New York Group for the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

 

NYC AAPP Retreat, Saturday October 16, 2004

Holism in Mental Health: Integrating the Biopsychosocial Subject

 

Conference Location:

Inquiring Minds Bookstore and Gallery in Saugerties, NY

65 Partition St, Saugerties, New York, 12477

 

Academic Organizer: Christian Perring, Ph.D., Chair, Dept of Philosophy, Dowling College (cperring at yahoo.com)

Location and Lodging Organizer: Donald Mender, M.D. (solzitsky at aol.com)

 

Voluntary Registration Fee: $20.00.  To register, please contact Christian Perring

 

Schedule

 

9:00a.m.           Christian Perring: Welcome and Introduction

Holism in Clinical Psychology: The Conceptual Mess of Biopsychosocial?

                       

9:30 a.m.          Michael A. Westerman, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, New York University

A Post-Cartesian Approach to Integrating "Psyche" and Social" in a Psychosocial Model as Illustrated by the Theory of Interpersonal Defense

10:15 a.m.        Wendy Hamblet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Adelphi University.

God, Quantum Fields, and Distant Responsibilities: new relations for a new paradigm of reality

 

11:00 a.m.        Break

 

11.15 a.m.        Bradley Lewis, MD, PhD, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

                        The Biopsychosocial Model and Philosophic Pragmatism: Is George Engel a Pragmatist?

12:00 a.m.        Suzanne M. Phillips, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Gordon College and Monique D. Boivin, School of Public Health, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Medieval Holism

 

12:45pm           Lunch

 

2:00 p.m.          Miguel Vilaro Colon, Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University, full time clinical psychiatrist at the Roberto Clemente Center, NYC.

                        Practical and Theoretical Integration in Psychiatry

2:45 p.m.          G. Scott Waterman, M.D. Associate Director, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine

The Biopsychosocial Model: An Ill-conceived Solution to a Misconstrued Problem

3:30 pm            Break

 

3:45 p.m.          Duncan Double, Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership and University of East Anglia, UK

                        Critical Psychiatry: A Neo-Meyerian Perspective

4:30 p.m.          Donald Mender, M.D.

                        Wrap-up and Conclusion