Ignite Seattle 20 is another double feature at Town Hall Seattle – Your $5 admission gets you into Ignite and a reading by psychotherapist and author Gary Greenberg.
Gary will kick off Town Hall’s May 16 double feature at 6 pm (one $5 ticket gets you into see him and Ignite!) with an entertaining expose of the new, fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — the DSM — the American Psychiatric Association’s compendium of mental illnesses “Bible.”
Since its debut in 1952, the DSM has been frequently revised and, with each revision, so has the “official” view on which psychological problems constitute mental illness. Homosexuality, for instance, was classified as a mental illness until 1973, and Asperger’s gained recognition in 1994 only to see its status challenged nearly 20 years later.
Each revision created controversy, but the DSM-5, the newest iteration, has shaken psychiatry to its foundations. The APA has taken fire from all corners — and now from Greenberg — for extending the reach of psychiatry into daily life by encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses and prescribe more therapies — often medications whose efficacy is unknown and whose side effects are severe.
Here is the final lineup for tonight’s event at Town Hall. Speakers start at 8pm and we will be live streaming the event. If you’re tweeting, please use the hashtag #IS19, you can also watch that tag and our Twitter feed for live tweeting throughout the event.
1. Tae Phoenix - How to Write a Song
2. Jonathon - Colman Surviving as an Introvert in an Extroverted World
3. Wendy Hinman - We’re Gonna Die!
4. Lindsay Sharma -What do Swaziland, Papua New Guinea and the United States have in common?
5. Sara Kiesler - How to Give Up Cheese
6. Bruce Ryan - Nothing is Impossible
7. Adam Philipp - NETWORKING, the RPG
Intermission
1. Jessika Satori - So you want to make an indie movie!
2. Forest Gibson - How to make a viral video (and why it’s not easy)
3. Kate Bergstrom - Online Dating Tips I Have Learned After Meeting Over 100 Men
4. Andrew Dumont - Projects: From Idea to Launch and Beyond
5. Sara McNally - How the downturn made me a small business owner (and why it was a good idea)
6. Hillel Cooperman - How I got seriously hurt at summer camp, and ended up meeting Donnie and Marie instead.
7. James Davenport - Mapping the United States of Starbucks
8. Geraldine DeRuiter - Sharing Personal News Online
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