By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, May 25, 2015 John Forbes Nash, Jr., a mathematician who rode the line between genius and madness all the way to a Nobel Prize, died Saturday in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike at the age of 86, along with his wife, Alicia, 82. Nash developed […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, May 23, 2015 At Basic Rights Oregon and other gay rights organizations, they were breaking out the bubbly Thursday – the bubbly press releases, that is – as Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law HB 2307, a ban on state-licensed mental health professionals using “conversion therapy” on […]
From The Oregonian, October 6, 2013 [Eds. MHAP Board members Jenny Westberg and Jason Renaud will join Anna Griffin of The Oregonian for an online conversation with readers, per below.] Twenty-three-year-old Melanie Carlson hears voices. She sees strange things — messages hidden in fast-food cups, crowds of people connected by green lines of energy — […]
Guest Column for The Oregonian, September 18, 2012 By Jenny Westberg, representing the Board of the Mental Health Association of Portland We applaud the Department of Justice’s acknowledgement of the problem we have been talking about for years, but its recommendations to the Portland Police Bureau will only serve to extend that problem. They continue […]
Guest column by Jenny Westberg, published in The Oregonian, July 18, 2012 An arbitrator’s decision last week to overturn 80-hour suspensions against Portland police officers involved in the 2006 death of James Chasse will further erode community confidence in the police, particularly among those affected by mental illness. Although the police union considers the ruling […]
This editorial opinion is by Jenny Westberg and represents the Mental Health Association of Portland. The only relevant issue in the 2012 mayoral campaign is police accountability. Other issues can wait. Jobs and schools and bike paths are only useful if we’re alive to enjoy them. Only one issue is life-and-death: police officers who shoot […]
By: Women Survivors of Sexual Trauma, for The Lund Report, February 14, 2012 A new, weekly peer-facilitated support group, Women Survivors of Sexual Trauma, will hold its first meeting Wednesday, March 7, and thereafter it will meet every Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. at Empowerment Initiatives, 3941 SE Hawthorne Blvd. in Portland. The group will be […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner The device manufacturer swears it’s effective. The FDA approved it. But is there any evidence for vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for treatment-resistant depression? Susan Ricketts contacted me after reading “Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for depression: Does it work?” on this site. Now, in an exclusive interview, Ricketts describes […]
Opinion by the editors of The Oregonian, December 5, 2011 Nearly two years ago, The Skanner newspaper issued a startling SOS call about, well, SOS calls. The African American newspaper advised its readers not to call the Portland Police Bureau. “We cannot have faith that innocents won’t get caught in the firing line when trigger-finger […]
Guest Editorial published in The Oregonian, February 16, 2011 Come July, Portland police officers will have some extra spending money in their paychecks, but their new contract with the city actually includes something far more valuable. For some, it’s a chance at a new life. The “treatment-first” option packaged with random drug testing in the […]
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