Martha Manning

"All Seasons Pass: Grieving Miscarriage" is in development with CBS for a Sunday night movie with Pulitzer Prizewinner Beth Henley as screenwriter and director. Dr. Manning's newest book is "A Place to Land: Lost and Found in an Unlikely Friendship," a heartrending account of a satisfying personal relationship that helped her heal herself while helping someone else.

Dr. Manning's writing has been included in such anthologies as "Motherland: Writings on Motherhood by Irish American Women" and "Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression" and "Restoring Intimacy: A Couples' Guide to Intimacy in Depression." She received her BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland, and her MA and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Catholic University of Maryland. Following a two-year postdoctoral internship in clinical child psychology at McLean Hospital in Belmost, MA, she joined the faculty at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and began a private practice.

Dr. Manning currently writes full time and speaks nationally on issues related to mental illness. She was the 1996 recipient of the American Psychiatric Association's Presidential Award for patient advocacy. In 1999 she was named the recipient of the Stephen V. Logan Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) in recognition of psychologists "who have made outstanding contributions in the understanding of brain disorders." She has also been recognized by the National Institutes of Mental Health for work combating stigma. Her current clinical writing has appeared in the Psychotherapy Networker. She has published work in The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, Health, Glamour and New Woman Ladies' Home Journal. Her columns in the several social justice oriented Catholic magazines have garnered her the highest recognition in the Church Press. In the September 2001 ROSIE magazine, Dr. Manning interviewed and profiled Rosie O'Donnell, writer Meri Nana Ama Danquah, journalist Mike Wallace and his wife Mary, as well as singer Rosemary Clooney about their experiences with clinical depression. In addition, the section contained many information boxes as well as a resource tear-out page with recommended associations, brochures and books.

Manning has appeared on 60 Minutes II, NBC Dateline, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and the Emmy Award nominated HBO documentary "Dead Blue: Surviving Depression." She has been featured in People, USA Today, Women's Day and Town and Country.