Mental Illness and the Media

George Stephanopoulos, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton and now host of the ABC News program “This Week,” will participate in a compelling conversation concerning his personal struggle with depression, media portrayals of mental illness, and the politics of mental health at APA’s 2004 annual meeting. He will be the special guest at the American Psychiatric Foundation’s annual “Conversations Event,” which will be held Tuesday, May 4, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Millennium Hotel’s Hudson Theater. The program is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from AstraZeneca.

Stephanopoulos joined ABC News in 1997 as a news analyst and has since covered such stories as the 2000 presidential election, the escalation of violence in the Middle East, the events of September 11 and their aftermath, and the war on terrorism. He is the author of All Too Human, in which he wrote about President Clinton’s first term and the 1992 and 1996 Clinton/Gore campaigns. It was a a No. 1 New York Times best seller.

The Millennium Hotel is located at 145 West 44th Street, just off Times Square.