2024-11-23T18:38:27-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/134889035/mindy-thompson-fullilove-is-a-psychiatrist-for-cities Nam Henderson 2015-08-22T21:47:00-04:00 >2015-08-22T21:50:30-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ns/ns7e0psjcb1st7wa.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Fullilove increasingly came to see cities as ecosystems, with streams and channels, one flowing unseen into the next, disruptions wreaking havoc, threatening vitality everywhere. In a 1999 article in The International Journal of Mental Health, she showed federal urban renewal policies to be a fundamental cause of disease</p></em><br /><br /><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/lj/ljjqr4pmuvymioox.jpg"></p><p>Robert Sullivan profiles&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/mf29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mindy Thompson Fullilove</a>. Trained as a psychiatrist, she studies the links between the environment and mental health and adapted the&nbsp;concept of "<a href="http://www.rootshock.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">root shock</a>" from gardening, which she applied to her studies of urban planning/policy and community psychology.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/pe/peia8dyqto6v35xj.jpg"></p>