Gendered Dimensions and Impacts of Suicide Bereavement: Exploring Lived Experiences

IMPRI Special Lecture on Gendered Dimensions and Impacts of Suicide Bereavement: Exploring Lived Experiences by Dr Nandini Murali.

Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI and WestLands Books invite you to an IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk – IMPRI Special Lecture on

Gendered Dimensions and Impacts of Suicide Bereavement: Exploring Lived Experiences

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: February 15, 2021; Monday
Time: 18:00 IST (GMT+5:30)
Platform: Zoom and Facebook live

Speaker:

Dr Nandini Murali, Suicide prevention and Mental Health Activist and Author 

Chair:

Prof Prabha Chandra, Professor and Head of Psychiatry at NIMHANS, Bangalore

Prabha S Chandra is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, INDIA. She is President-Elect of the International Association for Women’s Mental Health and has been a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is a clinician and an academic and her research spans from gender issues in mental health to perinatal mental health and early childhood. Dr Prabha is an editor and author of several books on the topic and has been featured as a champion for women’s mental health in India by the Lancet journal.

Discussant:

Dr Carla Fine, Author, Lecturer, and Workshop Leader

Carla Fine is the author of the internationally best-selling book No Time To Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One,now available on audio narrated by Carla Fine. The book is currently in its 24th printing and is also available in Japanese (Fuso Publishers), Korean (Kungree Publishers) , and Portuguese (Martins Fontes Publisher.)

No Time to Say Goodbye is a personal story—Carla’s husband, a prominent New York physician, killed himself in 1989 at the age of 43.  She also interviewed more than 60 other people who lost sons and daughters, wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, friends and relatives to suicide. The book describes the different stages of grieving surrounding the suicide of a loved one, and helps survivors see that they are not alone in their confusion and grief.

Carla is also the author of Touched By Suicide: Hope And Healing After Loss, cowritten with Dr Michael Myers. Carla is the author or co-author of seven other books and her work has appeared in leading publications throughout the world. She frequently appears in the media on national and local television and radio programs. Carla lectures extensively to suicide survivors’ groups and professional organizations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and India.  In addition, she also offers workshops on writing as a path to healing when coping with the death of a loved one.

Carla received her Masters of Science degree with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  She lives in New York City and her website is www.carlafine.com.

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