Clinical Conference
June 5, 2009
Repetitive Posturing and Reciprocity in Relationships when Moving Toward Self
Douglas Murphy, MA, MCMFT
9:30-3:30
Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church
3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
The development of solid self and the ability to recognize it often is confounded by the repetitive postures brought about by emotional processes that take place with significant others. This clinical conference will explore the subtle identification with these postures by misidentifying them as “self.”
Thursday Professional Lecture
June 4, 2009
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine
is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Shannon Brownlee, MS
7:30 PM
Georgetown Family Center
Shannon Brownlee, prominent medical journalist and Senior Fellow at the New American Foundation in Washington, DC, will discuss her book, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. Her book, rated the #1 book in economics by the New York Times for 2007, poses three questions: What drives unnecessary care? Why should we worry about it? And once we understand its pervasiveness in American medicine, how can we use that knowledge to create a better system? Ms. Brownlee’s penetrating analysis debunks the idea that most of medicine is based on sound science and shows how our health care system delivers vast amounts of care than is not only unnecessary and expensive but can actually imperil the health of patients.
