Oxford University Press has published “Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World,” co-authored and edited by Western Washington University Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Dana C. Jack.

Dana Jack, a professor at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, will present information from her newly published, co-edited book from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, May 21, in Academic Instructional Center Room 304 on the WWU campus.

Jack's book, "Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World," includes 21 contributors from thirteen countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, India, Israel, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland and the United States.

Joseph Trimble (Psychology, WCE) with Maria Scharron-del Rio (Brooklyn College) and Guillermo Bernal (University of Puerto Rico) recently published a book chapter titled "The itinerant researcher: Ethical and methodological issues in conducting cross-cultural mental health research." The chapter appears in the edited book by Dana Crowley Jack (Fairhaven College) and Alisha Ali (NYU) titled "Cultural perspectives on women's depression: Self-silencing, psychological distress and recovery." The book is published by Oxford University Press.<