October 28-29 2011
Los Angeles, California
A conference for clinicians, researchers, consumers, parents, and families
Conference Topics Include:
♦ Safe, humane, life-enhancing methods of treating adults, children, families and couples in psychological distress without reliance on psychotropic drugs.
♦ What parents and families can do to help children without reliance on psychotropic drugs.
♦ Restoring psychotherapy as a first-line intervention in behavioral health.
♦ 50 years after “The Myth of Mental Illness”: Reflections on modern psychiatry.
♦ Neuroscience and psychology: synergy and implications for ethical treatment.
♦ Consumer-centered interventions that help people move towards full recovery.
♦ The impact of the pharmaceutical industry on mental health practice.
♦ Withdrawing from psychotropic drugs: Clinical indications, safety and supervision concerns.