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THE
8TH ANNUAL KEN BOOK AWARDS
THE
KEN BOOK AWARDS
ACKNOWLEDGE LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS
TO THE WORLD
OF MENTAL HEALTH
NAMI-NYC
Metro's Kenneth Johnson Memorial Research Library hosted its 8th
annual Ken Book Awards breakfast on Thursday, May 4, at the Yale
Club in New York City.
Winners -- Susanne Antonetta, James Whitney Hicks, M. D., Joshua
Wolf Shenk, Elizabeth Swados, and Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. -- were
selected based on their outstanding literary contributions to a
better understanding of mental illness. Previous Ken Book Award
winners have included Wally Lamb, Rick Moody, Kay Redfield Jamison,
Simon Winchester and Jane Pauley.
The
2006 keynote speaker was Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., a clinical professor
of surgery at Yale University Medical School, where he also teaches
bioethics and medical history. He is the author of Doctors: A Biography
of Medicine; The Wisdom of the Body; Lost in America: A Journey
with My Father (a 2004 Ken Book Award winner); and How We Die: Reflections
On Life's Final Chapter, for which he won the National Book Award
in 1995.
Awards
were presented this year by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine
Blais; award-winning author John Katzenbach; Harold Koplewicz, M.D.;
author and NAMI-NYC Metro Vice President Jay Neugeboren; NAMI National
board member Ananda Pandya, M.D.; and author Andrew Solomon.
2006 Book Award Winners:
Susanne Antonetta.
A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse
World
In A Mind Apart, Susanne Antonetta draws on her personal
experience with manic depression, as well as interviews with people
with multiple personality disorder, autism, schizophrenia, and other
"neuroatypical" conditions, to construct a fascinating
portrait of how the world shapes itself in minds that are profoundly
different from the norm.
James Whitney Hicks, M.D.
50 Signs of Mental Illness: A User-Friendly
Guide to Psychiatric Symptoms and What You Should Know About Them
This book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their
treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental
health or about symptoms observed in family members or close friends,
the volume presents fifty signs that may-or may not-signal mental
illness. Arranged alphabetically, the signs include everything from
anger to sexual preoccupations, from cravings to obsessions.
Joshua Wolf Shenk.
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged
a President and Fueled His Greatness
Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other
esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president
harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln
found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation's
worst crisis in the "coping strategies" he had developed
over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal
tragedies.
Elizabeth Swados.
My Depression: A Picture Book
Through the author's drawings, readers get a unique view of the
experience of depression: from the struggle to keep her condition
a secret, to the strange effects of 'new' drugs, to the small things
that can trigger relapses. For the thousands of Americans who suffer
from depression, My Depression is a gentle reminder that
they are not alone and that they can lead a fulfilling and happy
life.
Peter C.
Whybrow, M.D.
American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
In this analysis of our prosperous American society, renowned psychiatrist
Peter Whybrow reveals why as a nation of acquisitive migrants our
insatiable quest for more now threatens our health and happiness.
Citing the alarming statistics of obesity, depression, and panic
disorders, Whybrow alerts us to a behavior that is now testing the
limits of our ancestral biology-in mind and body-and threatens to
erode the very foundations of our community.
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