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The international Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP) 11th International Meeting for Philosophy and Mental Health
October 6-8, 2008

Hosted by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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Meeting held at the Ritz-Carlton, Dallas
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Gala Tuesday Evening Cookout Dinner and Horse Show held at the Three Rivers Ranch
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
Time	Location	Event Title
1700 (5:00 p.m.)	Cypress	Registration Opens

Monday, October 6, 2008
Time	Location	Event Title	Speakers
0800 (8:00 a.m.)	Foyer	Continental Breakfast
0845 (8:45 a.m.)	Salon B	Welcome and Introduction	John Z. Sadler
0900 (9:00 a.m.)	Salon B	Plenary Session: Values in Persons with Schizophrenia	Giovanni Stanghellini John Z. Sadler (Chair)
1000 (10:00 a.m.)	Salon C	Workshop: Postpsychiatry	Philip Thomas (Chair)
		Towards postpsychiatry: Overcoming the technological imperative in mental health	Patrick Bracken
		Multiculturalism, a radical challenge to our understandings of mental health and well being	Phillip Thomas Salma Yasmeen Patrick Bracken
		Commentary	Steve Weiner
		Commentary	Michael Alan Schwartz
	Salon D	Workshop: Freedom, Control,and the I-Self	G. Scott Waterman (Chair)
		Freedom, the I-self and psychopathology	Gerrit Glas
		Free will, obsessive-compulsive disorder and control	Gerben Meyen
	Oak	Workshop: Values and Classification	J.J. Rasimus (Chair)
		Synergetic psychiatry and molecular neuroscience in the re-validation of the categories in psychiatry	Drozdstoj Stoyanov Georgi Popov Jakob Korf
		Person-centered revisions of the International Classification of Disease (ICD): Where do persons and mental disorders fit?	Werdie van Staden (Vice-Chair)
		Scientific Openness and the Evolving DSM-V Process	John Z. Sadler
		Commentary	K.W.M. Fulford


	Cedar	Paper Session I	Jennifer Radden (Chair)
		Open Placebos	David Jopling
		Authentic aging and human flourishing	Julian C. Hughes (Vice-Chair)
		Philosophical assumptions in psychiatric practice	Alan Ralston
		Psychiatry diagnose: A reflexion from Georges Canguilhem's philosophy onwards	Fabio Luis Nobrega Franco
	Salon B	Workshop: Psychopathology	Martin Heinze (Chair)
		Psychosis recontextualized	Markus Heinimaa
		A linguist's insight into insight	Dariusz Galasinski
		Cyclic time: The internal structure of sudden recollection (flashbacks)	Catharina Bonnemann



1200 (Noon)	Salon A	Lunch
1400 (2:00 p.m.)	Salon B	Plenary Session: Cross-Cultural Paychiatry in Kenya	David Ndetei K.W.M. Fulford (Chair)
1500 (3:00 p.m.)	Salon C	Symposium: Politics and Mental Health	Richard Scotch (Chair)
		Politician's behavior and mental health - The arguments concerning compulsory mental state testing for politicians in Nigeria	Olufemi Olugbile Matthew Zachariah Ben Isichei
		Psychiatry, depression and self: An anthropological perspective	Orkideh Behrouzan
		Psychiatric disability and political participation: A capabilities approach	Sara Bergstresser
		At the limits of access: Psychiatric care in the developing world	James Phillips (Vice-Chair)
	Salon D	Symposium: Self and Psychopathology	Helge Malmgren (Chair)
		What and where is the self: Using Gottlob Frege's semantics to elucidate the debate and the variable experiences of selfhood	Werdie van Staden
		Paranoid atmospheres: Psychiatric knowledge and delusional realities	Jann Schlimme
		Aspects of subjectivity and personhood: Sich-verhalten-Konnen and association	Martin Heinze (Vice-Chair)
		The Literary Neuroscience of Kafka's Hypnagogic Labyrinth: How Literature Informs the Neuroscientific Study of Self and Disorders	Aaron Mishara
	Cedar	Symposium: Personal Freedom	David Morris (Chair)
		Consumer freedom and the digital manufacture of madness	Louis C. Charland (Vice-Chair)
		Freedom and trauma	Melvin Woody
		Self-knowledge and the freedom of the subject	Peter J. Caws



	Oak	Symposium: Coercion	Anya Yurchenko (Chair)
		Are decisions of coercive care psychiatric or ethical?	Ingemar Engstrom
		Coercion for the sake of freedom: Covert presumptions about free will in the discussions of involuntary treatment	Donna C. Kline
		Compulsion and the ethical obligations to limit freedom	Donald Uzoma Masi (Vice-Chair)
		When coercion lacks care: Decisional competency and parens patriae commitments	Dora W. Klein
	Maple	Symposium: Identity Politics	Fabrice Jotterand (Chair)
		Posthuman psychiatry: Liberation or oppression?	Angelica Tratter
		Prediction and prevention, not reaction and reduction: Predicting stigmatization of individuals with Asperger Disorder and high functioning Autism	Kelly K. Dineen

		Recognition rights and mental health consumers	Jennifer Radden (Vice-Chair)
	5:00p.m. -6:30p.m.	Cocktail Reception

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Time	Location	Event Title	Speakers
0800 (8:00 a.m.)	Foyer	Continental Breakfast
0900 (9:00 a.m.)	Salon B	Plenary Session: Listening to Hope: A Critique of Peter Kramer's Scientism	Jennifer Hansen Nancy Nyquist Potter (Chair)
1000 (10:00 a.m.)	Salon C	Symposium: Fourishing in the Face of Dementia	Philip Thomas (Chair)
		The person with severe dementia	Julian C. Hughes
		The resilience of the human spirit: Coping with Alzheimer's disease	Phyllis Braudy Harris
		Flourishings of the self for carers and people with dementia	Steven R. Sabat (Vice-Chair)
		Discussion: Flourishing, memory and self	Jennifer Radden
	Salon D	Symposium: Biology and Culture	Anya Yurchenko (Chair)
		Metaethics and science: The value of freedom and the nature of therapy	Donna C. Kline
		ADHD, biology and culture	Neil Pickering (Vice-Chair)
		Neuroscience and the morality of punishment	John C. Callender
		Treating oneself as an object? Worries about psychopharmacology and self-objectification	Ginger A. Hoffman

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	Oak	Workhop: Psychiatric Ethics	Jason Yanofski (Chair)
		Is psychiatric ethics part of the philosophy of psychiatry?	Claire L. Pouncey (Vice-Chair)
		The social construction of psychiatric ethics	Michael D. Robertson
		The right and the best: The ethics of evidence-based psychiatry	Mona Gupta
	Maple	Workshop: Addiction and Freedom	John Talmadge (Chair)
		Freedom, coercion and the treatment of substance dependence	Douglas R. Porter
		Addiction and freedom	Jeffrey D. Bedrick
		Neuroscience, compulsion and the pathology of addiction	George Graham G. Lynn Stephens (Vice-Chair)
		Harry Frankfurt and the importance of what we care about	John M.Talmadge
		Otto Rank on the courage to live and die	John Christopher Cather
	Cedar	Symposium: Personal Care	Werdie van Staden (Chair)
		The part(s) of me that need you most - the self appropriation of self constructive insights into critical/post/trans-modernism's construction of the adult identity	John Ballam
		Safe care in a Psychiatric Special Care Unit (PSCU)	Angelina Medjed Elizabeth Eastwood Marilynn Ryan
		A role for common sense in peace and freedom: Psychiatric, educational, political, economic and philosophical underpinnings	Roulette William Smith (Vice-Chair)
		The loss of biographical and historical consciousness as kernel of negative symptoms	Pieter H. Arends
	1200 (Noon)	Foyer	Lunch
1400 (2:00 p.m.)	Salon B	Plenary Session: Concepts of Liberty and Value Pluralism in Psychiatry	Claudio E. M. Banzato Calire L. Pouncey (Chair)
1500 (3:00 p.m.)	Salon B	Workshop: Duty of Care	Fabrice Jotterand (Chair)
		The role of psychiatrists in detainee interrogations	Michael Alan Schwartz (Vice-Chair)
		The role of psychologists in detainee interrogations: An ethical analysis	Laurel Bass Wagne
		Commentary	Werdie van Staden
	Salon C	Symposium: Key Philosphical Concepts	Jessica Wahman (Chair)
		Clinical judgement as skilled coping	Tim Thornton (Vice-Chair)
		Is objectivity a psychiatric value?	Claire L. Pouncey
		The experience of freedom: Cognitive science models	Peter Brown
		Hysteria and the varieties of deception	Richard Kanaan
	Salon D	Symposium: Determinism and Freedom	Edwin L. Hersch (Chair)
		Neuroscience and freedom in psychiatry: From Kant to Dennett	James Phillips
		Determinism in psychiatry	Miguel Vilaro Colon
		Is psychopharmacologic treatment compatible with human freedom?	Douglas W. Heinrichs
		Eccentric subjective reduction and freedom	Donald M. Mender (Vice-Chair)
	Oak	Symposium: Religion, Freedom and Psychiatry	John Peteet (Chair)

		Psychotic individual's freedom of religion: Two perspectives	Mari Stenlund
		Psychiatric conditions and religious convictions	Chris Durante (Vice-Chair)
		Free or unfree to believe? The determinants of a religious and a psychotic interpretation of reality	Mari Stenlund
		Commentary	Garrit Glas

	Maple	Symposium: Free Will	Pieter Arends (Chair)

		A Kuhnian theory of free will	Evan Moreno-Davis
		Art, free will and moral value: An interactive model	John S. Callender (Vice-Chair)
		Without thinking: Impulsive aggression, criminal responsibility, and the new brain technologies	Daniel W. Shuman
	Cedar	Symposium: Freedom and Mental Disorder	Melvin Woody (Chair)
		Gender identity and human freedom: One case of gender identity disorder	Jennifer Radden (Vide-Chair)
		Aristotelian freedom and the histrionic personality disorder	Caroline S. Gould
		Is the diagnosis of mental illness an obstacle to human freedom?	Serife Tekin
		Narcissism, psychiatry and freedom	Thomas S. Kubarych
Evening - 6:00 p.m.		Dinner at the Three Rivers Ranch - Buses Leave at 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Time	Location	Event Title	Speakers
0800 (8:00 a.m.)	Foyer	Continental Breakfast
0900 (9:00 a.m.)	Salon B	Plenary Session: Responsibility, Reactive Attitudes, and the Psychopath	Jenette Kennett Neil Pickering (Chair)
1000 (10:00 a.m.)	Salon B	Symposium: Freedom, Depression and Suicide	J.J. Rasimas (Chair)
		Depression: The melancholic truth	Mario Rossi Monti
		Normal biographies: Depression and the life story	Dariusz Galasinski
		Suicidality and being rescued: A paradox?	Jann E. Schlimme

	Salon C	Workshop:
		Mental Health Courts: The Road to Freedom for Mentally Ill Defendants	Susan Hawk Teresa May-Williams Dan Shuman (Chair)
	Salon D	Symposium: Autonomy	Claire Pouncey (Chair)
		Moral quandaries when faced with indeterminate autonomy of people with mental illness	Christian Perring (Vice-Chair)
		Forcing future freedom: Autonomy, psychosis and choice	M. Carmela Epright

		Autonomy, psychosis, and involuntary treatment: The law's narrow view	Dora W. Klein
		Freud, determinism, and freedom - with 'trailers' on Hobbes and Spinoza	Edwin R. Wallace
	Oak	Workshop: Causal Explanations	Douglas Heinrichs (Chair)
		On causality in psychiatry	Jakob Korf
		Phenomenological account of meaining in psychiatry: A consideration of Eric Matthews' Body-subjects and Disordered Minds	Serife Tekin
		Critiquing Bolton and Hill's Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder: Can meanings make us act?	Nadia Halim
	Maple	Symposium: Capacity and Disability	Richard Scotch (Chair)
		Is mental incapacity a necessary condition for coercion?	Gareth S. Owen
		Codification, objectivity and rational norms in the assessment of mental capacity	Natalie F. Banner
		Mental illness, freedom, and responsibility	Jeffrey D. Bedrick
		Ability, disability, and freedom	Robert S. Kruger (Vice-Chair)
	Cedar	Symposium: Choice and Coercion	Anna Brandon (Chair)
		From liberty to liberation and the psychiatric constraints that make it possible	Steven Bindeman
		"You will be like God": Fascination of force and social conformism in two episodes of war	Martino Rossi Monti
		Information or coercion: Should information about the possibility of compulsory treatment be part of the informed consent process for mental health patients?	Neil Pickering

1200 (Noon)	Salon B	Lunch
1400 (2:00 p.m.)	Salon B	Meeting Summary	John Z. Sadler
1500 (3:00 p.m.)	Salon B	Adjournment