Tom Davis is a 19-year journalist with The Record of Bergen County, N.J. who wrote "Coping" - one of the nation's only mental health columns - for five years. He was named "Citizen of the Year" in 2007 by the American Psychiatric Association's New Jersey chapter, and he received an ambassador award from the N.J. Governor's Council on Mental Health in 2008. He also covers New Jersey commuter issues and teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University and a groundbreaking course on mental health issues in the media at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. He was one of six people in the nation to win the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship in 2004. The father of three now edits, produces and writes for a blog called "Coping with Life," which deals with life, family and mental health issues. He’s also pursuing a masters degree in journalism at Columbia University.

Blog Entries by Tom Davis

Mental Illness, The Final Frontier

Posted May 29, 2008 | 10:42 AM (EST)


You may remember A Time to Kill, a 1996 movie from a John Grisham novel about a lawyer who took on a racist town. He defended a black man accused of murdering two white men after they raped his young daughter.

But the high drama came at the end --...

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