The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry
Thirteenth Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana USA
May 5 & 6, 2001

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2001
THE HILTON NEW ORLEANS RIVERSIDE
Jasperwood Room - Third Floor

9:00	     Welcome - Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil.

SESSION I
Moderator – Mark D. Rego, M.D.

9:30         Melancholia? Part of a Continuum of Experience
                 or a Discrete Entity? - Deborah Spitz, M.D.

10:15       Melancholy in William James's Varieties of 
                 Religious Experience - Alven Neimen, Ph.D.

11:00       BREAK

SESSION II
Moderator – John Z. Sadler, M.D.

11:15       Multifactorial Causation of Melancholia - David H. Brendel, M.D., Ph.D.

12:00       LUNCH BREAK

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator – S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D.

1:15        The Depressed Patient Confronts Managed Care - Frederick Goodwin, M.D.

2:45        Mood Indigo: Darkling World Echoes of Affective-Cognitive Dissonance 
                - J. Melvin Woody, Ph.D.

3:30        BREAK

SESSSION IV
Moderator – Ellen C. Landers, Ph.D.

3:45        The Moral Sin of Acadia: From Evagrius to Levinas - Alina Feld

4:30        The Grammar of Melancholy - Paul B. Lieberman, M.D.

5:15        RECEPTION
                Oak Alley Room - Third Floor

	
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2001 
THE SHERATON NEW ORLEANS HOTEL
Bayside Room C - Fourth Floor

SESSION V
Moderator – Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D.

9:15         Prozac Diaries or Prosaid Diaries? - Jennifer Hansen, Ph.D.

10:00       Melancholia East and West: Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Conceptualizations
                 Of Afflictive Emotions and Mental Illness 
                 - Anthony P. King, Ph.D. and Robert L. Woolfolk, Ph.D.

10:45       BREAK

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator – Michael A. Schwartz, M.D.

11:00        Melancholia: Its Varieties - Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D.

12:30        LUNCH BREAK

SESSION VI
Moderator – James Phillips, M.D.

1:45         On the Personality of Manic-Depressive Patients in Japan:
                 Reconsidering Shimoda's "Shuuchaku-Kishitsu" (Statothymie)
                 - Hitoshi Tsuda, M.D.

2:30         Melancholia as Depression and Anxiety - Suzanne Phillips, Ph.D.

3:15         BREAK

SESSION VII
Moderator – J. Melvin Woody, Ph.D.

3:30         Melancholia in the Encyclopedie:  A Non-Reductionist Medicalization
                 of a Mental Disorder - Timo Kaitaro, Ph.D. 

4:15         ADJOURN

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

David H. Brendel, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatry, Brookline, Massachusetts, dbrendel@partners.org

Alina Feld, Division of Religious & Theological Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, afeld@bu.edu

John Deigh, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, jdeigh@casbah.acns.nwu.edu

S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, nassir_ghaemi@hms.harvard.edu

Frederick Goodwin, M.D., Center on Neuroscience, Medical Progress & Society, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC

Jennifer Hansen, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Timo Kaitaro, Ph.D., Helsinki, Finland, timo-kaitaro@joensuu.fl

Anthony P. King, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, apking@eden.rutgers.edu

Ellen C. Landers, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, eclander@artsci.wustl.edu

Paul B. Lieberman, M.D., Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Psychiatric Partial Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, Paul_Lieberman@Brown.edu

Alven M. Nieman, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, Alven.M.Neiman.1@nd.edu

James Phillips, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, Milford, Connecticut, james.phillips@yale.edu

Suzanne M. Phillips, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, sphillips@gordon.edu

Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil., Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, radden@umbsky.cc.umb.edu

Mark D. Rego, M.D., Psychiatry, Milford, Connecticut, markrd@earthlink.net

John Z. Sadler, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, sadler@utsw.swmed.edu

Michael A. Schwartz, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, mas1@concentric.net

Deborah Spitz, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, deborah.spitz@tufts.edu

Hitoshi Tsuda, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Branch Hospital of Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, fwne9645@mb.infoweb.ne.jp

Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, opwigg01@gwise.louisville.edu

J. Melvin Woody, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, jmwoo@conncoll.edu

Robert L. Woolfolk, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, woolfolk@princeton.edu

PROGRAM CHAIR

Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil. Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, radden@umbsky.cc.umb.edu


LOCATION

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2001
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
2 Poydras at the Mississippi River
New Orleans, Louisiana

Paper Sessions – Jasperwood Room, Third Floor
Reception – Oak Alley Room, Third Floor

SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2001
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
500 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
Paper Sessions – Bayside Room C, Fourth Floor

FOR INFORMATION

Linda Muncy, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9070, Tel: 214-648-4960, Fax: 214-648-4967,
Linda.Muncy@UTSouthwestern.edu

NO REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (There Is No Fee for Attendance)

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