hopkins University:

Man: no definition needed.
Non-man (formerly known as woman):
a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a vacuum where there's no man-ness.

Screenshot des LGBTQ-Glossary der Uni: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1668589229046112258

#Gendern #Rowling #JKRowling #JohnsHopkins

I once emailed the engineering department at #JohnsHopkins asking them to build a sonic shower from #StarTrek. I never heard back from them. I was very disappointed.

Don't get me wrong. I hate the Russian government. I strongly want a free #Ukraine. But, #Zelenskyy addressing my alma mater's 2023 graduating class is just fucking weird. Seriously. It could not be more out of place for a man who is leading a war to liberate his people from #Russia's aggression. WTF. Shame on #JohnsHopkins for this stunt in the middle of a war. #JHU
https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/05/25/commencement-2023-volodymyr-zelenskyy-remarks/?utm_source=Alumni+-+Weekly+Update&utm_campaign=4b951b9631-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_05_24_12_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_82ece9ffab-891d6035ba-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=4b951b9631&mc_eid=72e8df7c25

Ciaran Harman tells us that it's the curiosity to better understand how water moves through all the parts of the #CriticalZone that is what fascinates about #hydrology research.

Harman is an Associate Professor and Russell Craft Faculty Scholar at #JohnsHopkins Whiting School of #Engineering Department of #Environmental Health and Engineering and a member of the #CriticalZone Collaborative Network's @bedrockzone

#SciComm #biogeochemistry

#Datreveno #JohnsHopkins #Filantropio

Je ĉi dato en 1795 naskiĝis Johns Hopkins, kvakera komercanto, kies sagaj investado provizis la heredon por orfejoj, instrua malsanulejo kaj esplorejo, kaj universitato, kiuj portas lian nomon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hopkinsp.jpg

Bloody hell! My latest brain MRI has 2644 files. That's much more than the previous MRIs. I feel like someone messed up...

I'm still going to send it to Johns Hopkins and see what they say.

Either that or my brain is now four dimensional and some of the brain matter is stored in the fourth dimension. 🤔

#brain #BrainMRI #mri #cancer #johnshopkins

Sigh. My alma mater continues to disappoint. #JohnsHopkins is actually boasting about its ranking with U.S. News & World Report. WTF, #JHU? From an email to Johns Hopkins alumni:

#JohnsHopkins MS in Energy Policy and Climate is over $200,000, in total, tuition only. My master's from #JHU was a fraction of that. This to me is obscene exploitation of students for a degrees in a field that is in demand.

#Climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

New details of Billie Holiday's early life.

https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/04/11/billie-holiday-collection-baltimore/?utm_source=Alumni+-+Weekly+Update&utm_campaign=34c0bf51f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_12_11_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_82ece9ffab-d399afcb90-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=34c0bf51f7&mc_eid=72e8df7c25

#BillieHoliday #baltimore #BaltimoreMuseumofArt #jazz @jazz #JohnsHopkins #JHU

https://highandmighty.substack.com/p/opium-money-in-prominent-us-families

#opium #opioids #drugs #drug #money #politics #government #history #yale #harvard #johnshopkins #ucberkeley

Johns Hopkins has been so obsessed with #ChatGPT the last few weeks. It is just shameful. And, frankly, embarrassing.

#JohnsHopkins #JHU

Johns Hopkins has been so obsessed with #ChatGPT in the last few weeks. It is just shameful. And, frankly, embarrassing.

#JohnsHopkins #JHU