March 3, 2006

When a Student May Be Mentally Ill

To the Editor:

As a faculty member, I can empathize with Harry Lancaster's confusion about how to handle students' emotional problems ("Not a Counselor," Careers, February 3). Yet, as a historian of medicine and a person with a mood disorder, I'm disturbed by the article's emphasis on the most extreme cases involving criminal behavior and threats of violence. This focus does a tremendous disservice to those with mental-health problems by perpetuating negative stereotypes about the

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