Participant commentary from Alice Maher

Alice Lombardo Maher M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. She trained at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education Affiliated with NYU Medical Center. She is founder and director of Changing our Consciousness, a non-profit organization dedicated to communication across ideological divides, and Emotional Imprint, an emotional literacy program for middle and high school students. She is co-creator of the Hot Stove Project, dedicated to dialogue across mental health divides. She is working on a second documentary and a book on these topics.