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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Presenter: Check back for update
Title: Possibly no meeting due to APA Meeting in Washington
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Presenter: Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.
Title: Case Presentation and Discussion
Background: Dr. Gutheil will present a complex and confidential case report for discussion.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Presenter: Ed Mitchell, Ph.D.
Title: Informal psychiatric diagnosis of acquaintances UNCERTAIN IF THIS IS HAPPENING _ CHECK BACK PLEASE FOR UPDATE
Background: What are the ethical implications of informally implying to acquaintances that they (or people known to them) may have psychiatric problems? Do such situations differ from the implications of making `passer-by` or `dinner party` diagnoses of physical disorder (e.g. mentioning to someone they have a suspicious mole that might be a melanoma?). If so, how?
Details: Ed spent a year with PIPATL in 1999 whilst doing his PhD in criminology at University of Cambridge UK, but has since completed a medical degree. I recently published a paper (Mitchell, E. W. (2008) The ethics of passer-by diagnosis. The Lancet, 371, 85-87) which discussed making unsolicited diagnoses of physical disorder outside of a clinical relationship. I wish to apply the ethical issues discussed in this paper to psychiatric diagnosis and would be grateful to get the group`s opinions. During the next year, he will also be researching the establishment of clinical (not research) ethics committees in the UK (which are a comparatively new innovation in UK healthcare), particularly those involved with mental health decisions, and would be very pleased to learn from PIPATL members about their experiences of the US equivalents, which have been around a lot longer.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular meeting
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular meeting
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular meeting
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular meeting
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular meeting
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular meeting
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular meeting
Background: Today will be devoted to a book signing featuring Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. with his latest book, "Practical Approaches to Forensic Mental Health Testimony."
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Presenter: Russell K. Schutt, Ph.D.
Title: Do the Housing Preferences of Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness Differ from Clinicians` Housing Recommendations and Does that Difference Matter?
Background: Department of Psychiatry, BIDMC (MMHC) and Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston.
Details: Most homeless persons diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness want to live in independent apartments, yet clinicians recommend staffed group housing for most of them. Surveys in several settings will be used to describe this discrepancy and to identify its sources. The extent to which this discrepancy matters for housing retention and personal functioning will be examined with data collected in the Boston McKinney Project, a randomized trial of group and independent living. Implications will be discussed for housing policies and other mental health services.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Background: Dr. Gutheil will lead a discussion of various issues surrounding how specialized various mental health personnel might interrelate, especially when there are overlapping, including serving as an expert witness.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Presenter: Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
Title: Military Medical Ethics and Guantanamo: The Role of Psychiatry in Suicides, Hunger Strikes and Interrogations.
Background: Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
Details: Dr. Grodin is a consultant to the legal team representing detainees at Guantanamo. He is the only physician to have actually reviewed medical records, debated the Army Surgeon General and met with military Doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Presenter: Have a Happy Holiday and a Happy New Year!
Title: No meeting due to Christmas Holiday
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Presenter: Patrice Marie Miller, Ed.D.
Title: Folk Psychology and the Law
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Title: No Meeting Due to Thanksgiving Holiday
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Presenter: Frank M. Dattilio, Ph.D., ABPP
Title: Equitable Tolling: Assessing Competency to File a Writ of Habeas Corpus in Evidentiary Hearings
Background: The general concept of equitable tolling will be discussed. A case will also be presented, in which an assessment was conducted on a gentleman who was incarcerated with a long history of mental illness. The issue pertains to his competency to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in support of an evidentiary hearing.
Details: In this case, the defendant had filed the instant petition for a writ of habeas corpus 10 years after his state conviction became final. The petitioner sought equitable tolling of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) limitations, alleging that the defendant`s severe mental illness and cognitive limitations caused his inability to file a timely petition. The presentation will discuss how a psychological evaluation was used in order to support the defendant`s motion to expand the record in the matter through testimony during his hearing.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Presenter: Scientology
Title: Scientology movie: "Psychiatry, Industry of Death"
Background: The Scientologists sent us a copy of their movie and we will view it.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Presenter: James B. Gottstein, J.D.
Title: PsychRights` Strategic Litigation Campaign Against Forced Psychiatric Drugging and Electroshock: Using law and science to create less intrusive alternatives.
Background: The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights` (PsychRights) mission is to mount a strategic litigation campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock around the country using the scientific research to underpin the effort.
Details: The speaker, PsychRights` CEO Jim Gottstein, is the attorney who subpoenaed the Zyprexa Papers and released them to the New York Times. This resulted in extensive coverage of Lilly`s suppression of data demonstrating harm caused by Zyprexa, its illegal off-label marketing, and a call for a Congressional investigation. Mr. Gottstein will discuss the importance of such data to PsychRights` successes and its implications on the necessity for the public mental health system to implement people`s constitutional right to less intrusive alternatives.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Title: No Meeting due to the AAPL Meeting in Miami, FL
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Presenter: Richard Sobel, Ed.D.
Title: A Confidentiality Dilemma
Background: The editor of a book on Medical Professionalism has asked Richard Sobel to write a response to a vignette for a chapter on medical confidentiality in psychiatry. The focus of this meeting will be a discussion of this with PIPATL colleagues on their perspectives.
Details: Here is the vignette: "A 35 year-old man is seeing his psychiatrist for depression. At the end of a visit, he asks the psychiatrist to code the diagnosis as insomnia and not depression because of his concern about the confidentiality of records and
discrimination based on diagnosis of depression."
Richard Sobel welcomes your comments in seminar and/or by email. If you know of any references on the topic or have had similar situations, they would be particularly helpful.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Presenter: Professor John R. Williams, LL.B.
Title: Britain’s New Mental Health Act
Background: As currently styled, Britain’s new Mental Health Act will enable compulsory treatment of persons with “severe personality disorders,” without leave to oppose on the basis of a lack of “treatability.”
Details: Many psychiatrists oppose this measure, arguing it will turn them into “jailers.” The Act would also allow restrictions—such as curfews—to be imposed on patients in the community. Mental health charities and the Royal College of Psychiatrists have expressed their concern that these measures will dissuade persons with mental health problems from seeking help. PIPATL attendees will receive an overview of the Act with reference to implications for human rights and professional practice.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: First meeting of the New Academic Year
Background: The summer is over, the research meetings were productive, and now we begin a New Academic Year.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Presenter: Graham L. Spruiell, M.D. and Mark J. Hauser, M.D.
Title: Attitudes of Professionals Towards their own Medical Privacy
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Presenter: Allan S. Nineberg, MD
Title: design research on clergy sexual abuse
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Presenter: Eric Drogin and Michael Commons
Title: Medical and Professional Certainty - review and possible data collection
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Presenter: Barry Roth, M.D.
Title: Research Meeting
Background: Discussion of Dr. Roth`s paper on the limits of separating dual roles of clinician`s as fact witnesses vs. expert witnesses.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Presenter: William (Baz) Harrigan and Nicholas Commons-Miller
Title: Stage of religious and atheistic causality using very different instruments.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Presenter: Michael Lamport Commons, Ph.D.
Title: Summer Seminar and Workshop on Doing Research for Free and Publishing
Background: During the summer, from July 18th to August 30th the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, will sponsor a weekly seminar and workshop in which people learn to develop their ideas, to do research for free, and to publish their reports in appropriate journals.
Details: These meetings are open to all people in the Psychiatry Department. During these meetings, attendees are helped to plan articles and new studies and to work intensively to edit instruments for acquiring data and very rough draft manuscripts. Attendees are also taught how to revise rejected articles. Wednesday, 11am-1pm.
Please email to plan when you would like your work on the agenda.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting - Last regular meeting of the season
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Presenter: Happy Independence Day!
Title: No meeting due to July 4th
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Presenter: Edward G. Bernstine, Ph.D.
Title: Ethical Matters in Crime Laboratory Work
Background: Ed Bernstine, Professor of Biology and Forensic Science at Bay Path College
Details: Ed will describe several incidents that arose during his tenure at the Mass. State Police Crime Laboratory that raised ethical questions. In addition, Ed will briefly discuss the case of alleged sexual assault at Duke and the recent testimony of Henry Lee in the murder trial of Phil Spector.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Presenter: Thomas G. Gutheil
Title: Boundary Issues - Video Education Part 2
Background: We will view, and discuss, the Educational Video starring Tom Gutheil made for the State of New York.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Presenter: Angela Hegarty
Title: Coercive Interrogation: Lessons from US v Padilla
Background: Dr. Angela Hegarty, a forensic neuropsychiatrist, said she concluded after examining and testing Padilla for more than 22 hours last fall that he is mentally incompetent for trial because he has post-traumatic stress disorder.
Details: Zapf reached the same diagnosis and recommended that Padilla receive treatment. Padilla`s symptoms are most acute when he is asked to talk about his 3 1/2 years in the brig, including interrogations techniques used on him, or to review evidence in his criminal case, including transcripts of intercepted telephone conversations, Hegarty said. "He doesn`t want to because it hurts so much, and because it hurts so much he shuts down," Hegarty said. When Padilla was asked about his case or the brig, Zapf said, he becomes noticeably tense, begins to sweat, tries to change the subject and rocks back and forth while hunched over. She said he was adamant that he did not want to testify in his own defense. "He said he can`t relive it, he can`t go through it again, and he can`t name names," Zapf said.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Title: No meeting due to the APA meeting in San Diego
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Presenter: Elvin Semrad, M.D.
Title: View video of Elvin Semrad conducting an interview.
Background: We will view the only extant video of Elvin Semrad, MD in action, interviewing a nurse with BPD
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Presenter: No Meeting
Title: No Meeting
Background: Suggestion: attend the annual Hasenbush Day at the 1200 Beacon St. Holiday Inn. The speaker will be Axel Hoffer, M.D.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Presenter: Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
Title: Mad, Bad or Evil, How Healers Become Killers: From Nazi Germany to Abu Ghraib
Background: Michael A. Grodin, M.D., Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Boston University School of Public Health, Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences, Community Medicine, and Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
Details: Dr. Grodin`s primary areas of interest include: the relationship of health and human rights, bioethics and the philosophy of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Presenter: Barry H. Roth, M.D. and Eric Y. Drogin, J.D., Ph.D.
Title: Substituted Judgment
Background: Presenters will provide a thematically integrated overview of clinical, forensic, legal, and ethical issues concerning substitutions for prior, present, and future judgment, in the context of advance directives, informed consent, and guardianship, respectively.
Details: Attendees may wish to review Gutheil, T. G., & Appelbaum, P. S. (1985). The substituted judgment approach: Its difficulties and paradoxes in mental health settings. The Law, Medicine and Health Care, 13(2), 61-64.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Presenter: Rina Z. Folman, Ph.D.
Title: The "Out of Control" Divorce: Coaching, Consulting and Emerging Strategies for Court Involved Clients
Background: Medical Staff, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Alliance (Fitchburg and Leominster); Private Practice offices in Brookline, Fitchburg and Leominster, MA
Details: Lawyers and Judges increasingly turn to mental health professionals for guidance and expertise in difficult divorce and custody cases. This speaker will introduce a new perspective and paradigm for assisting the courts and the mental health client/litigant, while maintaining boundaries and proper professional standards. A goal contained in this paradigm is teaching clinicians how to promote wellness and resiliency in clients involved in divorce litigation.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Presenter: Thomas G. Gutheil, Donna Norris and Michael Commons
Title: Trading Professional (Forensic) duties and personal duties.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Presenter: Richard Sobel, Ed.D. & Harold Bursztajn, M.D.
Title: Strong state privacy laws avoid HIPAA pitfalls
Background: We will discuss a draft of their paper.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Presenter: J. Tyler Carpenter, Ph.D. NOTE: meeting location has changed
Title: How Do We Think In Groups About Criminal Justice Issues?
Background: How we deal with issues of moral intransigence, e.g.., “badness”, is fundamental to individual and group functioning, as well as existential meaning making.
Details: A presentation of the concept of Group Think, based on the materials used in a recent presentation to the Federal intelligence community, will be made and used to facilitate a group discussion of the concept of Group Think as it applies to thinking about criminal justice issues such as: Etiology, what constitutes crime, how it should be treated, and what are the obstacles to implementation of successful policy. Almost any factor and attendant rationale (we’ll see what emerges in the group) which contributes to the phenomena of crime and punishment can become part of the rhetoric and political waltz. The rewards are extrinsic to the subject, but the choice of variable and rationalization are important to the group structure and function. The chaos which occurs when systems address complex problems like crime was christened “systemantics” by John Gall in his marvelous 1977 book of that title.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Presenter: PIPATL
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Presenter: Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.
Title: Depositions: tips and traps
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Presenter: PIPATL
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Presenter: No Meeting
Title: No Meeting
Background: The program will not be meeting.
Details: Happy Holidays! Best Wishes for the New Year!
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Presenter: Barry H. Roth, M.D.
Title: Two Hats: Towards a More Refined Haberdashery
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