Sunday service includes a program by Springfield Psychiatrist Jeff Bennett and local author Rodd Whelpley. They will discuss Dorothea Dix and Sylvia Plath, two Unitarian women whose experiences with mental illness offer us models of creative compassion and empathy for the plight of people who struggle with inner turmoil. Dix was a social reformer for those with mental illness, and Plath, a poet who suffered from mental illness.
Seeking Asylum: Two Unitarian Women and
What They Taught Us about Mental Illness
Sunday, July 18, 10:30pm
Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist Congregation
745 Woodside Dr.
585-9550
Free
This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2010.
