August 3, 2001

A Prescription for Healing the Whole Student

By GERTRUDE CARTER and JEFFREY WINSEMAN

A steadily growing number of students who are struggling with depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and other problems visit campus health-care services -- such as ours at Bennington College -- for the sole purpose of refilling prescriptions. Many of those students tell us they are not interested in working toward an understanding of their lives. They ask only that their regimens of psychotropic medications -- antidepressants, Ritalin, tranquilizers, and others -- be continued or

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