This year the seventh annual meeting of ISPS-US will be dedicated to exploring various approaches to understanding how people with psychoses experience their subjective personal universes and ORG PAID how they experience their disorders as well as their treatments. The experience of every patient is valid NONPROFIT PERMIT NO. 5 U.S. POSTAGE NARBERTH, PA according to its own terms, as is the experience of the therapist. This symposium is dedicated to THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL understanding that validity, and through this TREATMENTS OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIAS understanding, assisting these sufferers to recover AND OTHER PSYCHOSES from their disorders and to achieve adaptive, self- UNITED STATES CHAPTER fulfilling lives. www.isps-us.org • [email protected] Preliminary Program Friday, November 11 (610) 308-4744 5:00-7:00 p.m. WELCOME RECEPTION Saturday, November 12 Seventh Annual Meeting: 8:30-9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION 9:00–9:15 a.m. WELCOME 9:15–10:45 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Experience of THE VALIDITY Personal Annihilation George Atwood, PhD 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CASE PRESENTATION: On Both Ends of the Gun: A Psychotherapy Case Warren Schwartz, OF EXPERIENCE PsyD, Presenter; George Atwood, PhD, Discussant 12:00–1:30 p.m. LUNCH (on your own) Hosted by ISPS-US New England 1:30–2:30 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSIONS Cosponsored by: • Experiencing Madness in Zanzibar: Looking for Outcome Predictors in the Experiences of Persons with Schizophrenia Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in the Developing World Juli McGruder, PhD Massachusetts Mental Health Center • VORTEX: A Mental Health Advocacy Film/Insights from The Danvers State Hosp. Mem. Comm. M. Ramseur, MSW In Affiliation with: 1:30–3:45 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSIONS Dept. of Psychiatry, MetroWest Hospital • Panel Discussion of Involuntary Treatment in the U.S. James Gottstein, Esq, Nels Kurt Langsten, MD, others TBA Friday to Sunday • Transition from the Concrete to the Symbolic: Understanding the Validity and Meaning of the Patient’s November 11-13, 2005 Experience Daniel Paul, PhD, E. Lisa Pomeroy, PhD 2:45–3:45 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSIONS Boston, Massachusetts • Ignoring the Validity of Human Experience: How Can We Holiday Inn Brookline • 1200 Beacon Street Best Respond to The Tragic Consequences of an Anti- Analytic, Biological Approach to “Schizophrenia”? Daniel Brookline, MA 02446 • (617) 277-1200 Kriegman, PhD; George Atwood, PhD, Robert Whitaker • The Schizophrenias: A Translational Approach from Keynote Speaker: Epigenetics and Social Neuroscience to Phenomenology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis Brian Koehler, PhD George Atwood, Ph.D. 4:00–5:00 p.m. GENERAL SESSION: “Living in the The Experience of Personal Annihilation World” The Re-emerging Experience of People Who Have Recovered from Schizophrenia – A Long Convalescence This program will interest psychologists, Joanne Greenberg, DHL, Catherine Penney, RN psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and other 5:00–6:00 p.m. INFORMAL MEETING: The View From mental health professionals as well as members of the Other Side of the Bars Ghislaine Bourdon, the lay public interested in the psychoses. Joanne Greenberg, DHL, Catherine Penney, RN 7:00 p.m. DINNER (at a local restaurant) ISPS-US P.O. Box 491 Narberth, PA 19072 Sunday, November 13 The Validity of Experience 8:30-9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION Hotel: Holiday Inn Brookline (617) 277-1200. 9:00–10:30 a.m. GENERAL SESSION: How it all Began: Ask for the ISPS-US rate ($129/night single or ISPS-US Seventh Annual Meeting Elvin Semrad and “The Lodge”–A Retrospective Max Day, double). You must make your reservation by REGISTRATION FORM MD, Sanford Gifford, MD, Ann-Louise Silver, MD October 12 to receive this special low rate! Pre-registration must be received by Oct. 21. 10:45–11:45 a.m. GENERAL SESSION: Pre- to Post- On-site registration only after Oct. 21. Treatment Changes in the Object Relations of Schizophrenic Continuing Education Credits Patients Eric Peters, Bertram Karon, PhD This program is cosponsored by the Boston By September 15 After September 15 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. LUNCH / BOARD MEETING Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), Base Conference Rate Base Conference Rate 1:00–2:00 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSIONS Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC), and • The Labyrinth of Recovery: Early Trauma, Dissociation __$200 Full conference __$225 Full conference and the Healing Process Dorothy Scotten, PhD, LICSW ISPS-US. __$150 One day (circle __$175 One day (circle • Looking for Therapeutic Community in Contemporary Physicians: This activity has been planned and one: Saturday/Sunday) one: Saturday/Sunday) implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas Milieu Programs Julie Kipp, LCSW Non-members Non-members and Policies of the Accreditation Council for • Ways to Integration Dorothea Leicher, LCSW __$60 Additional fee __$60 Additional fee 1:00–3:15 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSION Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the A Human Relations Perspective of the Psychotic joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic __Join ISPS-US (incl.) __Join ISPS-US (incl.) Experience: Tuning into and Making Meaning out of Association and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Full-time students Full-time students “Madness”–A Virtual Reality Workshop Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is __$50 Conference rate __$60 Conference rate David Cameron, BSc, PhD, Paddy McGowan accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing __$30 Join ISPS-US __$30 Join ISPS-US 2:15–3:15 p.m. BREAKOUT SESSIONS medical education for physicians and takes responsi- • A 40 Year Journey Through the Mental Health System bility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of __$20 Sunday Lunch (Only for those attending the Christine Castles, RN, MPH, David Read Johnson, PhD this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Board Meeting; must be paid for in advance) • International Schizophrenia Research and the Concept of Association designates this educational activity for a Total amount enclosed: ______Patient-Centeredness– a Meta-Psychiatric Analysis over maximum of 12 hours in category 1 credit towards Please make check payable to ISPS-US. Two Decades Tim Calton, MD, Anna Cheetham, MD, the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each Conference fees may be refunded, less a $15 Karen D'Silva, MD physician should claim only those hours of credit that • Lost in a Dream John Michael Madonna, EdD, Cert PsyA administrative fee, prior to Oct. 28, 2005. he/she actually spent in the educational activity. 3:30–4:30 p.m. GENERAL SESSION: Collaborative Psychosis: Freedom Center, Icarus Project, and Psychologists: MMHC is approved by the American Schizophrenic Maps of Popular Education Will Hall Psychological Association to offer continuing Name 4:30–5:00 p.m. SUMMING UP & MOVING FORWARD education to psychologists. This program offers 12 credit hours. MMHC maintains responsibility for this Address Program Committee program. Ronald Abramson, MD, Chair; Max Day, MD; Nurses: MMHC is approved by the Arizona State City State Zip Lawrence Lifson, MD; Sol Pittenger, PsyD; Nurses Association to offer continuing education Phone(s) (list preferred phone first) Fax Warren Schwartz, PsyD; Dorothy Scotten, PhD, credits to participants. This program meets the criteria LICSW; Ann-Louise Silver, MD; Karen Stern, for 14.4 contact hours. E-mail address MAT; Julie Wolter, PsyD Counselors: MMHC is approved by the National Web address Special Needs Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education to participants. This program meets the We are committed to providing access and support to Institutional affiliation, professional interests persons with special needs who wish to participate in the criteria for 12 credits. programs we sponsor. Please contact Karen Stern at Social Workers: Please contact ISPS-US for details. New ISPS-US Members: [email protected] or (610) 308-4744 for more info. Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this Join e-mail discussion list? Yes/No learning activity, the participant should be able to: (1) List in member directory? Yes/No ISPS Describe how the validation of experience is a crucial ISPS, formerly known as the International Symposium common element of effective treatment for psychosis; List on website member directory? Yes/No for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia, began in (2) Identify various treatment theories for psychosis; Please mail form & payment to: 1956, led by Drs. Gaetano Benedetti and Christian (3) Discuss how personal validation is promoted by ISPS-US Müller. Our goal is to arrive at a more integrative listening to patient narratives; (4) Discuss how P.O. Box 491 understanding of the schizophrenias and related validation for both patient's and therapist's experiences Narberth, PA 19072 psychoses, with an emphasis on psychodynamic and are necessary components for effective treatment of psychosocial processes. 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