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Schedule
SCHIZOPHRENIA:
DIAGNOSIS IS NOT DESTINY
Saturday April 12 and Sunday April 13, 2008
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008
8:00
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Registration |
8:30
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Welcome and Introduction
Michael E. Kerr, MD
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8:45
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Neuroendocrine Regulation of Autoimmune, Inflammatory, and Infectious Disease - Esther M. Sternberg, MD
How the science of the mind-body connection explains how stress and the social world affect health, how belief helps healing, how the immune system can change moods, and how these ideas influence treatment.
Dr. Sternberg is
Director of the Intramural Integrative Neural Immune Program, NIMH/National Institutes of Health. She is also Chief, Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, NIMH and is internationally recognized for her work on the stress response, the brain-immune system connection, and the role of the immune system in medical and psychiatric conditions.
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10:00
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Coffee |
10:30 |
The Relationship between Stress and Schizophrenia
Michael D. Lumpkin, PhD
Outline of how the particular neuroendocrine mechanisms activated in stress are believed to participate in the generation of schizophrenia.
Dr. Lumpkin is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the School of Medicine at Georgetown University. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in neuroendocrinology and neuroimmunology, and has a remarkable ability to communicate how stress can translate into disease.
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11:45
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Panel and Audience Questions
Sternberg and Lumpkin
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12:15 |
Lunch Break
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1:45
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The Relevance of Bowen Theory’s Concept of “Self” to a Broader Understanding of Schizophrenia
Michael E. Kerr, MD
Bowen theory’s concept of “self” is unique by defining self as people’s capacity to adapt successfully to the pressures and tensions of family and social groups. Symptoms emerge when that adaptive capacity is exceeded.
Dr. Kerr is the
Director of The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family and is in private practice in family psychiatry. He has long been interested in the interplay of relationships, stress, and the biology of schizophrenia. |
3:00
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Break |
3:15
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Medication and Restraints: Forced Treatment and the Rights of People with Mental Illness
Elyn R. Saks, JD, PhD Candidate
The legal, psychiatric, and normative issues surrounding the right to refuse treatment and the use of restraints in psychiatric hospitals.
Ms. Saks is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School. She is also the Associate Dean for Research, USC Law School Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Her most recent book, The Center Cannot Hold, conveys incredible insight into schizophrenia. It was chosen one of the Top Ten 2007 Non-Fiction Books by Time Magazine. |
4:30
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Panel Discussion
Kerr, Saks, Sternberg and Lumpkin |
5:00
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Adjournment |
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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2008
9:00
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The Center Cannot Hold
Elyn R. Saks, JD, PhD Candidate
The story of how Ms. Saks overcame a diagnosis of schizophrenia in her twenties with multiple hospitalizations and a poor prognosis—to build a successful life as a law professor, researcher, author, psychoanalyst in training, and wife. |
10:30
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Coffee |
11:00
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Diagnosis is not Destiny
Lonnie Joe Holt, MS
A recorded interview in which he describes being diagnosed with schizophrenia in his late teens, the critical role of relationships in his gradual ascent to sanity, and his becoming a husband, father, and family therapist.
Mr. Holt is a systems analyst for the Department of Defense and a marriage and family therapist serving as Director of Counseling, Abundant Life Baptist Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri. He is a diagnosed schizophrenic. His description of key components in his recovery both inform and inspire. |
12:30
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Lunch Break |
2:00
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A Family Approach to Psychosis
Thomas Whitehead, JD and Cecile Whitehead
A recorded interview with the parents of a daughter who had a series of psychotic episodes beginning in her late teens. It describes how the parents worked on their parts in the problem and contributed to the daughter’s recovery.
Ms. Whitehead is the President of Accurate Solutions, an accounting firm in Washington DC specializing in outsourced accounting services for businesses in the metropolitan DC area. Mr. Whitehead has retired from government service and private law practice. |
3:00
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Break |
3:15
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Panel Discussion
Kerr/Saks/Sternberg/Lumpkin/Holt/Whiteheads |
4:30
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Adjournment |
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