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Special Discount for ICSPP Conference on Mental Health and the Law
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james m nordlund
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Sep 24, 2006 07:52 PDT
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Hello,
This is going out to everyone on my Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
(PsychRights) e-mail list and you are on it because I believe you are
interested in PsychRights' work. If not, please let me know and I will
remove you.
The reason I am writing is because I have talked Dominick Riccio, the
Executive Director of the International Center for Psychiatry and
Psychology
(ICSPP), into giving psychiatric survivors who can't afford to pay the
full
$300 or $325 registration fee for this year's conference on Mental Health
and the Law a special $150 rate. So, if you are a psychiatric survivor
and
the reduction in the registration fee makes the difference between being
able to attend and not being able to attend, just put that on the
registration form and send it in.
As you can see by the below description, this conference is going to be
excellent (even if I do say so myself as co-chair of the conference and a
speaker) and I encourage all of you others who haven't yet done so to
register too (at the full price) and come if you possibly can. I
unreservedly warrant it will be well worth it. We are trying to arrange
an
additional attraction, which I can't really reveal yet, and it my not come
together, but I think many of you who don't come will regret it, whether
or
not the additional attraction is pulled off.
The below conference information and registration form is also available
on
the Internet at
http://psychrights.org/education/ICSPP06/ICSPP06Brochure.pdf
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MENTAL HEALTH AND THE LAW
Ninth Annual Conference of the
International Center for the Study
of Psychiatry and Psychology, Inc. (ICSPP)
in collaboration with
The American University Washington College of Law
Washington, D.C., October, 7, 8, and 9, 2006
DoubleTree Hotel and Executive Meeting Center of Bethesda,
8120 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20815, 301-652-2000
With a focus on
1. Adult, Child And Parental Rights,
2. "Science Of Psychiatry" In The Courts
3. Non-Drug Treatment Programs
For more than three decades ICSPP (www.icspp.org), a nonprofit, 501 (c)
research and educational network of professionals and lay persons that has
been informing professionals, media, and the public about potential
dangers
of biological theories and treatments in psychiatry.
The ICSPP Annual conferences serve as unique thought provoking forums to
exchange critical ideas about the impact of contemporary mental health
ideologies on personal and community values, and to disseminate models of
therapeutic intervention that disavow all coercion and the compromise of
ethics, rationality and scientific principles.
Participants include mental health professionals, academics, and
researchers
from the educational, academic and legal communities, the medical and
social
sciences, and members of the public. It is no exaggeration to state that
most attendees find the annual conferences the most stimulating, useful,
intellectually challenging, and friendly meetings they ever attend. The
Ninth Annual Conference will be held in Washington, D.C. (Bethesda) and
promises to be the best ever. Graduate students receive a 50% discount on
registration fees. Law students receive a 50% discount on registration
fees.
Course Purpose. This year's ICSPP Conference is focused on the real-life
intersection between mental health and the law. The rights of children
and
adults will be presented as well as how these rights are honored or
dishonored in practice. The role of science is included in the curriculum
as is the role of alternatives to the traditional, coercive interventions
against those diagnosed with mental illness. There will also be a
two-session program on risk management and privacy for
psychotherapists/counselors who work without drugging patients/clients:
avoiding HIPPA.
Learning Objectives. The participant will be able to:
1. More effectively assist people diagnosed with serious mental illness
from being subjected to involuntary psychiatric procedures.
2 Reduce the risks associated with operating a non-coercive, non-forced
drugging mental health program.
3 Incorporate the latest scientific findings regarding psychiatric
treatments into their daily practices.
Plenary Speakers:
(There will be Discussion Group sessions with Plenary Speakers)
Robert Dinerstein, JD, professor of law at co-host American University's
Washington College of Law, specializing in the Americans with Disabilities
Act and the rights of people labeled with mental illness, disability laws
in general, homelessness, civil rights, criminal justice, and
lawyer-client
issues.
Graham Dukes, M.D., L.L.M., of Oslo, Norway is the author, editor or
co-author of ten principle books, including The Law and Ethics of the
Pharmaceutical Industry, and has some 270 publications on national and
international health and drug policies and pricing in the scientific,
medical and legal literature He has numerous appointments, including
being
the Senior Consultant on Drug Policy for The World Bank Dr. Dukes will
be speaking on "Pharmaceuticals and Drug Policy."
Michael Perlin, JD, New York Law School professor and author of The Hidden
Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial, fourteen other books, and well over
175 scholarly articles on all aspects of mental health law. Professor
Perlin will be speaking on "International Human Rights and Mental
Disability
Law: The Universal Factors."
Stefan P Kruszewski M.D., psychiatrist of conscience, was fired by the
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Bureau of Program Integrity
after uncovering fiscal and pharmaceutical corruption and patient abuse,
resulting in grievous harm to children and adults , including multiple
deaths. Dr. Kruszewski's topic is "What happens when the 1st Amendment
butts heads with Special Interests."
Susan Stefan, JD, former professor at University of Miami School of Law
and
author of Unequal Rights: Discrimination against People with Mental
Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act and Hollow Promises:
Employment Discrimination Against People with Mental Disabilities, as well
as numerous articles and chapters on mental health law and disability law.
Ms. Stefan will be speaking on "Evolving Legal Views of Psychiatric
Evidence."
Peter Breggin, M.D, Founder of ICSPP, noted author of numerous scientific
publications including Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac, will
be
speaking on "Medication Spellbinding (Iatrogenic Anosognosia): A New
Concept."
Lawyers Panel on "Prescription Drugs: Civil and Criminal Liability Cases
and
Concepts." High-powered litigation lawyers, Andy Vickery, Don Farber,
Michael Mosher and Derek Braslow join Dr. Breggin in a panel discussion of
the concepts behind prescription drug litigation and how they have played
out in specific important cases.
Grace Jackson, M.D., author of Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide to
Informed Consent and psychiatrist of conscience. Dr. Jackson will be
speaking on "Parens patriae, parens inscius: Beware the Dangers of the
Incompetent State."
Karen Effrem, M.D., will be speaking on "The Origins and Dangers of Child
Mental Health Screening."
Jim Gottstein, JD, President and CEO of the Law Project for Psychiatric
Rights (PsychRights), recently won the landmark Myers Alaska Supreme Court
case which declared Alaska's forced drugging regime unconstitutional,
including that forced psychiatric drugging is unconstitutional if there is
a
less intrusive alternative. PsychRights' mission is to mount a strategic
legal campaign against court ordered psychiatric drugging and Mr.
Gottstein
will be speaking on "A Coordinated Campaign To Successfully Change the
Mental Illness System."
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., of Harvard Medical School, and author of Prozac
Backlash and The Antidepressant Solution will speak on "SSRIs, Akathisia,
and Suicidality: The History of the FDA's 2005 Black Box Warning on
Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality."
Thomas Bratter, Ed.D., Founder, President, and Primary Clinician of the
John
Dewey Academy has over twenty years of practical and teaching experience
and
published more than 150 articles and four books on treatment and education
of bright, oppositional, self-destructive, often drug dependent
adolescents.
Workshop Presentations:
Brian Kean, PhDA moral and ethical breach of the Convention on the Rights
of The Child. Brian has had thirty-two years' experience in teaching and
has held a variety of teaching and consultancy positions in special
education and is qualified to practice in all areas of special education
in
Australia. He is currently teaching at Southern Cross University. Brian is
a
member of the Board of Directors for ICSPP and is also a member of the
Editorial and Advisory Committee for the ICSPP journal. Brian has recently
completed a doctoral study focussing on the social impact resulting from
the
use of the ADHD diagnosis in Australia and the United States.
Clifford Fishman, Es q., Professor of Law, The Catholic University of
AmericaDefense Access to Prosecution Witness Psychotherapy or Counseling
Records. Professor Fishman served for eight years as a prosecutor in the
New
York County District Attorney's Office, where he specialized in narcotics
law enforcement and electronic surveillance. Since 1977 he has taught law
at
The Catholic University of America. He has spoken to various groups on
electronic surveillance, evidence and search and seizure, and has
published
ten books and fourteen scholarly articles which, in aggregate, contain
more
footnotes than any rational human being would ever even contemplate, let
alone write. He has chosen ICSPP's conference this year as the venue to
present this new paper of his on defense access to prosecution counseling
records.
Toby Tyler Watson,PsyDForced Medication and Commitments: A Practical
Guide
to Squash Petitions for Disabling and Unnecessary 'Treatment'" and
"Opening
a Non-Biological Model Treatment Center: Pitfalls and Gains of Being
Medication Free. Dr. Watson is the executive director of Associated
Psychological Health Services in Sheboygan, WI, an intensive day and
outpatient clinic specializing in medication-free treatment, see
www.abcmedsfree.com for more information. Dr. Watson is an ICSPP board
member, the chair of the Kevin McCready Memorial Research Grant, a special
feature writer for YOU woman's magazine, and has lectured several times at
ICSPP upon the "Four False Pillar's of the Biological Model of Mental
Illness." Although he works as a Depth/Jungian psychologist, investor and
real estate developer, Dr. Watson also has begun to provide expert
testimony, having squashed petitions for termination of parental rights
and
involuntary treatment and medicating.
Jeanne StolzerPhDAssessing ADHD in America: A Biocultural Analysis. Dr.
Stolzer is an assistant Professor of Child Development at the University
of
Nebraska - Kearney. She currently teaches infant, child, and adolescent
development classes and is an active researcher. Dr. Stolzer has
published
numerous peer-reviewed articles and has presented her work at the
international level. Dr. Stolzer is an advisory board member for The
International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP),
and
also serves on the executive board for Attachment Parenting International
(API). Dr. Stolzer's research interests include the biocultural
implications of attachment parenting, the multivariational effects of
labeling children, and challenging the existing medical model which seeks
to
pathologize normal range child behaviors.
Tina Minkowitz, JD-Remaking Human Rights: Advocacy by Users and Survivors
of Psychiatry. Tina Minkowitz is one of the chairpersons of World Network
of
Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, and leads its advocacy work on the
Disability Convention. She has also submitted shadow reports based on the
Convention Against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights to UN committees monitoring those treaties, and has been
involved in the movement against psychiatric abuse since 1978.
Karl E. Humiston, M.D., and Mike Humiston, EsqThe Constitutional and
Legal
Structure of State Intervention in Individual Mental Health Issues. In
order
to successfully defend against abusive legal practices in the name of
psychiatry, one must understand the legal mechanisms that make such abuses
possible. This presentation will enable the audience to understand, defend
against, and hopefully alter those mechanisms. Michael Humiston will
explain
the departure from constitutional restraints which commenced in 1936,
trace
the structure of federal funding programs based on that departure, and
conclude with the practical consequences for individuals at the local
level.
Dr. Karl Humiston will present examples from his 30 years of psychiatric
practice. The presentation will be particularly oriented toward
non-lawyers,
although attorneys will certainly stand to gain from the material
presented.
Freedom CenterRegulation Enforcement Deficit Disorder (R.E.D.D.): The
Failure of Mental Health Legal Protections In Massachusetts, A Diagnosis,
Etiology, and Treatment Plan for One of the "Best" States in the US.
Massachusetts is among the most progressive mental health legal systems in
the country - on paper. Since 2001 psychiatric survivors at Northampton
MA's
Freedom Center have learned legal advocacy from the ground up, through
close
connection with the survivors of mistreatment themselves, their
testimonies,
and their frustrated efforts at resolution. Freedom Center offers a
comprehensive assessment of failed mental health law in Massachusetts from
the perspective of people usually silenced and marginalized by legal
discourse and policy discussion. What MA laws and regulations are
routinely
disregarded? How and why does the system disregard them? How does the
culture of law and legal advocacy reinforce regulatory failures? How do
the
"recovery," "peer-run services," and "trauma-informed care" approaches
also
fail? How has the "consumer movement" been enlisted in supporting a failed
regulatory system? And what, specifically, do legal advocates need to do
to
prevent and treat Regulation Enforcement Deficit Disorder?
Jack Currie,EdDCombining Third Force Psychology, Theory of Mind, and
Sensory Research for Effective Interventions with Prepubescent Boys
Labeled
ADHD, ODD and/or Conduct Disordered. Dr. Currie is currently an associate
professor with the Graduate and Professional Studies Department teaching
graduate courses in child development and behavior analysis. He also
consults with parents, schools and school systems assisting them in
developing alternative intervention plans for children with behavior and
learning disorders. During his thirty five year career he has served as a
special education teacher, principal and parent educator. He has
published
articles, contributed to developmental publications, and presented to
professional groups in medicine, education and psychology.
Expert (2 Session) HIPPA PanelRisk Management And Privacy For
Psychotherapists/Counselors Who Work Without Drugging Patients/Clients:
Avoiding HIPPA. This panel, which will include extensive question and
answer time, will include discussions of: (a) How to legally and ethically
discuss medication issues with a patient/client, both proposed benefits
and
known risks, (b) The legal issues involved in helping a patient/client who
wants to decrease or stop taking psychiatric drugs, (c) HIPAA regulations:
How they destroy confidentiality issues that state laws previously put in
place. How a clinician can deal with HIPPA, (d) Psychiatric referral or
not. What are your legal obligations, restrictions, and ethical
constraints? (e) Forced drugging of people. How professionals can
effectively, ethically, and legally help that person to expand their
choices, (f) Using the DSM to work for your patient/client. The problem
of
diagnosis and the procedures of insurance companies.
Jasenn Zaejian, PhDThe Phenomenology of Insanity Acquittees. Jasenn is a
psychologist, neuropsychologist psychotherapist with more than 29 years of
experience; 21 years in maximum security forensic hospitals. Interested &
trained in Character Analysis, gestalt therapy, orgonomy, seminar work in
Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, research, computer programming.
Laura Kerr, PhDWho Are The Incarcerated Mentally Ill? Laura Kerr is an
Affiliated Scholar with the Beatrice Bain Research Group, UC Berkeley, and
a
Member of the Leadership Council of the Mental Health Association of San
Francisco. Her research addresses psychiatry's role in the enforcement of
social norms and the creation of the modern experience of selfhood. Her
lectures and publications cross several disciplines, including psychology,
education, medicine, philosophy, and narrative inquiry. Kerr also provides
workshops for mental health consumers on the effects of childhood trauma
and
self-stigma.
Erick FabrisMandatory Treatment Beyond Facilities: A Chemical
Incarceration. Erick Fabris is an ex-psychiatric inmate and MA graduate
of
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. For
a
decade, he was an advocate on the wards of a Toronto psychiatric facility,
and in 1999, he co-founded Ontario's No Force Coalition. His efforts
helped
bring the 'recovery' concept to the fore in Ontario's 2002 reform
initiatives. He has presented on 'mad' identity and chemical incarceration
at several academic conferences and events including Mad Pride.
Mary Jo Palmer, DCStop the Epidemic - Say No to Drugs for kids. Dr. Mary
Jo Palmer is a 1993 graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic (Davenport,
IA). In 2000 she earned a diplomat in Pediatrics from Palmer College.
Dr.
Palmer has a Chiropractic family practice in Burke Virginia. She has been
in private practice since 1993. Dr. Palmer will talk about . The
serious drug epidemic in the United States with our children today. The
significant rise within the last decade; How many children in the U.S. are
on Class 2 narcotics for hyperactivity today versus 15 years ago? What
changed?; Common causes of hyperactivity; and Drug-free solutions to
rescue
this generation
Nathaniel S Lehrman, M.D.The insanity defence, and its use to exculpate
terrorists. Dr. Lehrman has been a psychiatrist since 1947, has long been
concerned about the relationship between psychiatry and morality, and how
the former sometimes replaces the latter.
Robert Kay, M.D.The Know Nothing Psychiatrist. Dr. Kay will discuss how
he
empowers patients and offers them ideas, medications and caring which they
then choose, or not choose, to incorporate.
Clover Smith, psychiatric survivor and author of the book, "Escape from
Psychiatry"How and Why the 12 Steps Cures Mental Illness - Including
Paranoid Schzophrenia.
Anne MarsdenYou Decide Who Decides - Yeah Right! Anne Marsden worked in
administration at McMaster University and its associated internationally
respected hospital for twenty years. Anne left the professional arena in
1992 as a nationally respected quality assurance consultant with an
expertise in audit as a result of health problems associated with her long
term physical disability and stress. She has used her oft times
unpleasant experiences to help others and co-founded a national volunteer
organization The Auditors, The Canadian Family Watchdog where she is now
audit manager. August 8, 2006
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REGISTRATION FORM
Bethesda Double Tree Hotel
8120 Wisconsin Avenue
Phone: 301-652-2000
Fax 301-652-3806
The room rate is $119.00 for a single or a double. Space is limited at the
conference venue so book upon receipt of this form. You must book by
September 15, 2006 to get the conference rate (but maybe they will still
give it to you).
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James B. (Jim) Gottstein, Esq.
Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
406 G Street, Suite 206
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
Phone: (907) 274-7686) Fax: (907) 274-9493
ji-@psychrights.org
http://psychrights.org/
Psych Rights ®
Law Project for
Psychiatric Rights
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm
devoted
to the defense of people facing the horrors of unwarranted forced
psychiatric drugging. We are further dedicated to exposing the truth
about
these drugs and the courts being misled into ordering people to be drugged
and subjected to other brain and body damaging interventions against their
will. Extensive information about this is available on our web site,
http://psychrights.org/. Please donate generously. Our work is fueled
with
your IRS 501(c) tax deductible donations. Thank you for your ongoing help
and support.
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