2015 JEMH Conference
7th JEMH Conference on Ethics in Mental Health
Theme:
“Singing in Three Part Harmony: Philosophy, Psychiatry, and the Legal System”
Date:
June 11, 12, 13, 2015, Thursday (all day), Friday (all day), Saturday (morning)
Keynote Speakers:
Art Caplan PhD & Jonathan D. Moreno PhD
City:
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada (one hour east of Toronto, half hour south of Peterborough, on the main Via Rail line)
Location:
Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario
Hosted by:
Hosted by the "Journal of Ethics in Mental Health" (www.jemh.ca) in association with McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada) and The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
Conference Poster:
Sponsored by:
- Northumberland Hills Hospital (Cobourg)
- Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (Ottawa)
Keynote Speakers
Art Caplan PhD is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics in NYU Langone Medical Center’s Department of Population Health. He holds seven honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools.
Prior to coming to NYU Langone, he was the Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he created the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medical Ethics. Dr. Caplan also taught at the University of Minnesota (where he founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics), the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. He was the Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984-1987.
Dr. Caplan has served on a number of national and international committees. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, and is the author or editor of 32 books and over 600 papers in peer reviewed journals. His most recent books are Contemporary Debates in Bioethics (Wiley 2013) and Ethics in Mental Healthcare: A Reader (MIT Press, 2013).
Jonathan D. Moreno PhD is a Penn Integrates Knowledge university professor at the University Pennsylvania, where he is also Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy.
His book most recent book, released in October 2014, is Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network.
He has published 21 books and more than 500 papers, book chapters, reviews and op eds. He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and other major media. The American Journal of Bioethics has called him “the most interesting bioethicist of our time.”
Thursday June 11th, 2015
Video
Welcome & Introduction (Concert Hall)
John Maher MD FRCPC
Editor-in-Chief, JEMH
The Historial Possibility of "Recovery
Louis Charland PhD
Professor, Depts. of Philosophy and Psychiatry,
University of Western Ontario, London ON
Part 1
Part 2
Emotivism and the Danger of Words and Stories
Murray Littlejohn
Dept. of Philosophy,
University of New Brunswick, Saint John NB,
& Boston College, Boston MA
Part 2
Part 3
Autism and Downs Syndrome: Funding Priorities?
Murray Littlejohn
Dept. of Philosophy,
University of New Brunswick, Saint John NB,
& Boston College, Boston MA
The Ethics of Helping People - with a Tip of the Hat to B. F. Skinner"
Marna S. Barrett PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pyschology,
Psychiatry Mood & Anxiety Disorders Treatment Research Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
Keynote Speaker
Tick Tick Tick - the Ethical Challenges of Prenatal Genetic Testing for Mental Disorders
Art Caplan PhD
Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health (Med Ethics), New York University, New York NY
Friday June 12, 2015
Mental Health and Federal Corrections
Ivan Zinger JD PhD
Executive Director and General Counsel
Office of the Correctional Investigator, Ottawa ON
Part 1
Part 2
What’s Good about Defiance? Interpreting Aggressive and Defiant Behavior in Children
Nancy Nyquist Potter PhD
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Louisville, Louisville KY
Part 1
Part 2
Giving Asylum: The Ethics of Long-term Care for Patients with Serious, Refractory Mental Illness
Dominic Sisti PhD
Director, Scattergood Ethics Program,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
Part 1
Part 2
Moral Distress, Compassion Fatigue, and the Wellbeing of Health Professionals
Wendy Austin PhD RN
Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Nursing & The Dossetor Health Ethics Centre
University of Alberta, Edmonton AB
Part 1
Part 2
Keynote Speaker
Impromptu Man
Jonathan Moreno PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
Part 1
Para-Docs
Viktor and I
A documentary about Vicktor Frankl made by his grandson. Discussion to follow…
Just Keep Breathing
A documentary about moral distress. Discussion to follow...
Saturday June 13, 2015
Keynote Speaker
Mind Wars
Jonathan Moreno PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
Part 3
Psychologists, the Psychological Test Industry, and Ethics: The Case of Emotional Intelligence
James Parker PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, Canada Research Chair in Emotion and Health, Trent University, Peterborough ON
Part 1
Drug Treatment and Mental Health Courts
The Honourable Justice Esther Rosenberg
Ontario Court of Justice, Peterborough, Ontario