Brain and Self. Psychiatric Nosology: Definition, History and Validity
PhD Conference
University of Copenhagen (Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, Graduate School of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences)
Conference Outline:
Session One:
Session Two:
Session Three:
Session Four:
Session Five:
Outline
Welcome &
Opening Comments
The Basics - The Definition of Psychiatric Illness and Rules for Classification
The Historical Development of Modern Psychiatric Diagnoses
Concepts of Validity in Psychology and Psychiatry
Application to Major Depression and Schizophrenia
The Way(s) Forward
November 14, 2010
Speaker
Title
J. Parnas & K.S. Kendler
Time
9:00-9:20
Session 1: The Basics - The Definition of Psychiatric Illness and Rules for Classification
Chairman: Kenneth Schaffner
Guest Presenter
9:20-9:55
Definition of mental disorder and classifying
Derek Bolton
Session 1
Professor of Philosophy &
by etiology
Psychopathology, Institute of Psychiatry,
King's College London; Hon. Consultant
Clinical Psychologist, South London and
Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust,
London, UK
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Michael First
Guest Presenter
Peter Zachar
Session 1
Professor and Department Chairperson,
Auburn University at Montgomery
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Rachel Cooper
BREAK
Progress and the Calibration of Scientific
Constructs: An Historical Conception of
Validity
LUNCH
Guest Presenter
Nassir Ghaemi
Session 1
Professor of Psychiatry
Tufts University School of Medicine
Director Mood Disorders Program
Tufts Medical Center
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Guest Presenter
Derek Bolton
Session 1
Senior Lectuer Department of Philosohpy,
Lancaster University
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
6 hours 20 minutes
Nassir Ghaemi
Rachel Cooper
Taking disease seriously: Beyond
postmodernist psychiatry
Is psychiatric classification a good thing?
9:55-10:05
10:05-10:25
10:25-10:45
10:45-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-1:10
1:10-1:45
1:45-1:55
1:55-2:15
2:15-2:50
2:50-3:00
3:00-3:20
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Brain and Self. Psychiatric Nosology: Definition, History and Validity
PhD Conference
University of Copenhagen (Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, Graduate School of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences)
November 15, 2010
Session 2: The Historical Development of Modern Psychiatric Diagnoses
Chairman: Darrel Regier
Outline
Guest Presenter
Speaker
Title
Assen Jablensky
Session 2
Professor and Director of the Centre for
Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry,
University of Western Australia
Nosological entities in psychiatry: an
historical illusion or a real moving target?
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Guest Presenter
Darrel Regier
Session 2
Professor of the Epistemology of Psychiatry,
Cambridge University
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Josef Parnas
German Berrios
The 19th C. Nosology of Alienism: History
and Epistemology
BREAK
Guest Presenter
Michael First
Session 2
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia
University
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Harold Pincus
LUNCH
DSM IV: context, concepts and controversies
Guest Presenter
Harold Pincus
Session 2
Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of
Psychiatry, Columbia University
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Mario Maj
Guest Presenter
Session 3
Development of DSM-III -from an
historical/conceptual perspective
Time
9:00-9:35
9:35-9:45
9:45-10:05
10:05-10:40
10:40-10:50
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-12:05
12:05-12:15
12:15-12:35
12:35-1:55
1:55-2:30
2:30-2:40
2:40-3:00
Session 3: Application to Major Depression
Chairman: Harold Pincus
A philosophical overview of the problems of
Kenneth Schaffner
Distinguished University Professor of History
validity for psychiatric disorders
and Philosophy of Science, University of
3:00-3:35
Pittsburgh
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Peter Zachar
Guest Presenter
Robert Krueger
Session 3
Hathaway Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
BREAK
Structural validity and the classification of
psychopathology
Invited Discussion
Paul McHugh
General Discussion
8 hours and 30 minutes
3:35-3:45
3:45-4:05
4:05-4:25
4:25-5:00
5:00-5:10
5:10-5:30
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Brain and Self. Psychiatric Nosology: Definition, History and Validity
PhD Conference
University of Copenhagen (Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, Graduate School of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences)
November 16, 2010
Session 4: Application to Major Depression and Schizophrenia
Chairman: Paul McHugh
Outline
Guest Presenter
Speaker
Title
Mario Maj
Session 4
Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the
Institute of Psychiatry, University of Naples
When Does Depression Become a Mental
Disorder?
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Guest Presenter
German Berrios
Session 4
Professor, dr.med., Center for Subjectivity
Research, University of Copenhagen
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Kenneth Kendler
Josef Parnas
BREAK
Session 5: The Way(s) Forward
Chairman: Assen Jablensky
Striving for coherence
Guest Presenter
Paul McHugh
Session 5
Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and
Director of the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, John Hopkins University
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Assen Jablensky
LUNCH
The conceptual development of DSM-V
Guest Presenter
Darrel Regier
Session 5
Executive Director of the American
Psychiatric Institute for Research and
Education (APIRE),Director, Division of
Research at the American Psychiatric
Association (APA)
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Robert Krueger
Guest Presenter
Kenneth S. Kendler
Session 5
Changes in the DSM-IV concept of
schizophrenia
BREAK
Validity in Psychiatry and the Problem of
Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor
Epistemic Iteration
of Psychiatry
Time
9:00-9:35
9:35-9:45
9:45-10:05
10:05-10:40
10:40-10:50
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-12:05
12:05-12:15
12:15-12:35
12:35-1:55
1:55-2:30
2:30-2:40
2:40-3:00
3:00-3:20
3:20-3:55
Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry
Director, Psychiatric Genetics Research
Program
Director, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and
Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Invited Discussion
General Discussion
Closing Comments
3:55-4:05
4:05-4:25
4:25-4:45
Kenneth Schaffner
Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef
Parnas
7 hours 45 minutes
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