The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Modern Myths and Realities About Mental Illness

For Immediate Release – November 6, 2008 (Toronto) – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the Canadian Club present The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Modern Myths and Realities About Mental Illness, a dynamic exchange exploring mental illness in a modern context and discuss issues of biology, culture and stigma.

How are views and treatment of mental illness affected by biology, psychology, and modern social-cultural realities? Can efforts to combat stigma lead to improved attitudes and outcomes?

Click here to watch the video from the discussion (link to the Canadian Club's website).

Please join us on Monday, November 17^th when two renowned psychiatrists from Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) – Dr. David Goldbloom and Dr. Kwame McKenzie -- sit down with controversial award-winning Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente to address these challenging questions.

For more information, please call The Canadian Club at 416-364-5590 or visit www.canadianclub.org to purchase tickets.

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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues. CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre