Gender Perspectives In And On Psychiatric Theory
And Practice
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1998
9:15 WELCOME & BUSINESS MEETING
Jennifer H. Radden, D.Phil., President, AAPP
10:00 WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION
Chair: Jennifer Radden, D.Phil., Professor of Philosophy,
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Women, Success and Leadership
Carol Nadelson, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School; Director, Office for Women's Careers,
Brigham & Women's Hospital; President, CEO & Editor-in-Chief,
American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Brookline, MA
11:30 GENDER LINKED DISORDERS & THEIR TREATMENT
Inflexible Body Images: The Intercorporeal Dimensions Of Anorexia Nervosa
Gail Weiss, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy,
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Narrative Psychology & Somatoform Disorder
Greg Mahr, M.D., Private Practice of Psychiatry, Detroit, MI
"Splitting" Women: Borderline Discourse And Con(s)t(r)aining Therapy
Cathy Leaker, M.A., Visiting Instructor in English & Women's Studies,
Empire State College, Rochester, NY
2:00 PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Chair: J. Melvin Woody, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy,
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Shame, Gender & Psychopathology
Sandra Bartky, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy,
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
3:45 EPISTEMOLOGICAL & METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Chair: John Sadler, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Narrative Identities, Traumatized Selves, Responsible Knowings
Lorraine Code, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy,
University of York, North York, Ontario, Canada
Phenomenological & Postmodern Strategies
Lisa Cosgrove, Ph.D., Department of Counseling Psychology,
University of Massachusetts & Private Practice, Boston, MA
Who Says? Patriarch, Cognitive Science And The Unconscious
Anne Jaap Jacobson, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Chair,
The Cognitive Science Initiative, University of Houston, TX
5:15 AAPP Is Ten Years Old: What Can We Anticipate In The Decade To Come?
Michael Alan Schwartz, M.D., Founding President, AAPP
& Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,
Cleveland, OH
6:00 RECEPTION
SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1998
9:00 DEPRESSION
Chair: Osborne P. Wiggins, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy,
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Considering A Feminist Critique Of Prozac? Take Valium & Wait
Christian Perring, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Philosophy,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Prozac, Gender & The Micropolitics Of Biopsychiatry
Camilla Griggers, Ph.D., Professor & Distinguished Chair in Women's Studies,
Carlow College, Pittsburgh, PA
The Cultural & Corporeal In Feminine Depression:
A Poststructuralist Reading
Suzanne Barnard, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology,
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Philosophy, Postmodernism, Psychiatry, Progress, Patriarchy,
Prozac & The Politics of Posthuman Bodies
Bradley Lewis, M.D., Psychiatry/Cultural Studies,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
11:15 DIAGNOSTIC CLASSIFICATION
Chair: Patricia Ross, Ph.D., Research Associate,
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN
Gender & Madness: Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Science
& Essentialist Norms in Psychiatric Classification
Judith Simonsen, LLB, The New School, New York, NY
The Diagnosis of Hysteria in Medeival Saints
Jerome L. Kroll, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota
Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
1:30 GENDER IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT/GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER
Chair: Michael Alan Schwartz, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Psychiatry & The Politics of Transgenderism
Louise Newman, M.D., Paediaric Mental Health Service,
South Western Sydney Area Health Service, & Aidy Griffin,
Course Coordinator, New South Wales Intitute of Psychiatry,
Liverpool, NSW, Australia
Love & Gender: Dasein & Design
Elena Bezzubova, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
Russian State Medical School, Moscow, Russia
2:30 PSYCHIATRIC ETHICS & GENDER POLITICS
Chair: Loretta Kopelman, Ph.D., Professor & Chair
of Medical Humanities, East Carolina Univeristy, Greenville, NC
Feminist Bioethics & Psychiatry
Norah Martin, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
The University of Portland, Portland, OR
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder & Abortion
George J. Agich, Ph.D., Professor & Chair of Bioethics,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
3:45 CAUSES & CURES
Chair: Carolyn Quadrio, Visiting Fellow, The University of New South Wales
& The Prince of Wales Hospital, New Sough Wales, Australia
Selfhood & An Absent Genealogy: Irigaray On The Self & Other
Robin Roth, Ph.D., Philosophy, USA
Cixious & Wolf: Writing As Women's Therapy
Judith Green, Ph.D, Professor of Philosophy,
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
