brian: are you a doctor of psychiatry? arnold: yes. i'm a physician and a professor of psychiatry brian: why that field for you? when did you get interested in that? arnold: oh, my goodness. i don't know. i started off medical school thinking about surgery and general practice. and somewhere along the way, maybe in my third year of medical school -- brian: where did you go, by the way? arnold: university of pennsylvania. brian: ok. arnold: i sat in an on a lecture, one of my first psychiatry lectures and it is like falling in. you see somebody. something clicks. and i knew the field was for me. that is how i ended up in psychiatry. brian: what about the cover of this book? what's this saying? arnold: well, it says there is a relationship between political leaders and other primates. this is a particularly whimsical portrait done by donald roller wilson. it says, i believe, a lot of some of the conclusions i came to in the book. brian: give us a couple. arnold: well, before i give them to you i really need to explain how i came to these

and i am speaking on behalf of the organizing committee and particularly those of us who work in psychiatry at s.f. general hospital. i am at a unit where i have been a psychiatrist for 30 years. i also pass on the analysis regarding the services for which sedar should be held accountable, as i am more free to speak and the employees of sedar health. -- sutter health. our job is to stabilize them and transfer them to a corporate facilities for follow-up. those facilities are rapidly being eliminated, meeting our patients can and a back in the streets. -- can end up back on the streets. with the st. luke's rebuilt, in regards to the community outreach, the comments of our doctors were literally written out of the minutes. they cannot solve the city's mental health issues and then ask for permission to effectively eliminate all of their sites -- psych beds. they are talking about where it -- keeping some at one campus but not say for how long. i will skip the most important parts since i heard the bell. cpmc pays no property tax on any of their buildings and yet make over $140 million per yea

stanislas dehaene is a cognitive neuroscientist and the chair of experimental college of psychiatry at college defrance in paris. timothy wilson is a professor of psychology at the university of virginia and the author of "redirect, the surprising new science of change." nicholas schiff is the jerrod b. katz professor at weill cornell medical college. and once again my co-herself is dr. eric kandel. he is a nobel laureate, a professor at columbia university d a howard hughes medical investigator. this is going to be fun. tell me, is it really true that one of the great questions is about consciouess? >> it is the greatest question in all of science and certainly the deepest question in all of brain science. and the amazing thing is as we sensed in last year's program that this is an area of knowledge that we thought was very primitive and i think what we're going to learn today is that an amazing amount of progress has occurred in the last decade and a half. we not only have a better unrstanding of unconscious processes but also of conscious processes and of disorders of consciousness.

sisters far more than we do with our parents, with our friends, and yet it has taken 80 years for psychiatry and family therapy to even say, maybe this is important. so by the time you get to be adults, often you are strangers, you are foreigners. there is a national statistic about 45 to 50 percent of us have challenged relationships that you have, you know, borderline things, 10 percent of people don't speak to their siblings at all. twelve percent are what my brother and i were. you would brace yourself to be with your, i would brace myself, my brother would start his tirades and all of these shadow issues. >> as you were hearing the stories of the people you would hear well, all of this academic and intellectual grounding for sibling relationships, then what happened? >> it was a trigger, people would say what are you working on? i would say the story about my brother and me. people would tell me about their stories. we are like minnows swimming in the well of childhood as brothers and sisters. one of the great questions for many of us is why can't we see our brother or sister as others

she may face child endangerment charges after a psychiatry terrific evaluation. >>> four shootings in oakland over the weekend. one person was killed. two people were hurt. police have not made any arrests. it is not clear if they're connected. >>> meanwhile, investigators in the northeast are trying to figure out what caused a fire that killed five people, including three young children. manuel gallegus tells us the owner was able to get out. but not her relatives. >> reporter: flowers lay outside a connecticut home where three children and their grandparents died in a christmas morning fire. flames gutted the victorian style home that sits along the long island sound. the fire started just before 5:00 sunday morning. and quickly spread. >> the first units on the scene, attempted rescues, within the structure that were pushed back by intense flame and heat. >> reporter: a well-known advertising executive owns the house and escaped along with the male contractor who was helping renovating the million dollar home. but madonna badger's three daughters, a 10-year-old and twin 7-year-olds

we do on the job training was city-wide case management, there with the ucsf department of psychiatry. we have partnered with dupont from the for-profit sector. city pains, we have been told we can get up to 200 jobs to the small mom-and-pop type businesses. it $10,000 tax credit will make it really possible to help these small businesses to really make it. $10,000 is a lot of money. in any stressed economy like we have right now peter i am in full support of this could i am a resident of san francisco, a voter, and i am 100% on board with this legislation. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. gordon. any other public comment? seeing none, i believe public comment is closed. supervisor chu: given that, we will close public comment. colleagues, the item is before us. supervisor kim: i actually just had some questions. i am sorry i did not ask them before public comment, but i want folks to be able to speak. i understand this is one-time did not want to clarify, is it a 607 $5,000 credit per job? for just one year? supervisor kim: it is one time per offender, and it

managed to get persuaded against donald who was the perfect so they got offices for upwards of aids, psychiatry in the white house which meant when the president was and that's when he put it because kennedy was the sort of person who liked to head of questions. if the bundy had a piece of information he would like to discuss it. it's a very bank bang administration and like to talk in shorthand. a thing like obama. he didn't like people to lecture him. he thought he understood things just tell me what's new and interesting. >> who was george bundy before? >> dean kawlija and felt he was the de facto president of harvard college because he was smart and brought a very impressive people to the faculty. free person in a position he was popular among faculty and he got to know him because he was on the review of over. he was a harvard grad and i think it was the senator from massachusetts, kennedy's all george bundy operate with others and he was impressed with that so that made him. that's where he came from. he had previously written the memoirs of henry simpson, very important figure in the nat

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at the university of pennsylvania department of psychiatry. dr. berkowitz is the director of the pen center for andyouth at the center of recovery. dr. abramsohn has examined how childhood exposure to violence correlates to juvenile offending, and how alternatives to the attention -- detention reduce recidivism. dr. alan rosenberg is executive director of the baltimore child abuse center, and prior to directing the center, he served as the prosecutor in the domestic violence unit and a sex offense unit of the baltimore city state attorney's office. we will start with the honorable patricia martin. >> thank you so much, mr. chair, ladies and gentlemen of the task force. i am honored and privileged to be here and have a conversation with you this afternoon. i have written my oral testimony five times before today. i hope that my written testimony does provide some insight. what i would like to do is address some of the questions that were posed earlier today. i do have the names of persons who asked a person's -- i do hope the names -- have the

. >> reverse psychiatry. >> i love it.orth carolina, submitted this photo. too late. busted. we cannot figure out why, we went back to the person that took it and said we don't understand if it's a loitering thing, why they would have that on one sign. >> well, then say don't loiter. >> one would think. >> thank you, sarah. is that it? send all of your pictures in to klhoda.com. >>> we have some interesting things you may not know about new year's day. you think you know everything? guess what? >>> plus, your places to travel to in 2012. >>> and what does your man want? >> really? >> donny deutsch man has got the answer. >> i like him with his glasses on. >> he's sitting on the answers right now. >>> and we are back with more of "today." >>> and we are back with more of "today." our weekly trivia game we call "who knew?" 2012 is just days away. we're testing our knowledge with the chief historian at the history channel. she's with us. kathie lee, of course, is right across the street at the nbc experience store. she's goin

according to the american academy of child and adolescent psychiatry the answer is 80,000. number of unreported cases is much higher because children are afraid to speak out. >>> you'll hear from a woman who was molested in her childhood home. details on this right after a look at the top stories. >>> volunteers fanned out across arlington national cemetery today to put wreaths on about 100,000 head stones. for the past 20 years the group wreaths across america has organized wreath layings at cemeteries and veterans memorial across the country. >>> president barack obama now knows what it's like to enter a white house security checkpoint. he was walking back from a holiday party at the blair house when he set off a metal detector. the president's cell phone caused it to beep. he joked that he just wanted to see what it would be like. >>> the obama administration says it is still working to bring a retired fbi agent home. robert levinson went missing in iran nearly five years ago. he may be in afghanistan or pakistan. his family posted this video from his captors online this

and al the kind of things that may be a perfect candidate for psychiatry and i have a great sense of... a great sense of luck and fortune that a man by the name of peter newbauer was the psychiatrist that tended to my needs the second time around but the brutality of my father took its toll but it helped me derstand once i started bringing children in into the world/may not have known all the things i should have done but i certainly knew a host of things i would never do. >> rose: we should say that there's one moment that's very touching in what your dad was going to go off to do something fun with you and your mom said no, you weren't going and so your dad... take up the story. >> well, as a kid i the 1930s and the 1940s in harlem there were not any ro models that were ailable to us. certainly not in the abundance that exists now. and one of the real heroes of the day was joe louis and he could do absolutely no wrong. and my uncle, whose name was ling don love, was a gangster and he had a powerful position in the numbers business and he had a relationship to the sports world and wh

mark feldman is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the university of alabama. >> we have to understands about sudden infant death syndrome. one is that there is typically no warning sign. the first discovery that something is wrong is the death of the child. marie noe, somewhat surprisingly, had a few near death experiences with some of her kids. there aren't serial sids deaths in the family. the saying was that one sids death in a family is sids. two is suspicious and three is homicide. >> dr. molly depena, who is a sids expert and performed autopsies on three of the noe children agrees that a serial sids case just isn't possible. >> apparently because it's not a genetic phenomenon, it is a natural, as far as we know, death, they are simply, sudden, unexpected and unexplained deaths. >> if the children weren't dying from sids, then what or who was killing them? on several occasions, marie noe took her babies to the hospital with breathing problems. but the children were released after doctors found nothing wrong with them. dr. feldman believes this kind of behavior could be a symptom

. >> what psychology and medicine and psychiatry have been about has been taking people after they'vefered bad events and trying to undo illness. so this is an attempt to turn medicine and psychology on its head and say let's arm people who are going to be put in harms way beforehand and see if it doesn't have a noticeable effect on saving lives and lowering depression on lowering anxiety. >> reporter: 17 research studies have shown children and adolescents improve when the principles of positive psychology are applied and seligman sees no reason why that won't also work in the army. >> it's a training program based on the best evidence that science has about the prevention of anxiety and depression. so it seems to me quite reasonable thing for the army to be doing it. if i had to look around the entire literature on anxiety and depression and the prevention of it this is the best documented hypothesis. >> reporter: but critics complain that hypothesis was never tested in a military setting before it was rolled out. is there any science based research the army can point to that shows

all, what kind of doctor are used because i'm a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry at gw. medical school. >> how do you get inside the mind of the presidents? >> it's a technique called applied psychoanalysis we take psychoanalytical principles and untried and a psychoanalyst, and apply them to people you can never get in your consulting room. so for instance, freud did that. use the first one to do that with people like leonardo da vinci, and even moses. then fdr hired somebody to do that with hitler during world war ii. and it's a very well-established technique to study famous people by using analytic principles. and obama wrote two autobiographies so that made it very interesting to see what he put in, what he left out, and then how it relates to his behavior as president. >> what is one thing we're going to learn about president obama in your book's? >> he is deeply obsessed with uniting the country because he came from a broken home. he's half black and half white, and he wants to heal his inside. that's why he became a community organizer after harvard law sc