OPEN MINDS
CULTURAL, CRITICAL, AND ACTIVIST
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHIATRY
Interdisciplinary scholars and activists are rapidly expanding our common assumptions about psychiatry and what is considered mental illness. These scholars and activist include: 1.) interdisciplinary humanities and social science researchers, 2.) critical psychiatrists and mental health professionals, and 3.) consumer activists and creative peer advocates. The Open Minds conference brings these scholars together to showcase their work and to help create a vibrant and interconnected research community.
!!! FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC !!!
September 23, 2006
Sponsored by New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Silver Building: Silverstein Lounge
100 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10011
SPEAKERS
David Oaks
“Unite for a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental Health System: What 30 Years in the Mad Movement Have Taught Me”
Director, MindFreedom Support Coalition International (http://www.mindfreedom.org/)
Emily Martin
“The Pharmaceutical Person”
Professor of Anthropology, New York University. Author: Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS and, Fluid Minds: A Cultural Analysis of the Mental in Late 20th Century U.S. (forthcoming).Jackie Orr
“PSYCHOpolitics: Thinking on Drugs”
Associate Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University. Author: Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder.
Lennard Davis
“Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Can a Disease have a Biography?”
Professor of professor of English, disability and human development, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Author: Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, and editor of The Disability Studies Reader.
Linda Morrison
“Framing Legitimacy: Activist Research in the Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor Movement”
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Oakland University. Author: Talking Back to Psychiatry: The Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient Movement.
Sasha Dubrul
“Wounded Healers and Dangerous Gifts: The Language of the New Radical Mental Health Movement”
Co-founder of the Icarus Project: Navigating the Space between Brilliance and Madness (http://theicarusproject.net/)
Celia Brown
“Choice in Mental Health Care as a Human Right”
Board President of MindFreedom International, NARPA Board Member, Founding member of INTAR, Mental health Advocate.
Duncan Double
“The Acceptable Limits of Psychiatry”
Consultant Psychiatrist, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Founder of the Critical Psychiatry Website. Editor: Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness.
Helena Hansen
“Stigma and the Spirit: Religion and Postindustrial Despair”
Psychiatric Resident at New York University Medical Center with dual degrees in medicine and cultural anthropology. Author of articles devoted to AIDS Policy in Cuba, Sex Worker Risk Economy, and Evangelical Addiction Ministiries in Puerto Rico..
Bradley Lewis
“Democracy in Psychiatry: Or Why Psychiatry Needs a New Constitution”
Assistant Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.
Author: Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: Birth of Postpsychiatry.
SCHEDULE
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:45AM Introduction (NYU, Gallatin, Brad Lewis)
9:45-10:45AM Opening Talk (David Oaks)
11:00-12:30PM Cultural Studies Perspective (Emily Martin, Jackie Orr,
Lennard Davis)
12:30-2:00PM Lunch
2:-3:30 PM Activist Perspective (Linda Morrison, Sasha DuBrul, Celia
Brown)
3:45-5:15PM Critical Perspective (Duncan Double, Helena Hansen, Brad Lewis)
5:15-6:30PM Wine and Cheese Reception
Contact: Brad Lewis (bl466@nyu.edu)