14th ANNUAL MEETING
May 18 & 19, 2002
The Philadelphia Marriott Hotel
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA



THEME: Psychiatry and Personal
Agency: Nature vs Nurture Revisited


 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2001
Grand Ballroom K – Level 5

WELCOME
Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil.
President, AAPP

EXISTENTIAL APPROACHES TO AGENCY IN PSYCHIATRY
Moderator – Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D.

 
9:00      Personal Agency After September 11: 
              Psychiatric Media and Dostoevski's "The Grand Inquisitor"	
	      Elena Bezzubova, M.D., Ph.D.
	 
9:30      Bad Faith, Passivity, and Ontology in Psychiatric Constitutions of Agency
	      Edwin Hersch, M.D.

10:00    The Semiotics of Self-Exploitation
	       Donald Mender, M.D.

10:30    BREAK

THE IMPACT OF SOCIETY ON AGENCY
Moderator – Jerome L. Kroll, M.D.

10:45    Mental Illness, Reciprocal Relations and the Self	
	      Jeanette Kennett, Ph.D.
	
11:15    The Disempowerment of the Mentally Ill
	      Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, M.D.
	      Anthony Pinto

11:45    Mental Illness and Psychiatric Diagnosis: On Account of What?
	      Jerome Young, Ph.D.

12:15    LUNCH BREAK

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator – Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Ph.D.

1:45      Certifying Mental Illness in Contested Territories
	      Horacio Fabrega, Jr., M.D.

3:00      BREAK

LANGUAGE, NARRATIVE, AGENCY
Moderator – Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil.

3:15     Internet and Personal Agency
	    Jan Broekman, Ph.D.

3:45    Determinism and Agency in Popular Discourse: Memoirs of Mental Illness
     	    Christian Perring, Ph.D.

4:15    Externality in Psychiatry and the Paradox of Agency
	    Mark D. Rego, M.D.

4:45    ADJOURN


5:00    RECEPTION
	    Room 406  – Level 4

 

SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2001
Independence Ballrooms II/III – Level 3

AGENCY, TEMPORALITY, AND PSYCHIATRIC EXPLANATIONS
Moderator – Michael A. Schwartz, M.D.

9:00     The Indeterminate and Open-Ended Nature of Explanation in Clinical Psychiatry
	     David Brendel, M.D.

9:30     The Unity and Disunity of Agency
	     Jeanette Kennett, Ph.D.
	     Steve Matthews, Ph.D.

10:00   Agency, Time, Identity; or, Agency is Found in a Dialectical Nowhere
	     Pascal Sauvayre, Ph.D.
 
10:30   BREAK				

BIOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, AGENCY
Moderator – Donald Mender, M.D.

10:45   Unification in Psychiatry
	     Jillian Craigie, Ph.D.
	      Ian Gold, Ph.D.

11:15   Evaluative Concept-Tooling and Molecular Psychiatry
	     John Z. Sadler, M.D.

11:45   The Impact of "Biological Psychiatry" for the Debate on Personal Agency
	      Paul Hoff, M.D., Ph.D.

12:15   LUNCH BREAK

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Moderator – John Z. Sadler, M.D.

1:45    Nature and Nurture in Current Psychiatry
	    Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D.

3:00    BREAK
	            
AGENCY AND RESPONSIBILITY IN PSYCHIATRY
Moderator  –  Sidney Bloch, M.D., Ph.D.

3:15    Responsibility for Emotions	
	    Colleen Macnamara

3:45    Developmental Disabilities and Social Praxis: 
            Can Personal Responsibility Be Taught?
	    Robert S. Kruger, Ph.D.

4:15    Concerning Agency, Madness, Events
	    Robert W. Daly, M.D.

4:45   ADJOURN

 

PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Elena Bezzubova, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, ebezzubo@uci.edu
Sidney Bloch, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
David Brendel, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont Massachusetts, dbrendel@partners.org
Jan M. Broekman, Ph.D., College of Law, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, jbroekma@la.uiuc.edu
Jillian Craigie, Ph.D., School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia , jillian.craigie@arts.monash.edu.au
Robert W. Daly, M.D., Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York, dalyr@upstate.edu
Horacio Fabrega, J.R., M.D., Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hfabregajr@adelphia.net
Ian Gold, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Canada, ian.gold@arts.monash.edu.au
Edwin L. Hersch, M.D., Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, swords@netcom.ca
Paul Hoff, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Aachen, Germany, phoff@ukaachen.de
Jeanette Kennett, Ph.D., School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, jeanette.kennett@arts.monash.edu.au
Jerome L. Kroll, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, kroll001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Robert Kruger, Ph.D., Westport, Connecticut, hpalmer02@snet.net
Coleen Macnamara, Philosophy Department, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, macnamac@georgetown.edu
Steve Matthews, Ph.D., Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, stmatthews@csu.edu.au
Donald Mender, M.D., Psychiatry, New York, New York, solzitsky@aol.com
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Ph.D., Philosophy Department, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, nissima@lewisu.edu
Christian Perring, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, cperring@yahoo.com
Anthony Pinto, Department of Psychology, Hofstra University, Hempsted, New York
Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil., Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, jennifer.radden@umb.edu
Mark D. Rego, M.D., Psychiatry, Milford, Connecticut
John Z. Sadler, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, sadler@utsw.swmed.edu
Pascal E. Sauvayre, Ph.D., New York, New York, psauvayre@yahoo.com
Michael A. Schwartz, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D., Ph.D., University Professor of Medical Humanities, George Washington University, Washington, DC, medhum@gwu.edu
Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, opwigg01@gwise.louisville.edu
Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, M.D., Bio-Behavioral Institute, Great Neck, New York, yaryura1@aol.com
Jerome Young, Ph.D., Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan, jay@sfc.keio.ac.jp


LOCATION:
The Philadelphia Marriott Hotel
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


SATURDAY, MAY 18
Paper Session – Grand Ballroom Salon K–Level 5
Reception – Room 406–Level 4

SUNDAY, MAY 19
Paper Session – Independence Ballrooms II/III–Level 3

 

PROGRAM CHAIR
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Ph.D.

FOR INFORMATION
Linda Muncy
Department of Psychiatry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Dallas, Texas 75390-9070
Tel: 214-648-4959
Fax: 214-648-4967
E-Mail: Linda.Muncy@email.swmed.edu
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