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“The Conscience of Psychiatry” 2009 – Number 1 ______What’s Inside: A Letter From Peter and Ginger

Peter and Ginger Breggin: Breggin to the ICSPP Membership

Membership Comments Tired of making contributions to  A discount at the annual conference. Thank You, Dom Riccio! organizations that you cannot fully trust? Tired of making investments that bring And – FREE WITH YOUR MEM- no return and loot your savings? BERSHIP – the first biography of Peter Paying Tribute to Our Breggin. It’s called The Conscience of Outgoing Director When you pay your membership Psychiatry: A Biography of Peter R. dues to ICSPP you can be sure that every Breggin, M.D. Seventy brand new indi- New Member Contributions: penny will be used to promote one of the vidual contributions describe how Peter, most important causes in the world – Ginger and ICSPP transformed their per- protecting children, adults, families, and sonal and professional lives, and the his- Meet Linda and Heather society from psychiatric abuse and op- tory or our field. Innumerable media pression, while offering more caring and quotes spanning more fifty years and doz- Arts and Leisure Section: effective alternatives. And you get a tax ens of additional commentaries provide deduction! further documentation. (Independent researchers and experts have reported that Essays and Poems Every penny will support real re- the book is very interesting and entirely form activities and not a single penny true.) A big hardback at more than five 2009 Conference: will go toward salaries for the wholly hundred pages, The Conscience of Psy- volunteer leadership. chiatry is a great deal at … no cost at all to Call for Papers - Pg. 3 you. Each new and renewed regular mem- You also get some great personal bership will bring you a copy. Registration Form - Pg. 22 benefits: Ginger and I love ICSPP. We are  The journal, Ethical Human Psy- enormously grateful to Dominick Riccio Newsletter Staff: chology and Psychiatry. Under new for leading it with so much devotion, hard editorship, it’s more interesting and work and grace. We are delighted that important than ever to the world. Toby Tyler Watson has agreed to take the Andrew Crosby, MA torch from Dominick’s hand. Now it’s up Editor  The ICSPP newsletter – brilliantly to you to pay your dues, for yourself, for written, genuinely engaging. the movement, that you believe in, and for society. Please use the enclosed Delores Jankovich, MA,  The Discussion Group listserv membership form (page 30) and enve- LMSW where we get down and dirty about lope, or use our website, www.icspp.org. Co-editor the daily stuff that really matters in our field. Ask how you can join the Thanks. Discussion Group at no additional ______cost. Peter and Ginger Breggin

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2 CALL FOR PAPERS DIFFICULT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: UNDERSTANDING INSTEAD OF DIAGNOSING, AND EVIDENCE BASED INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORT INSTEAD OF MEDICATIONS

Twelfth Annual Conference of the INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY, INC. (ICSPP) in collaboration with It’s About Childhood & Family Inc.

Syracuse, New York – Friday, October 9th- Saturday 10th, 2009 Renaissance Syracuse Hotel, 701 East Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY 13210

Focusing On: 1. Successful Alternatives to Pediatric Psychopharmacology

2. The "Science" and Practice of Pediatric Psychopharmacology

3. Historical perspective of failed mental health system and future directions

Presentations & Panel Discussions: 45-60 minutes. Please indicate if you are willing to participate in a panel discussion in lieu of an independent presentation.

Awards: Graduate students receive a 50% discount on registration & $250 for Best Student Presentation. Past-Current Psychiatric User: $500 prize for Best Presentation from Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

Past Participants: Academic and educational researchers, best selling science writers and authors, psychologists, social workers, students, medical practitioners, lawyers, and members of the public. The majority of attendees find the annual conferences “the most stimulating, useful, educational, intellectually challenging and friendly” conferences they have attended.

Presentations may include, among other topics: Treatment outcome reviews and meta-analysis of differing child therapeutic approaches. Surveys and descriptions of past, existing or planned child non-drug treatment programs. Comparative reviews of the efficacy of drug, non-drug and cumulative treatment approaches or programs for children. Critical evaluation of the research related to:

Pediatric psychopharmacology- general, Medicaid and foster care comparisons Non-drug approaches: 123 Magic, Caregiver’s Skills Program (CSP), Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA), etc… Mental health screening- pregnant women, new mothers, and children & youth. Considerations pertaining to a teacher’s or school’s, social worker’s, therapist’s, police officer’s role in a child’s mental health treatment. Review of the psychological and medical impact of both psychotropic and psychological interventions.

Accepted Presentations: Eligible for publication in peer-reviewed Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Critical Inquiry. Presenters are responsible for: registration and travel costs.

CEU credits will be awarded for accepted presentations separately submitted and approved for that purpose. (Continued on page 4) 3

Submission of Abstracts 12th Annual ICSPP Conference Syracuse

Your presentation must include the following elements:

1. Oral presentation, seminar or poster. Indicate if you would be willing to participate on a panel instead of an individual presentation.

2. Title of presenter: Dr., Prof., Mr., Mrs., Ms., no title

3. Last name, First name, Initial

4. Highest academic degree

5. Affiliation

6. Full mailing address

7. Telephone and Fax

8. Email

9. Title of presentation

10. Aims and contents of presentation (for inclusion in program handbook: do not exceed 150 words.)

11. Biography of presenter (for inclusion in program handbook: name, profession, experience, interests, accomplishments – do not exceed 80 words)

12. Audiovisual aids required

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Send by email as Word attachment only to: [email protected] Deadline for Submission April 30, 2009 For more information contact: [email protected]

For more than three decades ICSPP (www.icspp.org), a nonprofit, 501(c), has been providing research, educational services and networking to professionals and lay persons throughout the world. ICSPP’s annual conferences serve as unique thought provoking forums to exchange critical ideas about the impact of contemporary mental health ideologies, practices and interventions on personal and community values and clinical outcomes, and serve to disseminate models of therapeutic intervention that disavow all coercion and the compromise of ethics, rational- ity and scientific principles.

4 New Member Contributions

As we said in our last issue, Andrew Levine put a great deal of work into revamping the ICSPP website a while back. He made us look so good, in fact, that it has attracted more than a few new members, some of whom have responded to invitations to reach out to Newsletter Headquarters to share some thoughts with all of us. We’re happy to oblige.

As always, we love to hear from all our members, whether new, old, or very old, so please don’t be shy. Just reach out to Delores or me at Newsletter HQ via our contact info on the inside of the back page. Contributions, questions, or suggestions are always welcome.

Thank you. The Editor

And now, a few words from a couple of our newest members.

He then prescribed lithium, and I The Guinea Pig's Report felt remarkably better within 2 days. I think now that it just anesthetized me By Linda Fugate from the effects of the other drugs. I stayed on it a few months and felt “comfortably numb”, to quote from the song, until my thyroid function went I'm a scientist as well as a guinea myself before anyone else would help down. pig, so I usually focus on the technical me. Then the big experiment began. details of psychotropic drug depend- The loneliness was agonizing. So Dr. Smith gave me a starter kit for ency and withdrawal. But I recognize I relented and saw a doctor. This turned Lamictal, with little pills to take for that the human issues are just as impor- into a saga of four doctors and ten four weeks. I took it home and just tant. drugs. Most of the drugs had side ef- looked at it. Another four weeks of nau- I'll call my third psychiatrist Dr. fects so awful that I refused to take sea, fatigue, and overall misery? No, I Smith. On my first visit, he said, “I will them for more than a few days: Prozac, couldn't do it. I went back the next find something that makes you feel Paxil, Wellbutrin, and Effexor. I per- week and explained that I couldn't stand better.” I was astounded to hear such a sisted for a few months with Serzone another round of starting up a new commitment. Later he assured me, and a few weeks with Zoloft, chasing drug. He said oh no, Lamictal is differ- “Don't worry, it's very safe; it's a low the promise that I would feel better if I ent. “It doesn't make you sick.” He in- dose.” “There are no side effects! We put up with the flu-like symptoms long sisted the small pills were just a precau- don't have to check any lab tests.” And enough. tion against Stevens-Johnson syndrome, most ominous: “I promise I won't get I have a Ph.D. in Physics and a a life-threatening skin condition that you addicted on 10 mg of Valium per master's degree in Macromolecular starts with a mild rash. If any rash de- day.” Science, so I avidly read the theories of velops on the small pills, Lamictal must All I did was get divorced. I was neurotransmitter deficiency. Dr. Smith be discontinued. Otherwise, he assured not a homicidal maniac wreaking havoc responded with enthusiasm to my inter- me, Lamictal is perfectly benign. on the public. And I resisted the urging est in pharmacological technology. I The FDA files tell a different of my family and friends to go get a felt that he genuinely cared about me. story. Long after that fateful appoint- prescription for antidepressants. I said And the breakthrough in my treatment ment with Dr. Smith, I requested the no, it doesn't help to take drugs when came in a 5:30 pm appointment when reports of adverse events following you're normal, and it's normal to feel he re-diagnosed me as Bipolar Type 2. I Lamictal treatment, under the Freedom depressed about losing someone you was receptive to the diagnosis because of Information Act. The FDA sent me a love. But they persisted. They told me I he was working late, and he related the computer CD with 15,426 complaints. had to do everything I could to help diagnosis to my creative abilities. The cost was $61. Anyone can get the

5 reports on any drug, following the in- psychotherapy. To deal with the sore der protest, I went back to a small formation on the FDA web site at muscles, I increased my Valium con- dose of Valium and tapered off for http://www.fda.gov/opacom/ sumption to the full prescription dose of five months. Then I wanted to know backgrounders/foiahand.html. 10 mg. During this year, I always took what else Dr. Smith's treatment was Over the seven years I took the pills at bedtime. They seemed to doing to me. I insisted on a prescrip- Lamictal, the most obvious side effect help my muscle tension at first, but I tion for small Lamictal pills, so I could was muscle tension and pain. But I did- never escaped the neck pain. And I taper off properly. n't realize it came from the drug. I have sank into depression. I diligently fol- Dr. Smith gave me the 25-mg a neck injury from gymnastics in col- lowed my therapist's advice to develop Lamictal pills under protest. I spent lege, and I thought I was just getting new interests, activities, and friends. the next five months very carefully worse with age. Dr. Smith always en- And I felt worse and worse. I com- reducing the dosage by 25 mg at a couraged me to get plenty of exercise. plained to Dr. Smith, and he told me I time. When I got down to 50 mg, I Shortly after getting on Lamictal, I needed more drugs. Familiar story, thought I was almost home free. So I complained that my muscles “seized right? For a while I took lithium in ad- cut the 25-mg pills in half and took up” whenever I did enough exercise to dition to the Lamictal and Valium. half a pill every six hours, then get even mildly sore. My massage stretched out the time between pills. I therapists complained too. They said went down from 50 mg to zero my muscles felt like concrete. Dr. Lamictal in one week. Smith prescribed Valium as a muscle “I discontinued Valium withdrawal is hell, and relaxant, with great assurances that 10 Lamictal withdrawal is super hell. For mg per day was too low to cause any Valium another four months after I got off harm. Lamictal, the symptoms decreased I think most people like to do very gradually. I researched with- what they know how to do. Dr. Smith immediately. Three drawal symptoms extensively, and knows how to write prescriptions, and found that most authors recommend a he had the perfect set-up with me. He days later I had a very long tail to the taper. I got fed up prescribed Valium to treat the side ef- with the daily migraines, so I went to fects of Lamictal. And the Valium seizure in the my pain management doctor and caused a visceral feeling of depression, asked for a prescription for 5-mg which convinced me that I never fully clinic.” Lamictal pills to treat migraines. He recovered from my divorce. So he discussed options, and then agreed. I wrote prescriptions for Lamictal to treat took half a pill per day for a month, the side effects of Valium. then a quarter pill per day for another I enjoyed those 15-minute visits Then I decided that the neck pain month. The strategy worked. The mi- with Dr. Smith once every three was wearing me down enough to im- graines decreased to a manageable months. He was intelligent and upbeat. pede my progress in psychotherapy. So point. I could answer his checklist in 30 sec- I looked in the phone book and chose a I also developed the Lamictal onds: appetite, sleep, exercise, social pain management clinic near my home. rash, which is clearing up now. activities, writing. Yes, they were all On the first visit, my new doctor GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of fine. Then I had 14 and a half minutes showed me the bone fragments on my Lamictal, warns that the drug should to talk to a doctor about anything else neck x-rays, which were taken two never be re-started in anyone who has that came to mind: foot care, bird flu, or years earlier. The radiologist called ever had the rash, because of the pos- the philosophical theory of conscious- them “unremarkable”, and my primary sibility of “life-threatening or perma- ness. He gave me more attention than care physician failed to diagnose any- nently disabling or disfiguring” skin any other doctor up to that time. So I thing wrong. That's another long story disorders. trusted him. in itself. So far I've survived 17 months of I assumed Valium wore off in The pain management doctor di- drug withdrawal. And the symptoms about four hours, like typical over-the- agnosed me with nerve irritation, and are still hell. Maybe I should have counter drugs. For about 4 years, I usu- proposed a series of procedures. He tapered slower; I don't know. But I ally took one (5 mg) pill at night, hop- explained that he doesn't recommend certainly can't go back and try it again. ing that my muscles would get a nice Valium for this type of pain, because GlaxoSmithKline recently posted rest while I slept. I thought I was free of even though it does relax the muscles, it the results of a study showing that Valium during the day. Much later, I also increases nerve sensitivity to pain. Lamictal is no better than placebo for found out Valium and its active me- I was horrified. I discontinued Bipolar Disorder Type 2, which was tabolite have a half-life of about a week Valium immediately. Three days later, I my diagnosis. So all this hell has been in the blood stream. So all that time, I had a seizure in the pain management for absolutely nothing. was constantly and unknowingly clinic during preparations for a corti- I stick with my original claim drugged on a controlled substance. sone injection. that I was normal when I felt de- My fifth year of Valium was the My psychotherapist pointed out pressed about my divorce. And I was revelation. I started an ambitious self- that I was exhibiting Valium with- socially healthy enough to ask for help improvement program of exercise and drawal symptoms at my next visit. Un- from people I trusted: family, friends, 6 and the medical profession. For this, I our doctors really offer? first massage therapist. She said, “You was poisoned. need more than a massage. I want to Drug companies usually get the all refer you to a chiropractor.” The rest the blame for psychotropic drug de- said, “You just haven't stayed with my pendency, as if doctors are innocent “It takes treatment long enough.” lambs who have no other source of in- Dr. David Healy suggested, purely formation. I think it's time to re- persuasion by a as a thought experiment, that antidepres- evaluate who's responsible for medical sants would be safer if they were avail- education. Roche Pharmaceuticals, for trusted advisor to able over-the-counter. His main concern example, tells us what Valium can do was antidepressant-induced suicide. He as a muscle relaxant, but it does not tell make us continue reports that some patients feel worse on us about the options for physical ther- antidepressants from the first dose, but apy, chiropractic, acupuncture, mas- swallowing their doctors push them to continue, and sage, stretching, yoga, ice packs, hot these are the ones at most risk of suicide. packs, capsaicin, anti-inflammatories, poison.” Consumers ordinarily stop taking any- cortisone injections, or thermocoagula- thing that makes us feel worse. It takes tion of the cervical nerves. I found all persuasion by a trusted advisor to make these for myself. I don't think it was We hope they offer good judg- us continue swallowing poison. Roche's job to tell me about them. I do ment. Before my experience with The human side of my story is think it was Dr. Smith's job. Lamictal and Valium, I assumed I did- trust. I learned that we can't trust our With direct-to-consumer market- n't have to check everything my doctors doctors with our health. We have to do ing, a patient can easily get as much told me. I know better now. our own research and make our own drug information as a doctor. The pre- Dr. Smith is not the only one at decisions. Each individual doctor is just scribing information is available on the fault here. Over the years, I had dozens one source of information, and some are Internet. With enough dedication, a of health care professionals treat me for more useful than others. I am now pon- patient can also find information on neck pain. Almost all of them told me dering what a license to practice medi- surgical options, psychotherapy, physi- that what I needed was what they knew cine really means. cal therapy, and nutrition. So what do how to do. The one exception was my ****************

A Note of Thanks & Encouragement By Heather G. Patenaude

I feel grateful to this outstanding crazy or mentally ill. We have ration- ill. We have stopped saying that we group of people that speak up for alized this crazy or mentally ill label are under doctor's care because doc- those labeled with mental illness. to its extreme absolute value. Now tor's don't care anymore; they just What would the world do without anything that does not suit purposes treat. And the true question is how do these individuals who are helping to for those not labeled mentally ill has they treat. How are they treating their persuade the mindset of people con- become irrational which is translated patients? With a lack luster desire to cerning psychiatry and psychother- as mentally ill. The Diagnostic Statis- find remedies to their personal prob- apy? Or more plainly stated, what tics Manual has found every which lems. Caring is just the opposite. would the world be like without way to describe those that are different Caring provides support in areas ICSPP Board of Directors and mem- as in need of medical treatment. The where the individual lacks the author- bers? I believe this community of only people I can see which have es- ity or power to change relationships or people who have banded together have caped the turmoil of being labeled problems in their life. The medical effectively stated their case for the mentally ill are the extremely abusive model that a pill will provide the misuse of power and damaging effects people (especially domestic violent change the individual needs to foster of psychotropic drugs. cases) and those doing the labeling of better relationships or propagate solu- Very few have escaped the name who is mentally ill. The rest of us have tions to problems has no basis in real- calling, discrediting, or destroying been set up for necessary treatment ity. effects the over usage of diagnosing needed for containment of our back- On the other hand, treatment people has had. We have become a wards behavior. protocols allow the doctors to stretch world where the unexplainable behav- I find no compassion in the the meaning of what it means to be a ior or misunderstood person always "treatment" protocols used by the patient. A patient must be exactly falls into the easiest category which is medical model of helping the mentally that- patient. As the old saying goes,

7 patience is a virtue, my friend. Ah, and the doctors' never feel safe or comfort- strong enough to stand up against the when a patient is patient there is usually able to stop treatment or stop supervis- carnivorous nature of psychiatry. I tip suffering during the time period which ing a patient. Why not you might ask? my hat to ALL of them that are still the patient is waiting for the pills to be Well, you see the very treatment or care standing. the solution to his or her problem. provided by the doctor ensures that As a psychiatric survivor that still However, in the mental health field more behavior problems will arise. The has to take the prescription drugs and scenario, the solution, remedy or end long, long list of side effects to medica- endure needless suffering daily, I remain never comes. How clever for the doc- tion provides the path for the journey to hopeful that ICSPP will overcome every tor to state that there is no cure for the continue and the patient to be even mentally ill? Therefore, treatment can more patient. Patience is a virtue but, hindrance. For the people of this coun- continue with no end because being abuse is abuse. Long suffering is a fruit try and other countries need ICSPP to mentally ill is a journey. How far does of the spirit according to the Bible but be as triumphant as possible, in order to the patient need to journey into the pain still hurts. Where did the doctors' stop the needless suffering of children world of prescription drugs? Or should care empower him or her to extend the and adults. It is my prayer that public I say how long does the patient need to timetable of suffering instead of shorten awareness about ICSPP efforts will con- be patient while the suffering treatment it? The answer can be found in the tinue to rise, financial resources will of the medical model continues? phrase "the patient is undergoing treat- At this point, you can see why the ment for his or her mental illness". come to them, every enemy will be de- ethical nature of the supervision of doc- This money making ability to ex- feated, and no one will ever be able to tor's care does need to be put in ques- tend the timetable of suffering under take away your namesakes. tion. Where and when does the doctor the guise of the medical model for the ever feel comfortable enough to stop treatment of the mentally ill is precisely "treatment" or care for the patient who why we should be eternally grateful demonstrating patience. The answer is that there does exist a group of people ****************

The Passing

Like the passing of the torch On an arduous journey The light left the other side And lit the side of love. A triumphant feat. Where rejection built the wall Truth let the shadow fall behind And love became the door.

- Delores Jankovich

8 The Special Thank You, Dominick Riccio Section

Dominick (right, with the mullet) with his second in command, Lloyd Ross, at our 2004 conference. (Photo: Robert Sliclen)

As he was getting along ping down from his post ef- Dominick for his many years in years, former British fective June 1st. of service. Second, we wel- Prime Minister Winston We are happy to report come his successor, Dr. Toby Churchill took an active part that Dominick is in good Tyler Watson. Third, we in planning his own funeral. health, and isn’t even all that support Toby, and continue Consistent with his unique old. Moreover, he is sure to the important work of wit, Churchill code named be vital to ICSPP for years to ICSPP. the endeavor Operation: come. Still, this is a signifi- This Special Section is Hope Not. cant development. So, con- all about Part One, as noted Well, as we shared with sistent with my unique wit, I above. Dom is a big guy; he you in our last issue, have code named this matter deserves, and he has earned, ICSPP’s Executive Director, Operation: Whoa, Who Saw a big thank you. And the Dominick Riccio, announced That Coming? Newsletter plans to give him to the group at our 2008 con- We have a simple three- one. ference that he will be step- part strategy: First, we thank So, here we go ...

9 Dom’s Friends Speak Out

In Appreciation of Dominick Riccio By Peter R. Breggin, M.D. Founder and Director Emeritus of ICSPP

At the last board meeting of ICSPP in October 2008, our international director, Dominick Riccio, announced his intention to resign and to arrange an or- derly transition to a new leadership. Toby Tyler Watson was elected the new international director. I search for words sufficient to express my gratitude for Dominick’s inspired efforts over the past seven years. Once in a while, a person comes along who makes an enormous difference at a critical time in the life of an important organization. There is no other organization that provides the function of ICSPP in bringing together courageous, ethical, reform-minded human-service oriented professionals from around the world. In a profound sense, Dominick (right) with Larry Simon in 2005. there is ICSPP—and then there is the (Photo: Robert Sliclen) psychopharmaceutical complex, including the American Psychiatric Associa- torch was while it was still burning dedication to the organization, he enjoys tion, the American Medical Association brightly and while we were fully able a sense of humor, even about himself. and even non-medical organizations like to help with the transition. From Indeed, the volunteers he has assembled the American Psychological Association among the many marvelous profes- around him sometimes seem to get their and the National Association of Social sionals who participate in ICSPP, we “reward” as payback from teasing him. Workers. There are a few other profes- selected Dominick to become director Dare I say, a little like children with a sionally oriented groups that also at- of the organization and received the parent? tempt to promote caring, psychological approval of the Board of the Directors. He has great wisdom, shares it gen- services; but not one of them has found Keep in mind that Dominick erously, and on several occasions I have the courage and tenacity required to took the job knowing that he would benefited myself from turning to him for stand up to the power of the drug compa- never be paid a dime for his hard work advice and guidance. He has been an nies and the medical model. Only in this and that indeed, like all of us who unfailing source of sound ethics and context can we fully understand and ap- have been involved in running ICSPP, good sense. preciate Dominick Riccio’s contribution he would end up spending his own Dominick has the admirable ability in leading ICSPP. resources. Taking a leadership posi- at critical times to care more about the Here’s how Dominick came to lead tion in ICSPP is truly a labor of love organization than about his own needs our organization. In 2002, my wife Gin- and, and like most love relationships, and aspirations. Time and again he has ger and I decided that we needed to cut sometimes a source of heartache. exercised his personal skills to handle back on some of our more stressful ac- Dominick has experienced it all. difficult conflicts among members. tivities. Although in good health and Dominick is a rare combination From the journal EHPP to the annual nowhere near ready to retire, I was get- of therapist and successful business- conferences he has often had to step in to ting a bit older and wanted to free up man, and an equally rare combination take responsibility to make sure that more time for writing, enjoying nature, of sensitivity and responsibility. things got done. He has successfully and other activities. Although now in Many therapists have enough trouble maintained the integrity and high ethical good health, Ginger was struggling with figuring out how to manage their own standards of the organization. some physical difficulties that limited office-bound lives; Dominick lives Managing a bunch of independent her key contributions to ICSPP. We also large and successfully in the world. A and reform-minded mental health profes- believed that the best time to pass the man who brings a sober and serious sionals is not so much like herding cats

10 as it is like urging a stampede of wild Lewis, Larry Simon and Jeff Danco. membership. Those who have been ponies in one direction or another. It can Together, they have made Dominick’s silenced by drugs, electroshock, psy- be done, but not without a lot of determi- leadership a success. The organization chosurgery, and involuntary treatment nation and stamina, courage, and a few remains strong and vital, the confer- would thank you as well, if they could. well-handled confrontations with other ences are as exciting as ever, and the Many of those who have found better stallions. journal is thriving. Dominick and his and more human alternatives owe their A strong and extremely energetic support team have accomplished this opportunity to you. When the history leader, Dominick has understood how to despite the growing dominion of the of psychiatric reform is written, you’ll share responsibilities with a crew of psychopharmaceutical complex over be there as one man who made a huge hardworking dedicated professional vol- everything that goes on in the field of difference. unteers including Lloyd Ross, Andrew mental health. Levine, Andrew Crosby, Robert Sliclen, Thanks Dominick. Thanks from ***************** Crisilda Rucci, Phil Tenaglia, Geraldine Ginger and me, and from the entire

Dom adjusting a micro- phone for Bert Karon, also at the 2005 conference.

(Photo: Robert Sliclen)

OUR FEARLESS LEADER, DOMINICK RICCIO, PH.D. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EXTRODINAIRE, ICSPP

By Lloyd Ross, Ph.D.

I’d like to talk about Dominick Ric- all out with carefully documented re- moment, the Northeast Regional Chap- cio, but first I have to preface it. I’m not search. ter of ICSPP was formed. Dominick very good with dates, but it was spring- I saw the application and phone was the driving force in organizing us, time before the Second Annual ICSPP number of ICSPP in the book, called, and we began to meet monthly, alter- International Conference in Bethesda. and spoke to Peter and Ginger. I joined nating between his office in New York My daughter, Holli, was doing a lot of and was invited to attend the October and my office in New Jersey. We had reading in psychology and came across conference in Bethesda. I also started members make case presentations, give Peter Breggin’s book, “Toxic Psychiatry.” to talk with my colleagues in New Jer- talks about drugs and other aspects of She said to me: “Dad, this guy is saying sey, and before I realized it, we had a the field, and also ways that we could the same things that you say about the small contingent of people heading for help Peter and Ginger with the work of problems with psychiatric medications. the conference, including my daughter. ICSPP. We even volunteered to host Do you know him?” I didn’t. However, When we arrived we immediately several of the ICSPP conferences and she gave me the book and I was amazed. met a small group of people from New proceeded to work on rounding up new My view was based upon a gut feeling York, including Dominick, and the two members. and my experiences with people on these of us pushed to get the group together That’s how I got to know medications, but Peter’s book spelled it when we got back home. As of that Dominick. He was dynamic, a great 11 Dom chats with Jim Gott- stein between sessions at the 2006 conference in Queens, New York.

(Photo: Robert Sliclen)

organizer, innovator, and a “get things active opponent of psychiatric drugging ating for hotel space in Newark, New done” guy who inspired the rest of us to and biopsychiatric interventions. He has Jersey for the best rates, I went with work just as hard. Dominick also turned been on radio and T.V. numerous times, Dominick. I watched this master nego- out to be one of the real good guys in the often to educate the public, and two tiator and businessman play the hotels field, and my wife, Susan, and I as well years ago, he started the “Just Say Know back and forth against each other. I have as my daughter Holli, found ourselves To Drugs” campaign, which stresses that been around a while and am not naïve. very close to this genuine human being. people should question their physician However, I was in awe of this man’s He is, what we call in the New York – regarding potential side effects whenever negotiating skills, and we ended up with New Jersey vernacular, “a real mench.” a drug is prescribed. He has also pro- an incredible deal at the Robert Treat Dominick Riccio is also a man of duces his own radio show. Hotel for the conference that year. all seasons, a modern day Michelangelo. Dominick has also been a supervi- There are very few people who I Dominick is a professional rare coin sor and training analyst at various psy- would follow without question. One expert and a professional stamp expert choanalytic institutes and was the co- was Colonel and a collector of both. In addition, he founder and clinical director of Encoun- David Hackworth, my old commanding has a hands on interest in watercolor and ter, Inc., a prototype drug rehabilitation officer in the Army. The other is Dr. has done some watercolor painting. In program for adolescents. He has also Dominick the business field, this versatile gentle- been in a three decade private practice in Riccio. man at one point owned a large pasta Manhattan. company and factory and is to this day When Peter Breggin decided to Dominick, on behalf of all the involved in real estate. retire as the Executive Director of Northeast Regional ICSPP members, the As well as being involved in all of ICSPP, there was some talk about the ICSPP Board of Directors, the List-Serv these other interests and more, Dominick Center closing its doors. Dominick and Advisory Group, and any other ICSPP is also one of the most thoroughly the folks at the Northeast Regional members who knows you directly, we all trained psychologist-psychoanalysts on Group decided we couldn’t let that hap- feel fortunate to have had the pleasure of the planet. He was trained, supervised, pen and Dominick was recruited to take working under your leadership, and we and analyzed by the famous Hyman Peter’s place as Executive Director. All all look forward to continuing to work Spotnitz, the father of Direct (Modern) of us at the Northeast Regional Group with you at ICSPP and at the Northeast Psychoanalysis and he is the past presi- agreed that whatever support he needed, Regional Branch. dent of The Association of Modern Psy- he would get from us. choanalysis. He is also the past vice- Dominick Riccio was appointed as Perhaps the best way I can sum it president of the Society For Modern the Executive Director of ICSPP and up is ... Psychoanalysis as well as the founder almost immediately, our conferences in and executive director of the Institute New York, Florida, Washington, Cali- “We love you, big guy!” For The Treatment and Research of Psy- fornia, Newark, and Chicago became chosomatic Disorders. Dominick has chock full of workshops and plenary Warmly, been an aggressive proponent of psycho- sessions. This man also single handedly Lloyd social solutions to emotional problems turned a profit for ICSPP even when it throughout his career and has been an wasn’t expected. When we were negoti-

12 A few more Northeast Group People Speak Out

man became more apparent even as my standing PR skills and Toby, you've Jeff Danco, Psy.D. own insight expanded. got your work cut out for you! Put aside the untold unpaid hours At a recent regional meeting I he has devoted to keeping this organiza- sensed a definite and palpable tension tion afloat, and indeed helping it among us: how can this organization In my nearly 54 years on planet grow. He has imparted a wonderful im- continue without him at the helm? To Earth, I have encountered few people petus, a swagger if you will, a moral me that says far more about Dom than indeed who, like fine wine, get better imperative that has helped me have cour- it does about Toby, a young, passion- with age, with repeated expo- age I simply would have lacked other- ate, and gifted psychologist in his own sure. Dominick Riccio is one such per- wise in my own working out of a role in right. son. the reform movement. So in that sense I join with everyone who com- Initially I misjudged him as con- Dominick is such a gifted en-courager in mends Dominick for his faithful and trolling and overbearing in his manage- the Adlerian sense of helping others fantastic service over many years on ment of the Northeast Regional meetings back off of felt inferiority and doubt. behalf of us, our patients, the profes- of ICSPP. In time his style came across It sounds so trite to say he is wel- sion, and the culture at large. And I to me as far more flexible and engag- coming and friendly and a peacemaker, know all of us hope he remains as ing. Why the change? It was my stuff, but indeed he is, and our new leader will active as possible in whatever way he my own insecurity and doubts about how have to have some of the same if he is to sees fit. I fit in with this pretty tight group and its hold this band of professional egos to- strong leader. The basic qualities of the gether. Add to that energy and out- ****************

Phil Tenaglia, M.A.

My first introduction to Dom took place at the 2002 Conference in Newark, New Jersey. I had known about ICSPP for a couple of years, but this was my first exposure. Like most members I instantaneously felt at home with like- minded folks from diverse backgrounds. Running the show was this big Italian guy named Dom. I was impressed with his ability to keep things organized and running smoothly. Late in the conference he gave a talk entitled “The Family As A Psychosocial Solution.” As a practicing family therapist, Dom was music to my ears. I joined ICSPP on the spot. Since that time I have been fortunate to call him my friend and colleague. It has been my good luck to be able to be part of the Northeast ICSPP Group for the past seven years. Dom has presided over this motley crew with author- Dom fields questions at the 2006 conference in New York. ity, humor and compassion. He has been (Photo: Kermit Cole) tireless in his efforts to push the mission

13 of ICSPP forward. “Do not be afraid to make strong statements” has been one of his credos. His 2006 talk at the NJ Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis began with “ADHD is a bogus diagnosis!” which was followed by lots of psychoanalytic folk fidgeting in their seats. He also led the charge up Capital Hill in ‘07 and into the offices of our congressmen and sena- tors.

I reacted with a mixture of surprise and understanding when I heard about his decision to step down. Dom has led by example, love and hard work. He will be passing the torch into Toby’s capable hands and staying on to fight the good fight. Just like the families he has treated over the years he embod- ies the mission of “ICSPP as the Psychosocial Solution” to the suffering caused by a culture promoting drugs over healing and understand- Dom with Robert Sliclen, our membership director and ing. main photographer, at the 2004 conference.

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never missed a northeast meeting (at a creative fashion. We’re not easy to Geraldine Lewis, M.A. least none that I attended) and is al- manage, and I suspect we got comfort- ways running around at the annual able at times, taking your efforts for conference making sure everything is granted, and not always recognizing I first met Dominick around 5 running smoothly (no easy feat, as I that your tact and decision making were years ago when I decided to attend have learned from working at the reg- the results of your skills and experi- an ICSPP Northeast meeting istration desk!) ence. You kept us engaged and moti- (actually I may have met him briefly vated, and you stayed with us, leading, at the Newark conference prior to Yes - he will be a hard act to guiding, and occasionally giving us a that). I am always impressed by follow once he steps down from his shove. You’ve brought us a very long someone who does full time work current post. Thanks for the inspira- way, indeed. and then still has time to take on tion Dominick! Next, a more personal comment: such things as being International Thank you, Dom, for the newsletter. Director of ICSPP. **************** About three years ago you had a sense I might be the person for the job. The This is a man who is really newsletter has been important to me; committed to the cause! I thought Andrew Crosby, M.A. that it is my way of participating and here's another person who probably contributing to ICSPP is only half the just lives and breathes his work and story. But you know that already, don’t has no time for anything else in This won’t take long; there is no you? life. How wrong I was! As I got to need to repeat what others have said Enjoy your free time, Dom. En- know Dominic more through attend- so beautifully. I just have two things joy it knowing that some of the lessons ing meetings, the annual conference, to say to Dom as he prepares to step you’ve taught us have stuck, and will etc., I learned that he is also a world aside from his leadership role - and continue to serve us as individuals, and traveler, a financial expert, an opera they both start with thank you. as members of ICSPP. and classical music aficionado, and Thank you for leading us - mean- quite the gourmet cook! He even ing the Northeast Group and the entire hosts Super Bowl parties! He has organization - for so long, and in such ****************

14 The Newsletter Interview

Talking with Dominick Riccio by Delores Jankovich

Aware that May 31st, the date conference. It was after that conference work at Pasta Montana, all the while for Dominick Riccio to step down that Peter and Ginger asked me to be- keeping my practice. Then I went to from his many duties of Executive come Executive Director. the 1997 and 1998 conferences and I Director, is fast approaching, I was When I got the responsibilities of began to get involved at that time. curious as to how Dominick is doing the organization, I knew with a full time and what he is up to. As you all know, practice I couldn’t handle the role of You were building your business Dominick announced at the 2008 Con- Executive Director myself. So I organ- and keeping your practice going and ference in Tampa that he would be ized 5 people, including myself, to han- you were still teaching at The Psy- retiring as Executive Director of dle the responsibilities of the organiza- choanalytic Institute? ICSPP at the end of the fiscal year to tion. Robert Sliclen was Membership give more attention to his health but Director. At that time Larry Simon was That’s true. that he would remain very actively the Newsletter writer and Andrew Le- involved in ICSPP. vine was in charge of Communications Are you still teaching at The It is apparent that Dominick and the Website. Lloyd Ross was given Psychoanalytic Institute? never really slows his pace, he just the responsibility of U. S. Director and shifts focus. He is going strong, work- he was handling a lot of the responsibili- No, I left there because I had too ing to increase the membership of ties of the group. As a group of 5 we many other responsibilities. ICSPP, continuing to write and work took on all the responsibilities that in his thriving practice. Dominick is needed to be carried out. So this became You must have developed sig- one interesting individual, very eclec- the Northeast Group and basically the nificant organizational skills at Pasta tic, and open and broad in his inter- whole Northeast Group helped run the Montana. ests and pursuits. How do I know organization. that? Well, I phoned him up and Yes. At the time it was a medium asked him a few questions with the This all happened around 2001 -sized pasta business. I should say that purpose of finding out how he came to that you actually took over, right? it is a place where I got an enormous take on the leadership role in ICSPP, amount of business experience, be- as well as to learn how his life experi- Yes, sometime around that. I have sides my practice, and it is where I ence prepared him for this movement been Executive Director for 8 years. learned a tremendous amount about for change in providing alternatives to running a large organization. In addi- psychiatry. How long had you been a member tion to my business experience at of ICSPP before you became Executive Pasta Montana, I was the President of Dominick, when did you first pre- Director? The Society for Modern Psychoanaly- side over an ICSPP Conference? sis for a couple of years. I think I met Peter Breggin at the The first Conference I presided APA Division 39 Psychological Confer- What originally induced you to over was in 2000. Lloyd Ross and I were ence in Los Angeles in 1993 or 1994. At address the chemical imbalance/ co-chairs for that conference. At the time that time I went to a lecture by Peter. I brain disease model of mental illness Ginger Breggin was quite fatigued with had been using his book and teaching a and begin bringing alternatives to all the responsibilities of the conferences course at The Psychoanalytic Institute on traditional psychiatry to professionals as she had been the one in charge. I had the negative effects of drugs. Peter and I as well as to the public? been at the 1998 and 1999 conferences have a lot in common and we hit it off held by the Breggins in Maryland. Gin- very well. I told him at the time I was That’s a good question because ger indicated at the 1999 conference that very involved with doing a business, my original degree was in physiologi- she felt she needed to skip a year or two. Pasta Montana, which I had helped start cal and experimental psychology. I I think she was also experiencing an and I was continuing to build that busi- was very interested in the biology of illness. Lloyd and I got together and we ness. I told him when I finished my work mental illness but my own reading of said we could take over the conference. with Pasta Montana I would come and the research and doing the research The Breggins gave us the go ahead in help with ICSPP because it was a very suggested to me that there was nothing 2000 and we organized a very successful worthwhile cause. Finally, I finished my solid to do with biology. The neuro-

15 transmitter and genetic studies were drugs started very, very early. Actually, I ences that Ginger did actually con- flawed. They showed no real genetic did a postdoctoral program at Cornell sisted of friends and colleagues of component other than maybe a small Medical School back in 1970. It was there Peter who got up and spoke for ten or component toward the biologic origin of that I frequently came in conflict with the fifteen minutes as opposed to a confer- schizophrenia. In addition, all the bio- psychiatrist regarding using drugs or shock ence where there were discussion chemical theories about schizophrenia treatment. The first time I saw shock treat- groups, training sessions and plenary were also discredited. So the point is that ment, I saw the deleterious effects. People presentations. my early study and primary interest was who were treated with shock had to return The sophistication and broad in the biology of mental illness. My re- for treatment over and over again. scope of the conferences evolved. I search showed that there was very little think this is very important as well as basis for asserting a biological cause for the fact that we created a broad-based mental illness. membership. During graduate school I started a “When I saw the We reached out at the confer- drug rehabilitation program for teenagers ences. We held several press confer- who were drug addicted or drug using, in horrendous effects ences at Capitol Hill and we were able Greenwich Village, which became the to influence some things that were prototype for New York treatment pro- of shock and going on in Washington, D.C. That is grams for teenagers in the 1960's. I was something that was very strong. Clinical Director at that time and ran that lobotomies, it was I think another accomplishment organization strictly on donations. We you might mention is that during my understood that if we were going to treat period of Executive Director we were kids who were on drugs that you don’t clear to me how able to finance all the activities of the use a drug, whether prescription or oth- organization through memberships erwise. At that point I also developed a damaging these and conferences, and to have a tax real resistance to treating kids or anyone exempt organization to survive this with drugs. I knew they were relatively treatments were.” long, ten years or so, is quite an ac- ineffective and that even early studies complishment. indicated this to be true. As a membership organization In addition to that, while I was in By the way, I should mention that I and as a nonprofit, we were able to graduate school, I began my own per- first had exposure to the drugs and shock keep the organization financially alive. sonal analysis. I felt that the humanistic treatment when I worked at Saint Vin- I leave the organization in good condi- approach, the treatment of choice at that cent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village dur- tion. We have what we usually have in time, was less effective than psycho- ing my sophomore year of college at age the bank for next year, in spite of the analysis. At that time the Encounter Pro- 19. I was a psychiatric technician and I had recession. The Newsletter and the gram, which was the drug program for an assigned number of patients every day Journal are doing very well. Andrew teenagers and individuals up to 26 years to help meet their psychosocial needs. has done an excellent job of develop- old, was going strong. I ran thousands of They were being treated by psychiatrists ing the Newsletter and the member- groups and found psychotherapy was and psychologists. This was during the ship is really developing. I feel I am effective. I was basically anti-drug. The 1960's and 1970's when I had first-hand passing over the reins of the organiza- positive effects of talk therapy, human experience seeing shock treatment admin- tion to Toby Watson at a time when connection and love were apparent. So istered. When I saw the horrendous effects the organization is in good shape and that said, I began psychoanalytic work in of shock and lobotomies, it was clear to me it is ready for new energy to take it my private practice. how damaging these treatments were. I over. Beginning in 1965, I was in per- spent four years working at Saint Vincent’s sonal analysis and psychoanalytic super- so I was privy to psychiatric treatment in So you really set up a profes- vision for 32 years. I knew that in order what was considered a good private Catho- sional organization with a member- to become a good therapist and a good lic hospital. I worked there during college ship base and with professional psychoanalyst that one needs one’s own and into graduate school. goals? analysis and one’s own supervision in a long-term fashion to be adequately What do you consider your major Yes, many people have com- trained. accomplishments during your time as mented on it, how it has evolved. So that brings us to around 1979 or Executive Director at ICSPP? 1980.Then I was a training analyst at What was your most pleasurable several different training institutes until Basically, we developed the member- experience as Executive Director? around 1990 and I was teaching at vari- ship base at ICSPP, which was mostly non- ous psychoanalytic institutes. That’s existent before Lloyd and I took over. In My most pleasurable experience where I evolved a course on teaching the addition, we developed the conferences was when we successfully communi- pros and cons of the use of prescription into professional speaking conferences cated to the lay public and other pro- drugs, mostly con. where we had real academic presentations. fessionals some of the alternative So to answer your question, my We invited many different speakers from ways of taking care of themselves and interest in not treating patients with many different places. The earlier confer- taking care of their children. In addi- 16 tion, it was pleasurable when we helped your professional accomplishments that other professionals to understand the kinds we haven’t talked about that you would Would you care to say the name of ideas and principles that Peter Breggin like to mention? of the paper? evolved over decades. All the members of the organization have developed these Working with people is what adds Yes, the title is Medication as a principles over the years. Basically, meaning to my life. That is why I con- Countertransference Phenomenon. ICSPP is an information disseminating tinue to do it in spite of my business organization. To the extent that we were ventures, hobbies and varied interests. It Many people who attend ICSPP successful in communicating this informa- is important that I continue to focus on Conferences have learned that you tion, I really feel we achieved success. my practice. However, you should know are a painter and a gourmet cook. that I am still committed to ICSPP. Ac- Are those things that you hope to What would you say about your most tually, I am leading a membership drive pursue? frustrating experiences as Executive Di- for ICSPP as we speak. I am really rector? working very hard on that task and try- Well, I never stop pursuing them. ing to increase membership and stream- I’d like more time to paint even Some of the most difficult experi- line the cost of the membership. though I have little or no talent. I cook ences were the issues of dealing with per- every day and I enjoy cooking. Also, I sonalities of the organization who have You never pause. Maybe you just collect stamps, coins and psychoana- strong opinions, coping with the resigna- “change lanes.” lytic documents. I have lots of inter- tion of David Cohen and some of the con- Basically, what I have given up is ests to take up my time. I don’t have flicts related to the organization. Also, a the “heavy lifting” of the role of Execu- enough time, that’s always the prob- difficult situation was when we had the tive Director. I have given up the respon- lem. abrupt resignation of Larry Simon and Lou sibility of the conferences and the deci- Wynne, the editors of the Journal. When sion making of the Journal and the You mentioned collecting psy- they resigned, we had to replace the editors Newsletter. The Journal is doing well choanalytic documents? and we had to keep the Journal functioning and Andrew Crosby is doing an excel- during that period of the crisis. This was lent job with the Newsletter. Yes, I have several documents taking place behind the scenes. We re- from Freud and varied psychoanalysts. solved that very successfully and now we A lot of people have been enjoying I also collect the work of Irish poets. have fine editors in place. your poetry and I know you have been writing for years. When did you begin What is your favorite medium to You have amassed extensive experi- writing poetry? work with in your painting? ence as a psychologist and psychoanalyst. I know of your long practice of psycho- I started writing poetry in college. Oil, because it is very forgiving analysis and your long, important rela- Poetry is usually inspired by emotions and I need a lot of forgiveness. tionship with the late, esteemed Hyman and that’s basically the driving force of Spotnitz. You also directed a clinic in psy- my poems. I studied poetry writing dur- Most people know you are a chosomatic illness and you talked about ing the 90's when I started broadening father and grandfather. Do you want your prototype Addictions Program. Do my scope. The poem, Black, which was to tell us a little bit about your fam- you want to say anything about the clinic published in the Newsletter, was written ily? for treatment of psychosomatic illness? during a class with Mary Jo Bang, who is an award winning poet. I continue to Yes. I have a son, Mark- It was an organization I started in the write poetry. I wrote a poem today. Dominick, and a daughter, Alexandra late 70's. It was called The Institute for Pilar. She has a Ph.D. in neurobiology. Treatment and Research of Psychosomatic Have you published any books of She is a homeopath and a nurse practi- Disorders, Inc. I was very interested in your poetry? tioner. My son has a doctorate in edu- psychosomatic disorders. We had a herpes cational philosophy and he is a writer clinic at that time which treated severe No, but one of these days I promise and a teacher. My grandson is the light herpes sufferers. We found we could influ- to develop a chapbook. Somehow one of my life! I spend a lot of time play- ence the severity and frequency of herpes never feels one has enough good poems ing with him. He is 4 years old. outbreaks with psychotherapy and various for publication. That’s one of the things I psychological interventions. Migraine would like to have the time to do. I have What is your grandson’s name? headaches, bruxism and panic attacks were actually just written a paper for presenta- responsive to psychotherapy. There were a tion at a conference in Buenos Aires. I My grandson’s name is Maximil- number of psychosomatic disorders that we plan to do a lot more writing as I set ian Rafael Riccio-Perez. addressed. I now treat all those disorders aside time. in my private practice with psychological That’s a wonderful name. Does treatment. The Institute hasn’t functioned When will you present the paper this free you up to spend a little more for 20 years and is now defunct. in Buenos Aires? time with your family now that you are not quite so burdened? Is there anything else in terms of I will present it in October, 2009. 17 Yes. I spend a lot of time babysit- be assertive in order to survive. awareness of how he developed ting my grandson. However, I have been When I was in military school I rose his career. He also gave us the trying to cut back my practice but it just to the top rank of Major in the privilege of having a brief look keeps growing. I have a hard time cut- school. I learned leadership very into his personal life. We cele- ting back. early in my life. So characterologi- brate his hard work and his cally, I think I had to be a leader in passion for truth in developing I wanted to ask something about order to survive. alternatives to psychiatry and how you acquired your leadership we wish him continued success. skills. It is rare for people to be skilled So really you were still a child We look forward to his on-going in leadership and also in the therapeu- when you began developing the contribution and to his presence tic realm. You seem to naturally iden- skills that prepared you for leader- at the October Conference in tify people’s strengths and build upon ship roles in business, teaching, Syracuse. them without holding onto the reins. Do and organizations such as ICSPP. you think there was something signifi- You have indeed “stayed the cant in your childhood that influenced course.” all that? **************** ______I think there was something signifi- cant in my childhood. My mother and father were divorced when I was age 7. I We thank Dominick for his was sent away to military school. So I generous sharing in providing a learned very early, probably even before wonderful synopsis of his work in that, to be very independent. I learned to ICSPP, as well as giving us an

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AMOR NAPOLITANA

Let me caress you like the midnight sky caresses the voluptuous moon

Then you caress me like the sensous sea caresses each shiny sand of the dune

Let the beauty of your being breach the bulwark of my hungry heart engorging it with fertile feelings

That render me, all at once--- orgasmic and breathless and alive!

- Dominck Riccio

18 ODE TO MONET’S MAGPIE

Noble black bird, Perched on life’s fence Amid luminous winter’s truth, You, alone, can soar.

Burst boundaries! Transcend gates erected By convention and expectation. Fly raven, fly!

Ignore tales of ignorance Concerning color and place. Fear not your shadow; Your very blackness Gives rise to the light Of the universe.

- Dominick Riccio 19 Arts and Leisure Section

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the children’s adjustment following their lead to positive outcomes and others “But my synapses parents’ separation and eventual divorce. do not. made me do it!” Eventually I got savvy to the “MO.” The teenager could not be held responsi- The radical determinism of ble for breaking into his neighbor’s Freud, emphasizing instinctual by Jeff Danco, PsyD house in order to take some ladies under- drives, and Skinner, focused on op- wear. He was under duress--because of erant connections, changed all that. The mother with too much make-up his family problems. Mother would see Freedom began to be seen as limited stopped me in the waiting room as I was to it that his penalty was minimized—or or essentially illusory. But even following her 21-year-son into my office avoided. theorists concerned with uncon- for his third session. She offered some scious motivation or the way envi- papers pertaining to his return to college When I was greenhorn graduate ronments predispose us to act, feel and added, “This tells you what the school student in California in the late 70’s, the or think in a certain way seemed to needs to know before letting him back in.” writings of William Glasser, MD caught leave room for some level of moral A quick scan of the documents revealed no my attention. In Reality Therapy, agency and therefore accountability. such information, however. “This just Glasser argued that people must be held Or maybe society was simply not talks about his withdrawl status,” I re- accountable for what they do. In school, ready to collectively swallow the sponded. She smiled nervously. “Oh, if a kid acts up, he forfeits his right to be full implications of these theories. well, we just don’t want Peter to fail for in the class, at least temporarily. Why the semester. You just need to tell them did that seem such a radical assertion That seems to be over. what happened to him when he stopped back then? Well, of course the humanis- going to classes. That way it won’t affect tic-existentialist camp of Rogers, In a probing analysis of the his GPA.” I immediately felt pressured Maslow and Allport held sway, empha- Nobel laureate Kandel’s work, Niall and set up. “I thought my role was just to sizing that environments foster bad deci- McLaren examines the serious re- certify that he was or was not ready to re- sions and antisocial behavior. If people search/operational and philosophical sume in the spring. I can’t go back in time are just given enough unconditional problems associated with reduction- and speculate why he stopped going to positive regard and empathy, they will ism. McLaren’s scholarly work, class.” She countered: “Then what kind of show themselves to be fundamentally published in the latest issue of doctor do we need to see? I thought that’s good at heart. So the real need is for self EHPP, shows why reductionism in what you were for.” -esteem and feelings of belonging. biological psychiatry is so deeply flawed as a way to understand the Corporate bail-outs. Relief for over- When I met Glasser at an ICSPP human condition and particularly, extended mortgage-holders facing foreclo- conference several years ago, I felt in to remedy it. But as usual, we re- sure. Parents protecting their kids from awe of an icon from my professional formers are swimming against the the consequences of their decisions, in- preparation. But the more I thought tide. about it, Glasser, while prolific in his cluding whether or not to get up for class. st Am I seeing a pattern here? writings and courageous for challenging So welcome to the 21 cen- the zeitgeist of his time, was just an ordi- tury. A time when people’s outrage Another mother called me after her nary doctor promoting ordinary and over a President’s sex with an in- family therapy had ended. “We’ll need a timeless truths about the nature of hu- tern, a governor’s sex with a prosti- copy of your progress notes for our attor- man nature. tute, another governor’s pay-for- ney. You know, for Robert’s legal case.” play scheme, all seems very muted. I remembered her son had gotten into some “Whatever a man sows, that shall (To my Democratic friends, please trouble with the law but I couldn’t recall he also reap” the Bible records. From pardon my lack of inclusiveness on talking about it much in therapy. Mother the beginning of time man has under- the “indiscretions” of various Re- was of little help in helping me make the stood that ideas have consequences and publican “public servants.”) And a connection to therapy, which centered on that certain decisions are prudent and time when we are asking - no, tell-

20 ing - our children that they must assume I won’t go to court to give mitigate the consequences of breaking TRILLIONS of dollars in federal debt so “psychological” testimony. Why would and entering for another student. that corporations and whole industries my opinion be more valuable than an- don’t go bankrupt, markets don’t collapse, other man’s? So I refuse to give a psy- Their synapses did not make and our current economic pain is mini- chological rationale as to why a college them do it. mized. But the Day of Reckoning is com- senior might be excused for giving up on ing. (Indeed, if you want a fascinating, classes, six weeks before semester’s end. albeit somewhat commercialized, analysis Illicit drugs? Fear of moving on with his ****************** of the current meltdown, read the free life? “Depression?” I don’t care; I internet newsletter, The Daily Reckoning.) don’t know. (I did send him for a complete physical examination, which turned I mourn for our country. Our profes- up a plausible medical explanation— sion. Our future. Epstein Barr Syndrome) And I refuse to

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The snow had stopped falling, I sat in the frame of the door Of course I was alone like so many times before The night was dark, the wind started to blow but up in the sky the moon had a warm glow All of a sudden I glanced down at my feet, a thin, worn down cat had cuddled up next to me I started to curse then looked in its eyes They seemed to go through me, then it meowed once or twice I reached down my hands and pulled it into my thin coat We were huddled together both clinging so close I sang it a song and stroked its small head, the street was our home, the doorway our bed My eyes were so tired, I fell into a sleep Night passed so quickly, the cold morning wakened me Damp and so hungry, I coughed and I sneezed Suddenly I remembered. My frigid fingers took hold, my happiness short-lived, my little furry friend lay limp and lay cold I couldn't believe it, I shook and cried I yelled up at God: just give me one reason why? Tears just kept falling, I lowered my head I sang another song though I knew it was dead I carried it with me for a day or maybe more, til finally I buried it, under the bridge by the shore I got on my knees, I stuck a cross in the ground made from some old rotten wood in an alley that I found Hoping that heaven has my little furry friend A prayer from a street kid who's alone and only ten.

God, will the memories never end?

- Kenn

(A poem written by a client of Jeff Danco's. Kenn grew up on the streets of New York and is more than a client, says Jeff)

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2000 - Psychosocial Solutions vs Psychiatric Drugs: The Ethics and Efficacy of Treating Children and Adults with Brain Disabling Drugs When Science Indicates That Psychoso- cial Approaches are More Effective and Non-Toxic

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. Your Psychiatric Drug May Be Your Problem David Cohen, Ph.D.

Peter R. Breggin. M.D. Psychiatry, Malpractice, & Product Liability Issues Pam Clay, J.D. Donald Farber, J.D. Danny McGlynn, J.D. Michael Mosher, J.D.

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. The Treatment of Deeply Disturbed Children & Adults Kevin McCready, Ph.D. Without Resort to Psychiatric Drugs Loren Mosher, M.D. Tony Stanton, M.D.

Peter Breggin, M.D. Children In Distress: ADHD & Other Diagnoses Ron Hopson, Ph.D.

Tony Stanton, M.D. Working With Very Disturbed & Traumatized Children

Paula Caplan, Ph.D. What is Wrong With Psychiatric Diagnoses? : Biopsychiatry and the DSM

David Cohen, Ph.D. Drugs In Psychiatry As A Socio-Cultural Phenomenon

Gerald Coles, Ph.D. Why We Shouldn’t Label Our Children ADHD or Learning Disabled David Keirsey, Ph.D.

William Glasser, M.D. Psychoterapy Vs. Drug Therapy With Children

Hon. Marion Crecco New Legislation, Children, and Medication Abuses

Louise Armstrong, Ph.D. And They Call It Help: How Psychiatry Has Failed Our Children

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. Reclaiming Our Children Jake Johnson, Ed.D.

2003 - Treating the Difficult Child: ADHD, Bipolar, and Other Diagnoses: Challenging the Status Quo with Solution Based Therapy

Peter Breggin, M.D. The Biological Basis of Childhood Disorders: The Scientific Facts

David Cohen, Ph.D. New Research on the ADHD Drugs: A Comparative Study of Stimulants

Brian Kean, M.A. The Dangers of Diagnosing Children: Results of the Multi-Modal Treatment Approach Study

Robert Foltz, Ph.D. Bipolar, ADHD and Conduct Disorder: The Diagnostic Dilemma.

Bruce Levine, Ph.D. Common-Sense Solutions for Disruptive Children Without Drugs or Behavioral Manipulation

Dominick Riccio, Ph.D. Family Therapy: The Treatment of Choice for Working with Difficult Children

Kevin McCready, Ph.D. Psychodynamic Therapy with Children and Families

David Stein, Ph.D. A Drug-Free Practical Program for Children Diagnosed with ADHD and Most Other Behavioral Disorders

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2004 - Critiquing Disease Models of Psychosocial Distress and Implementing Psychosocial Theories and Interventions

Vera Sharav Screening for Mental Illness: The Merger of Eugenics and the Drug Industry

David Healy, M.D. Manufacturing Consensus in Psychopharmacology: The End of Psychiatry as a Science?

Peter Breggin, M.D. Violence Induced by Psychiatric Medications: Cases, Questions, and Contradictions

Brian Kean, Ph.D. The Risk Society and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Critical Social Analysis Concerning the Development and Social Impact of the ADHD Diagnosis

Pam Oatis, M.D. A Pediatric Practice Using no Psychotropic Drugs, and Teaching Peers and Residents to Treat Difficult Children by Asking How and Why

Toby Tyler Watson, Psy.D. The Four False Pillars of Biopsychiatry: Examining the Scientific Facts about the Underlying Assumptions of Biopsychiatry - Chemical Imbalances, Inheritance, Genetics, and Adoption Studies

Laurence Simon, Ph.D. Therapy as Civics: The Patient and Therapist as Citizens

David B. Stein, Ph.D. Parenting and Treating Difficult Teens Without Drugs or Make Believe Disease

Dominick Riccio, Ph.D. The Role of Therapeutic Function of the Father in the Treatment of Difficult and Acting Out Children

Matt Irwin, M.D. Treatment and Reversal of Schizophrenia Without Neuroleptics

George W. Albee, Ph.D. A Radical View of the Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of Mental Disorders

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Nadine Lambert, Ph.D. The Contibution of Childhood ADHD, Psychostimulant Exposure, and Problem Behavior to Adolescent and Adult Substance Abuse

Celia Brown and The Continuum of Support: Real Alternatives and Self-Help David Oaks Approaches

Robert Whitaker Anatomy of an Epidemic: The Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

James B. Gottstein, J.D. Psych Rights Legal Campaign Against Forced Drugging and How You Can Participate

Raymond DiGuiseppe, Ph.D. Is Anger Adequately Represented in the DSM?

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2005 - Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: Scientific Facts or Scientific Delusions Implications for Theory and Practice

Brian Kohler, MD The Schizophrenias: Brain, Mind, and Culture

Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D. Biochemical Theories of Mental Illness: Some Hard Facts About Soft Science

Laurence Simon, Ph.D. Abnormal Psychology Textbooks: Valid Science or Oppressive Propoganda

Clarence McKenzie, MD Delayed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from Infancy and the Two Trauma Mechanism

Wiliam Glasser, Ph.D. Defining Mental Health as a Public Health Problem

Peter Breggin, MD Current Trends in Treating Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adults

Dominick Riccio, Ph.D. Why Mental Health Professionals Fail in their Treatment of “Schizophrenic” and “Bipolar” Diagnosed Clients

Bertram Karon, Ph.D. Treating the Severely Disturbed Without the Luxury of Long-Term Hospitalization

Ann Louise Silver, MD Keeping the Spirit and Philosophy of Chestnut Lodge Alive

Grace Jackson, MD Allostatic Loads: Exploring the Long-Term Consequences of Psychiatric Drugs

Daniel Dorman, MD Psychosis as a Fact of the Human Condition

Joseph Glenmullen, MD Misdiagnosing Antidepressant-Induced Decompensation as “Bipolar Disorder”

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2006 – Mental Health and the Law

Robert Dinerstein, J.D. Human Rights and People with Mental Health Disabilities: The Issue of Capacity

Graham Dukes, MD The Law and Psychiatric Drugs: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Experience

Stefan Kruszewski, MD What Happens When the 1st Amendment Butts Heads with Special Interests

Michael Perlin, J.D. International Human Rights and Civil Disability Cases

Karen Effrem, MD The Origins and Dangers of Child Mental Health Screening

Susan Stefan, J.D. Evolving Views of Psychiatric Evidence

James Gottstein, J.D. A Coordinated Campaign to Successfully Change the Mental Health System

Plenary Legal Panel Prescription Drugs: Civil and Criminal Liability Cases and Concepts Andy Vickery, J.D. Don Farber, J.D. Michael Mosher, J.D. Derek Braslow, J.D.

Grace Jackson, MD Parens Patriae, Parens Inscius: Beware the Dangers of the Incompetent State

Peter Breggin, MD Medication Spellbinding (Iatrogenic Anosognosia): A New Concept

Joseph Glenmullen, MD SSRIs, Akathisia, and Suicidality: The History of the FDA’s 2005 Black Box Warning on Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality

Thomas Bratter, Ed.D. When Psychotherapy Becomes a War: Working with Gifted, Alienated, Angry Adolescents Who Engage in Self-Destructive and Dangerous Behavior

Tina Minkowitz, J.D. Remaking Human Rights: Advocacy by Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

Anne Marsden You Decide Who Decides – Yeah Right!

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26 2007 – Universal Mental Health Screening And Drugging of our Children

Fred Baughman, MD Who Killed Rebecca Riley?

Grace Jackson, MD Chemo Brain – A Psychiatric Drug Phenomenon

Karen Effrem, MD Universal Mental Health Screening: The Facts

Robert Folz, Ph.D Treating Mood Disorders in Youth: Understanding the Evidence

Peter Breggin, MD The Truth about Bipolar Disorder

David Oaks I was a College Student Mental Patient: How Psychiatric Survivors and Mental Health Profes- sionals can Unite for a Nonviolent Revolution in Youth Mental Health Care.

Vera Sharav America’s Children Need a Child Rescue Operation

Jeffrey Lacasse, MSW and Consumer Advertising of Psychiatric Medications: Lessons Learned Jonathan Leo, Ph.D. and Future Challenges

Joanna Moncrieff, MD Deconstructing the Chemical Imbalance and Justifications for Drug Treatment

Maurine Kelly, Ph.D. The Trials (and Tribulations) of One Therapist’s Struggles to Provide Effective Psychotherapy to Children on Psychotropic Medications

Johanna Tabin, Ph.D. Psychoanalytic Understanding of Why ADHD Behavior Occurs

Debose Ravenel, MD Common Behavioral and Learning Problems in Children -An Alternative Approach: A Pediatri- cian’s Perspective

James Gottstein, J.D. The Psychiatric Drugging of America’s Children: Legal Rights of Children and Parents

David Stein, Ph.D. Weaknesses in Psychologist Training: Why Low Treatment Efficacies and Invalid Tests

Michael Valentine, Ph.D. Analysis of Actual Adult-Child Interaction and Communication Patterns that are a Drug Free Alternative to the Medical Model’s View of ADHD

Dominick Riccio, Ph.D. Common Sense and Integrity in Psychotherapy when Working with Children and Families

David Keirsey, Ph.D. How to Help Troubled and Troublesome Kids in School and How to Stop the Criminal Behavior of 21st Century Psychiatrists

Plenary Panel: Brian Kean, Ph.D. Whose Disorder is it? Protecting Normal Children: Preventing James Tucker, Ph.D. Bullying and Creating Effective Learning Environments Noelene Weatherby-Fell Without the use of Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs Thomas Cushman, Ph.D. Dorothy Cassidy, M.Ed.

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OVER THREE DECADES OF ICSPP ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 Stopping the worldwide resurgence of lobotomy and psychosurgery on adults and children, and all psychosurgery in federal and state institutions.

 The creation of a federal Psychosurgery Commission by Congress (1970's)

 Alerting professionals to the dangers of tardive dyskinesia in children (1983). Tardive dyskinesia is a potentially devastating neurological disorder caused by neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs.

 Alerting professionals to the dangers of dementia produced by long-term neuroleptic drug use (1983).

 Motivating the FDA to force the drug companies to put a new class warning of tardive dyskinesia on their labels for neuroleptic drugs (1985).

 The withdrawal of a large multi-agency federal program to perform dangerous invasive experiments in inner-city kids in search of supposed genetic and biochemical causes of violence (the violence initiative) (early 1990's).

 The initial cancellation and later modification of a potentially racist federally sponsored conference on the genetics of violence (early 1990's).

 Alerting the profession to danger of down-regulation and dangerous withdrawal reactions from the new SSRI antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil (1992-4).

 Monitoring, and at times modifying or stopping unethical, hazardous experimental research on children (1973-present).

 Encouraging that NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to raise serious concerns about "ADHD" and stimulants for children.

While each of these critiques and reform projects was initially considered highly controversial, and while each was frequently opposed by organized psychiatry, most are now widely accepted as rational, ethical, and scientific. For example, Psychosurgery is no longer widely practiced and not at all in state or federal institutions or on children in the United States; the multi-agency federal program aimed at using invasive biological procedures on inner-city children has been disbanded; the conference on the genetics of violence was delayed and then vastly modified; all experts now recognize the dangers of tardive dyskinesia in children; many researchers have confirmed that the neuroleptic drugs produce dementia, and experienced doctors now recognize the potential for dangerous withdrawal effects from the SSRIs.

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