Virtual Fall Conference

October 13-14, 2023

11 CE/CME Credits

$125 / $25 for students & trainees

This conference will explore areas where bio and psycho and social intersect and will examine the utility of interdisciplinary engagement while asking the question of what medications are, beyond simple biological treatments. 

Thinking About Mental Illness

Of Two Minds, 30 Years Later

Fri, Oct 13 at 10:30 AM

Tanya Luhrmann, PhD

Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University

Fault Lines in Biopsychosocial Psychiatry: Integrative Aspirations and the Path Forward

Fri, Oct 13 at 11:30 AM

Awais Aftab, MD

Psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University

Diagnosis and its Discontents

Fri, Oct 13 at 1:00 PM

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP

Visiting Professor Emerita and Clinical Visiting Faculty, Rutgers University

Meaning and Medication

Meaning Effects and Health Equity

Fri, Oct 13 at 2:40 PM

Kathryn T. Hall, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Meaning & Medication: The Evidence Base

Fri, Oct 13 at 3:40 PM

Kyle Shepard, DO

Fellow in Psychiatry, Austen Riggs Center

Psychodynamic Technique in Pharmacotherapy 

Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology

Sat, Oct 14 at 10:10 AM

David Mintz, MD

Director of Psychiatric Education and Staff Psychiatrist, Austen Riggs Center

Challenges of Integrating Pharmacotherapy and Psychodynamics

Sat, Oct 14 at 11:10 AM

Haroula Konstantinidou, MD, MRCPsych

Consultant Medical Psychotherapist

Pharmacotherapy as a Psychotherapeutic Focus 

The Medication Life

Sat, Oct 14 at 1:15 PM

Alicia Powell, MD

Assistant Medical Director, Vinfen

Medication as Object

Sat, Oct 14 at 2:15 PM

Adele Tutter, MD, PhD

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University; Faculty, the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; and Director, the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences