2018 ISEPP Conference Schedule – Toronto
2018 ISEPP Conference Schedule – Toronto
Friday, October 19th
4 – 6 pm: ISEPP Board Meeting (Suite 223)
6 – 6:30pm: Registration for Conference (Outside Champagne West. This is offered as an early registration for Saturday’s activities.)
6:30 – 9:00pm: Welcome Reception (Champagne West). Attire: Business Casual. Remarks by Joe Tarantolo, M.D. – Saving Psychiatry. Saving Psychiatry?
Saturday, October 20th
8 – 8:45am: Registration (Outside Champagne West)
8:45 – 9am: Welcoming remarks and announcements by Chuck Ruby, Ph.D., Executive Director
General Sessions:
9 – 10am: Jacob Blum, Jacob Blum, Fellow & Lecturer York University, co-chair, York Collegium for Practical Ethics – Speaking Truth to Power: The Practical Challenges of Being Ethical.
10 – 10:15am: Discussion
10:15 – 11:15am: Lisa Nagy, M.D. – The Very Effective Environmental Medicine Approach to Mental Illness (Champagne West)
11:15 – 11:30am: Discussion
11:30am – 12:30pm: Lunch Buffet
Breakout Sessions 1:
12:45 – 1:45pm:
Provence Room: Al Galves, Ph.D. & Joe Tarantolo, M.D. – Psychology/Psychiatry Dialogue
Bourgogne Room: Norbert Wetzel, Th.D. – Toward Relationship-Oriented and Context-Sensitive Therapy – A Radical Critique of Current Dominant Thinking about “Mental Health” and “Mental Illness”
Bordeaux Room: Karin Tochkov, Ph.D. & Nichole Williams, B.S. – Exercising Restraint Instead of Restraining: Alternatives To the Use of Seclusion and Restraint. HANDOUTS: Powerpoint Slides
Champagne West: Lee Coleman, M.D. – Dethroning Psychiatry: Strategies for Winning the War of the Words. HANDOUTS: Real Medicine vs. Counterfeit Medicine, Caution: Psychiatry May Be Hazardous To Your Health, Fear of Psychiatry
1:45 – 2pm: Break
Breakout Sessions 2:
2 – 3:00pm:
Provence Room: Paula Caplan, Ph.D. – Documentary Film “Is Anybody Listening?” with discussion
Bourgogne Room: Ann Green, PMHNP – Therapeutics in Everyday Life: Performing Our Way to Emotional Growth. HANDOUTS: Relating to People as Revolutionaries by Lois Holzman
Bordeaux Room: Carol Frost Wagner, M.A. – Seeking the Silence: A Path to Recovery and Successfully Handling Life for Both the Patient and the Practitioner
Champagne West: David Walker, Ph.D. – The Geopolitics of Trauma
3 – 3:30pm: Break & Networking
Breakout Sessions 3:
3:30 – 4:30pm:
Provence Room: Paula Caplan, Ph.D. & Mary Vieten, Ph.D. – Depathologizing Veterans’ Trauma and Bridging the Chasms Between Them and Nonveterans
Bourgogne Room: Bruce Pardy, J.D. – Head Starts and Extra Time: Academic Accommodation on Post-secondary Exams and Assignments for Students with Cognitive and Mental Disabilities
Bordeaux Room: Harper West, M.A. – Self-Acceptance Psychology: A New Paradigm for Understanding Emotional Health. HANDOUTS: Powerpoint Slides, SAP Assessment Matrix, SAP Shame Resource List
Champagne West: Robert Groome, Lacanian Analyst – Mental Healthfare = Healthcare + Warfare. HANDOUTS: Definitions & Treatments, A Logic of Madness
General Session:
4:45 – 5:30pm: Noel Hunter, Psy.D. – Trauma and Madness
6:30 – 9:00pm: Awards Dinner (Champagne West). Attire: Business Casual.
Sunday, October 21st:
8:45 – 9am: Announcements and Introduction by Chuck Ruby, Ph.D., Executive Director
General Session:
9 – 10am: Irving Kirsch, Ph.D. (Champagne West) – The Emperor’s New Drugs: Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect
10 – 10:30am: Discussion
Breakout Sessions 4:
10:45 – 11:45am:
Provence Room: Richard Wagner, M.A. – The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous – Asset or Liability – Yes!
Bourgogne Room: Jeanne Stolzer, Ph.D. – Psychiatric Drugs and Unprovoked Mass Murder: Exposing the Irrefutable Linkages
Bordeaux Room: Bert Karon, Ph.D. – TBD
Champagne West: Lisa Nagy, M.D. – The Very Effective Environmental Medicine Approach to Mental Illness
12 – 1pm: Lunch Buffet
Breakout Sessions 5:
1:15 – 2:15pm:
Provence Room: Christopher Achkar, Attorney – A Legal Overview of Inclusivity and Mental Health in the Workplace
Bourgogne Room: CANCELLED Noelene Weatherby-Fell, Ph.D. – Building Resilience and Bouncing Forward CANCELLED
Bordeaux Room – Andrew Thibault, Director and Litigant – An Inconvenient Parent: How a Father Fought the FDA and Won. HANDOUTS: An Inconvenient Parent: How a Father Fought the FDA and Won
Champagne West – David & Gillian Carmichael – Recognizing SSRI-Induced Psychosis
2:15 – 2:45pm: Break
Breakout Sessions 6:
2:45 – 3:45pm:
Provence Room: Burton Seitler, Ph.D. – Seeing Beneath Diagnostic Labels, Uncovering Long-Held, Guarded Secrets, and Being of Help
Bourgogne Room: Carol Frost Wagner, M.A. – Shadow Spouse: Recognizing and Supporting the Primary Caretaker in a Client/Patient’s Illness or Recovery
Bordeaux Room: Paula Caplan, Ph.D. – The First Cause of Everything Bad in the Mental Health System: Psychiatric Diagnosis Action Think Tank
Champagne West: Noel Hunter, Psy.D. – Trauma and Adversity in Mental Health: What Helps and What Doesn’t
General Session:
4 – 4:30pm: Closing – Chuck Ruby, Ph.D., Executive Director