Our Man In Haiti, Part III
By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty Fifty years ago when I was 20 I did my anthropology fieldwork in Masson, named for the remains of an old French plantation. I would periodically take a...
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By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty Saturday came around fast. I had to stand up in front of local Haitian IMC clinic doctors and nurses, and talk for 5 hours about the psychosocial impact...
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By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty I was in a narrow muddy rutted road between tents when I saw a green steamroller, or maybe one of those big, bug-like French street sweepers, coming...
View ArticleOur Man in Haiti, Part VI
By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty The Mirogane Clinic Stephanie, my IMG Director, mentioned that we’d be switching my beloved mobile mental health clinics in the countryside back into the...
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By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty Tuesday 3/23 Mirogoane: Rendezvous with the Past Today I go to Mirogoane again. But first I need to bring you up to date on something. When I returned...
View ArticleVolunteering in Bosnia, September 2011, Part 1
by Sheri Rosenfeld, LICSW, LCSW-C Day 1: Sarajevo After a long day and night and day of travel, I have finally reached Sarajevo as part of a group of volunteers with Women for Women (WFW), an...
View ArticleVolunteering in Bosnia, September 2011, Part 2
by Sheri Rosenfeld, LICSW, LCSW-C Day 2: Sarajevo, evening Tonight our whole group finally came together with the six Bosnian heads of the WFW organization. My preconceived notion of the Muslim...
View ArticleVolunteering in Bosnia, September 2011, Part 3
by Sheri Rosenfeld, LICSW, LCSW-C Day 3: Zenica I want to start with this picture: In the morning we were driven to the WFW headquarters where we learned more about the war and what led to it, what it...
View ArticleVolunteering in Bosnia September 2011, Part 4
By Sheri Rosenfeld, LICSW, LCSW-C Day 6: Srebrenica Of all the days in this journey, this 12-hour period of time on the last day was the most memorable, disturbing, life changing, and eye opening. Our...
View ArticleKent Ravenscroft, Founding IPI Faculty Member, Wins Bruno Lima Award
Kent Ravenscroft, author of Haiti Fair Well, and Emeritus faculty of IPI, was selected by the Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters of the American Psychiatric Association to receive the...
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