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This is a list of our past meetings. This list contains
everything that has already occurred as of yesterday. To check our current
meetings schedule, please visit the Upcoming
Meetings page.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Presenter: Richard Sobel
Title: Update on medical privacy
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Presenter: Don Condie, M.D. and Donna Norris M.D.
Title: The Rebecca Riley Verdict and Implications for Child Psychiatry
Background: A discussion with Donna Norris MD and Don Condie MD about the public and professional reaction to the recent guilty verdict in the Rebecca Riely murder case and its implications for psychiatry.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Presenter: various posters
Title: no meeting - go to the Mysell Lectures and Poster Session
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Presenter: Donna Norris, M.D.
Title: presentation of poster
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Presenter: Irene C. Coletsos MD and Harold J. Bursztajn MD
Title: Teaching Suicide Risk Evaluation and Reduction to Primary Care Providers and Mental Health Clinicians in Training.
Background: OBJECTIVE: Suicide is the 11th most common cause of death in the U.S., at an estimated 32,000 per year (with an estimated 10x that many attempts) and the third leading cause of death among teenagers. [1,2] An estimated 45% present to a primary care provider in the month before a completed suicide versus an estimated 20% who present to a mental health provider. [3] Teaching clinicians, who are not mental experts, the signs, symptoms and risks of suicide could increase the number of treatment opportunities for these concerning patients.
Details: RESULTS: Several factors are thought to increase the risk of suicide attempts. We outline these factors, and offer some concrete tools for interventions and harm reduction in a forum used by primary care providers and mental health clinicians in training.
CONCLUSIONS: Primary care providers and mental health clinicians-in-training represent the front lines of detection of a large number of patients who are at risk for suicide. We believe that providing context and tools to better understand and treat such patients will increase the possibility of constructive and we hope life-saving interventions.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Presenter: The Usua Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Background: First meeting of the New Year.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Presenter: Happy New Year!
Title: No Meeting
Background: We will not be meeting on 12/30. The next meeting is January 6th, 2010.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Presenter: Merry Christmas
Title: No Meeting
Background: We will not be meeting on 12/23 or 12/30. The next meeting is January 6th, 2010.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Presenter: Professor John R. Williams, LL.B. Wales, LL.B. Cantab., Barrister-at-Law
Title: “Certainty” and Expert Mental Health Opinions in Legal Proceedings: The British Perspective
Background: Expert mental health witnesses in the British courts must proffer a “statement of truth” that contains specific mandatory components. Pursuant to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) of England and Wales, expert mental health witnesses must convey the following: “I confirm that, insofar as the facts stated in my report are within my own knowledge, I have made clear which they are and I believe them to be true, and that the opinions I have expressed represent my true and complete professional opinion.” Similarly, pursuant to the Criminal Procedure Rules (CrPR) of England and Wales, expert mental health witnesses must convey the following: “I confirm that the contents of this report are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and that I make this report knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I would be liable to prosecution if I have willfully stated anything which I know to be false or that I do not believe to be true.”
Details: This presentation will explore the impact of “statement of truth” requirements upon British courtroom practice, contrast this scheme with corresponding American procedures, and review additional civil and criminal rules that address expert mental health witness statements and report contents.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Presenter: Eric Y. Drogin, JD, PhD; Commons, PhD; Thomas Gutheil, MD; Donald Meyer, MD; Donna Norris, MD
Title: “Certainty” and Expert Mental Health Opinions in Legal Proceedings: The American Perspective
Background: This presentation reviews the results of a study conducted in order to gain a fuller understanding of the legal and scientific ramifications of expert mental health witness’ expressed or implied “certainty” in criminal and civil proceedings, with international examples. The few publications previously addressing this issue—e.g., those by Diamond (1985), Miller (2006), Poythress (2004), and Rappeport (1985)—consist of legal or social scientific analyses as opposed to data-driven investigations. In the current study, mental health professionals and attorneys were provided with 43 different statements, including oft-used legal terms (e.g., “beyond a reasonable doubt,” “preponderance of the evidence,” “clear and convincing”) as well as more colloquial and/or circumstantial statements often uttered in a court of law or otherwise in relation to legal proceedings (e.g., “positively,” “in my clinical judgment,” “in my medical opinion,” “diagnostically sound”). Ratings were provided on one form as if the responded uttered the statement, and on another form as if others uttered the statement. An empirically based investigation of the actual meaning of such statements to mental health professionals and lawyers will enable more accurate conveyance and discernment of expert mental health evidence across the spectrum of civil and criminal matters.
Details: PIPATL members will offer commentary on these results in order to assist in the process of moving this study toward publication.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Presenter: Lisa Cosgrove PhD & Harold J. Bursztajn MD
Title: What a Reasonable Patient Suffering from a Psychiatric Illness Wants to Be Informed about as to Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest of Their Prescribing Clinician.
Background: Informed consent, defined by the Nuremberg Code1 and updated in 2000 by the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki2 requires a minimum of four critical elements: voluntary consent, comprehension of the subject matter, ability to assess risks and benefits, and disclosure of important information.3 What is considered important information for the patient to know is based on a standard of what a reasonable patient would want to know. Examples of the material to be disclosed to patients now include potential financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) of researchers and clinicians. Unfortunately, the prevalence of academic industry collaborations, the dramatic increase in industry funded research, and the financial ties between prescribing providers, organized medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, have complicated, and in some ways compromised, the informed consent process.
Details: Indeed, the field of psychiatry has been described as suffering from a “crisis of credibility” 4 in part, because of the lack of transparency regarding FCOI in APA’s diagnostic and clinical guidelines, and the implications this has for autonomous decision-making. Previously data has been reported as to the financial associations between DSM V panel members and industry5, and on expert members of APA’s practice guidelines for Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia6. The current presentation will focus on research designed to enhance the informed consent process for vulnerable patients suffering from psychiatric disorders whose capacity to make informed choices has been diminished both by a their own suffering and the current prescribing climate Vignettes will be used to stimulate a discussion about what constitutes a “reasonable patient” standard in today’s climate.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting BUT IN A DIFFERENT BUILDING
Background: TODAY ONLY! Room scheduling conflict
We meet in the building just across Pilgrim Rd from the Farr main
entrance; the room is: (W)LMOB7
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: First meeting of Fall Season
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Background: Our weekly meetings resume following a week off due to the IALMH meeting in NY.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Presenter: No Meeting
Title: Meeting Cancelled
Background: A number of PIPATL members are going to be away at the International
Academy meeting in New York.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Presenter: Elizabeth L. Leonard, PhD
Title: Assessment of executive function in neuropsychological testing and implications for forensic evaluations Part 2
Background: Two high profile forensic cases where neuropsychological testing was
used to document subtle cognitive dysfunction will be discussed.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Presenter: Elizabeth L. Leonard, PhD
Title: Assessment of executive function in neuropsychological testing and implications for forensic evaluations Part 1
Background: The presentation will focus on how neuropsychological testing can supplement information about cognitive function when a mental status examination is insufficient.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Presenter: Seema Garg, Ph.D. and Eric Y. Drogin, J.D., Ph.D.
Title: Ensuring Accuracy of Testamentary Capacity Evaluations
Background: We will discuss how to assess whether someone is competent to make a will. Factors which can complicate the picture, including mental illness, undue influence, sudden drastic changes in the will, etc. will be discussed. We will discuss some methods to assess competency, in such a way as to reduce the chances of a will being contested after the testator`s death.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Presenter: Dr. Gordon Haper
Title: Psychoactive Medications in Children: Are We Seeing a Paradigm Shift?
Background: Dr. Harper is a child psychiatrist, Associate Professor at HMS, Medical Director for Child/Adolescent Services at the Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Title: No Meeting
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Title: Snow Storm
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Details: First Meeting of the New Year!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Presenter: Happy New Year!
Title: No Meeting
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Presenter: Merry Christmas
Title: No Meeting
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Presenter: Hamel/Davis
Title: Transference and Countertransference in the Lawyer-Client Relationship"
Background: Hamel/Davis presentation on "Transference and Countertransference in the Lawyer-Client Relationship"
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: General Meeting
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: General Meeting
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Presenter: Professor John R. Williams
Title: New “Deprivation of Liberty” Standards for Older Persons: The UK Perspective
Background: Professor John R. Williams (Presenter). LL.B. Wales, LL.B. Cantab., Barrister-at-Law. Department of Law and Criminology,
Aberystwyth University
Details: Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) articulates a “right to liberty and security” that allows for only a handful of codified exceptions, including “the lawful detention of persons … of unsound mind.” In the wake of the Bournewood (1999) case and related proposals, as well as the new Mental Capacity Act (2005), the United Kingdom’s scheme for determining appropriate “deprivation of liberty” for older persons with alleged infirmities is undergoing substantial revision. PIPATL attendees will receive an overview of these issues with reference to international implications for human rights and professional practice.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: General Meeting
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: General Meeting
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Presenter: PIPATL researchers
Title: Review of IRB submission for 9 studies
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Presenter: Robert L. Sadoff, M.D. & Frank M. Dattilio, Ph.D., ABPP
Title: PIPATL meetings resume!
Background: We will be meeting in our new room, second floor, Deaconess building, 185 Pilgrim road. At this writing it is no clear whether we will be in 201C or 205; look around when you get there for signs.
Details: FRANK M. DATTILIO, Ph.D., ABPP , is one of the leading figures in the
world in cognitive-behavior therapy. He maintains a dual faculty
appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is a licensed
psychologist in the states of PA, NJ, NY and DE and is listed in the
National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
Dr. Dattilio is board certified in both clinical psychology and
behavioral psychology through the American Board of Professional
Psychology (ABPP) and received a Certificate of Training in Forensic
Psychology through the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also
a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT). Dr.
Dattilio has been a visiting faculty member at many major universities
and medical schools throughout the world.
*Robert L. Sadoff, M.D.*
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*Dr. Robert Sadoff is a clinical professor of psychiatry, director at
the Center for Studies in Social-Legal Psychiatry, and director of the
Forensic Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine. He is board certified in psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and
legal medicine, and has added qualifications in forensic psychiatry with
the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. In 40 years, Dr. Sadoff
has examined more than 10,000 individuals charged with crimes. He has
testified in numerous criminal and civil trials, both in state and
federal courts. Author of six books and 90 professional articles, he has
lectured in nearly every state and many foreign countries.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Last meeting before summer break
Background: The research component will continue to meet on Wednesdays through the summer. Check back for more information and details.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Presenter: William B. Barr Ph.D.
Title: Neuropsychological Assessment of Malingering
Background: William B. Barr Ph.D., ABPP, Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine, NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Assessing effort and validity of a patient’s responses during testing has been hot topic for neuropsychologists since the 1980’s.
Details: This talk will review the evolution of techniques for assessment of symptom validity through neuropsychological testing and present some of the newest available methods. The presentation will be divided between reviews of techniques for determining the validity of neuropsychological testing and those used for assessing the veracity of various psychiatric presentations through the use of interview methods and self-report inventories. Studies on the estimated base rates of symptom exaggeration in clinical and both civil and criminal forensic settings will be presented with a conclusion that the rate of malingered neurocognitive and psychiatric illnesses is likely higher than what is believed by most practicing clinicians.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Presenter: The Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
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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The Program in Psychiatry and The Law meets on Wednesday mornings at 11:00 AM in Room 205a on the second floor of the Farr Complex. Take stairs or elevator right outside the office of the BI Deacones ... 
The Program in Psychiatry and The Law meets on Wednesday mornings at 11:00 AM in Room 205a on the second floor of the Farr Complex. Take stairs or elevator right outside the office of the BI Deaconess ... 
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