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The Breakthrough Years

The Breakthrough Years

Living Well With Bipolar Disorder

Living Well With Bipolar Disorder

What's Eating Us

What's Eating Us

How Do You Feel?

How Do You Feel?

Sociopath: A Memoir

Sociopath: A Memoir

Staying Mentally Healthy Through the College Admissions Process and Transition to College Life

Staying Mentally Healthy Through the College Admissions Process and Transition to College Life

The State of Hate - Part 1

The State of Hate - Part 1

ADHD is Awesome

ADHD is Awesome

Stress Resets at Zibby's Bookshop

Stress Resets at Zibby's Bookshop

Profiles in Mental Health Courage

Profiles in Mental Health Courage

Age-Proof Brain

Age-Proof Brain

Project Unlonely

Project Unlonely

2024 Film Festival

2024 Film Festival

While You Were Out

While You Were Out

Helping Kids Choose Kindness

Helping Kids Choose Kindness

Girls On The Brink

Girls On The Brink

Junction

Junction

Stress Resets

Stress Resets

2024

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I Hate Myself

I Hate Myself

The Second Fifty

The Second Fifty

Open Mind Film Festival 2025

Open Mind Film Festival 2025

Social Anxiety

Healing The Modern Brain

Healing The Modern Brain

FALSE

FALSE

The Best Minds

The Best Minds

State of Hate - Hate and the Internet/Social Media

State of Hate - Hate and the Internet/Social Media

The Awakened Brain

The Awakened Brain

The State of Hate Pt. 2, Hate and Politics

The State of Hate Pt. 2, Hate and Politics

2025

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A Community Lecture & Film Series

Past Events

Open Mind Film Festival 2021

Bedlam

Tomboy

Aging In High Heels

Orchestrating Change

Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety

And Then They Stopped Talking To Me

Unwinding Anxiety

Pattern Seekers

Each And Every Day

Where Reason Ends

Exercised

The Rabbit Effect

Wiser

Hooked

Back To School Anxiety

Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?

This is Your Brain on Food

He Came In With It

Floating In The Deep End

How To Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes

The Empathy Diaries

The Body Keeps The Score

2021

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The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health

The Weight of Gold

Inside The Robe

Modern Madness

The Madwoman and the Roomba

Finding Meaning

The Power of Showing Up

Crazy is My Superpower

Empty

A New Reality

Parenting During the Pandemic

Hidden Valley Road

On Being Together Six Feet Apart

The Small Guide to Alzheimer's

Wildhood

2020

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Love on the Spectum

Untouchable

Bedlam

Healthy Brain, Happy Life

The Public

Cracked Up

Not Carol

Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance

55 STEPS

Turning Point

This is Your Brain on Music

Better With Age

Mental

Battlefield Home

INSANE

UCLA #WOW Wonder of Women 2019

Tomorrow Will Be Different

The Upward Spiral Workbook

2019

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Beautiful Boy

Far From the Tree

Requiem for a Running Back

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

#WOW Wonder of Women Summit

COCO

In Another Kind of Madness

Out of My Head

SNAP

No One Cares About Crazy People

More Beautiful Than Before

2018

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Monster in the Mind

TEDx UCLA SALON

The Power of Different

The Good Doctor

Thirteen Reasons Why

Open Mind Gala

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison

The Upward Spiral

Last Day of Freedom

One Minute of Happiness

2017

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How To Dance in Ohio

What Our Fathers Did

Jane Wants A Boyfriend

Evil Hours

Brain Storms

Inside Out

Food and Friends at Vibiana

Cry Havoc

2016

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The Road Within

The Well-Tuned Brain

Dr. Michael S. Gazzaniga

Scholar Reception 2015

Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D

Walking Man

Mania Days

Art and Craft

Great Minds Gala

Dr. David Miklowitz

Life Animated

Rocks in My Pockets

2015

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The ADHD Explosion

Olive Kitteridge

Hidden Pictures

Brainstorm

Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud To See

Food and Friends at Bouchon

Clean

Far From The Tree

2014

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Park Dietz

Park Dietz

Dr. David Freedberg

Dr. David Freedberg

The Science of Making Friends

The Science of Making Friends

Music and the Mind Gala

Music and the Mind Gala

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

2013

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Zoobiquity

Zoobiquity

Patti Davis

Patti Davis

Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

Dyslexia

Dyslexia

PTSD

PTSD

Healthy Aging

Healthy Aging

2012

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Bullying

Zoobiquity

ADHD

Zoobiquity

Magic and the Brain

Zoobiquity

Dr. Temple Grandin

Zoobiquity

2011

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Mindsight

Mindsight

The Politics of Mental Health

The Politics of Mental Health

We've Got Issues

We've Got Issues

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

Tim Page

Tim Page

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

2010

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Sanity & Grace

Sanity & Grace

College of the Overwhelmed

College of the Overwhelmed

Life in the Balance

Life in the Balance

Touched by Genius:

Touched by Genius:

Tweak and Beautiful Boy

Tweak and Beautiful Boy

Crazy

Crazy

Reprieves

Reprieves

2009

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The Soloist

The Soloist

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Twitch and Shout

Twitch and Shout

Dancing with Rose, Finding Life in The Land of Alzheimer’s

Dancing with Rose, Finding Life in The Land of Alzheimer’s

Canvas

Canvas

Detour

Detour

iBrain

iBrain

Today’s Man

Today’s Man

2008

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Unstrange Minds, Remapping the World of Autism

Unstrange Minds, Remapping the World of Autism

ART & ALZHEIMER’S - Portraits from the Mind

ART & ALZHEIMER’S - Portraits from the Mind

Larry Mantle

Larry Mantle

Salon ADHD

Salon ADHD

It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Salon Narcissism

Salon Narcissism

People Say I'm Crazy

People Say I'm Crazy

2007

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Snowcake

Snowcake

Dreamland

Dreamland

THIN

THIN

3rd Annual Shopping Day

3rd Annual Shopping Day

Salon
Teen Depression

Salon
Teen Depression

Salon
Coping with an Illness

Salon
Coping with an Illness

The Criminal Mind

The Criminal Mind

Salon Anxiety

Salon Anxiety

2006

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Annual Review of Psychiatry

Annual Review of Psychiatry

Salon
Eating Disorders

Salon
Eating Disorders

Fundraiser 2nd Annual Shopping Day

Fundraiser 2nd Annual Shopping Day

Salon
Women's Life Center

Salon
Women's Life Center

Salon
Psychoneuroimmunology

Salon
Psychoneuroimmunology

The Comedy of Revenge

The Comedy of Revenge

2005

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Salon Borderline Personality Disorder

Salon Borderline Personality Disorder

Salon The Neuropsychiatric Institute

Salon The Neuropsychiatric Institute

Shopping Day Fundraiser

Shopping Day Fundraiser

The Brain And Creativity

The Brain And Creativity

Salon Depression

Salon Depression

The Aviator Fundraiser

The Aviator Fundraiser

2004

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CURED

CURED

All That Is Bitter & Sweet

All That Is Bitter & Sweet

I Keep Trying To Catch His Eye

I Keep Trying To Catch His Eye

Just Like You

Just Like You

Salt In My Soul

Salt In My Soul

Burn Rate

Burn Rate

For You When I Am Gone

For You When I Am Gone

Struggle In Paradise

Struggle In Paradise

Still Just a Geek

Still Just a Geek

Gratitude Revealed

Gratitude Revealed

Yes! Your Child Can

Yes! Your Child Can

Healing

Healing

Getting Thru

Getting Thru

Dopamine Nation

Dopamine Nation

As We See It

As We See It

Of Sound Mind

Of Sound Mind

Good Anxiety

Good Anxiety

Open Mind Film Festival 2022

Open Mind Film Festival 2022

2022

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Growing Up In Public

Growing Up In Public

Fires In The Dark

Fires In The Dark

The Teen Mental Health Crisis

The Teen Mental Health Crisis

Walk Away To Win

Walk Away To Win

Stroke Prevention

Stroke Prevention

Normal Sucks

Normal Sucks

A Molecule Away From Madness

A Molecule Away From Madness

Stress Prescription

Stress Prescription

Commitment

Commitment

OUTSIDER

OUTSIDER

Psychedelics

Psychedelics

WOW2023

WOW2023

Open Mind Film Festival 2023

Open Mind Film Festival 2023

Fully Present

Fully Present

The Neuroscience of You

The Neuroscience of You

This Is What It Sounds Like

This Is What It Sounds Like

The Grieving Brain

The Grieving Brain

Platonic

Platonic

Anxious Nation

Anxious Nation

2023

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