ISEPP 2017 Conference "Mental Health: Considering Context in Human Suffering" Denver, Colorado 6th-8th October 2017
PHIL SINAIKEN: WHY DID ALLEN FRANCES MD, CHIEF ARCHITECT OF DSM IV, WRITE A BOOK TITLED "SAVING NORMAL"?
Talk by psychiatrist Phil Sinaiken MD describing the great excesses and harm caused by psychiatric practices as well as their lack of scientific support. Sunday 8th October 2017.
JULIE GREENE: MY EXPERIENCE WITH AN EATING DISORDER
Julie Greene presents at the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry Conference (ISEPP) on her experience with an eating disorder. She talks about how she was unnecessarily placed on psychiatric drugs for decades before she was finally able to escape. Sunday 8th October 2017.
SERA DAVIDOW: LIFE IN CONTEXT
Sera Davidow was given her first psychiatric diagnosis as a teenager, and had accumulated more than a half dozen such labels by her mid-twenties. However, her path to healing and a full life ultimately involved discarding those diagnoses for a very different way of understanding her experiences and place in the world. Now, she identifies most strongly as activist, advocate, mother, filmmaker, and beyond. Sunday 8th October 2017.

