Guns and Mental Illness

Paul Appelbaum, MD Director, Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, 
Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia University

The discussion will include:

• The relationship between mental illness and gun violence

• Current approaches to keeping guns away from some people with mental illness

• More effective approaches to adopt in the future to reduce rate of violence, especially gun violence in our society

Contact information for Dr. Appelbaum

http://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/research/Law-Ethics-Psychiatry

psa21@columbia.edu.

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