Nancy Rappaport, In Her Wake

Start: Thu, 11/05/2009 - 7:00pm

"A powerful and eloquent book about loss and incomprehension, and a unique journey of learning and reconciliation."

Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind

"With the eyes of a probing detective, the wisdom and empathy of a clinician, and the yearning and love of a devoted daughter, Rappaport traces the roots and remnants of her mother’s suicide. Blending honesty and delicacy, passion and restraint, In Her Wake is riveting and revelatory reading."

Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, author of The Third Chapter

Nancy Rappaport is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is Director of School Based Programs in Child Psychiatry at the Harvard Teaching Affiliate Cambridge Health Alliance with a focus on servicing youth, families, and staff in public schools. Dr. Rappaport completed her medical degree at Tufts Medical School in 1988 and is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She has presented nationally and regionally on her experience with school-based program development for violent and aggressive children. She has published extensively, requested reviews and peer review journals to help redefine the expectations of child psychiatrists. Her research focuses on understanding the demographic profile of aggressive students in urban settings to discern the psychiatric diagnoses, functional impairment, psychosocial stressors, and appropriate interventions. She teaches Harvard undergraduates and residents about child development and supervises child fellows in schools.

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