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Education day for you in New Zealand

by Anna de Jonge

Our next education day will be Sunday 17 August, 2008.
at the Hamilton Garden, Cobham Drive Hamilton, New Zealand. Starting at 9.30 am.

We are showing International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and
Psychology  Conference,
 

“The Conscience of Psychiatry”  DVDs  2006 –

Mental Health and the Law.

*    The Law and Psychiatric Drugs:
      Strengths, Weaknesses, and Experience, Graham Dukes, MD.

Graham Dukes, M.D., L.L.M., of Oslo, Norway is the author, editor or
co-author of ten principle books, including The Law and Ethics of the
Pharmaceutical Industry, and has some 270 publications on national and
international health and drug policies and pricing in the scientific,
medical and legal literature  He has numerous appointments, including being
the Senior Consultant on Drug Policy for The World Bank Dr. Dukes will be
speaking on "Pharmaceuticals and Drug Policy."


*    International Human Rights and Civil Disability Cases.
      Michael Perlin, J.D.

Michael Perlin, JD, New York Law School professor and author of The Hidden
Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial, fourteen other books, and well over
175 scholarly articles on all aspects of mental health law.  Professor
Perlin will be speaking on "International Human Rights and Mental Disability
Law: The Universal Factors."

*    Medication Spellbinding, Iatrogenic Anosognosia:
      A New Concept.  Peter Breggin, MD.

Peter Breggin, M.D, Founder of ICSPP, noted author of numerous scientific
publications including Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac, will be
speaking on "Medication Spellbinding Iatrogenic Anosognosia: A New Concept."

Lunch 12.15 - 12.45

*    What Happens When the 1st Amendment
      Butts Heads with Special Interests. Stefan Kruszewski, MD.

Stefan P Kruszewski M.D., psychiatrist of conscience, was fired by the
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Bureau of Program Integrity after
uncovering fiscal  and pharmaceutical corruption and patient abuse,
resulting in grievous harm to children and adults , including multiple
deaths. Dr. Kruszewski's topic is "What happens when the 1st Amendment butts
heads with Special Interests."


*    SSRIs,  Akathisia, and Suicidality: The History of the FDA’s 2005.
      Black Box Warning on Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality.
      Joseph Glenmullen, MD.

Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., of Harvard Medical School, and author of Prozac
Backlash and The Antidepressant Solution will speak on "SSRIs, Akathisia,
and Suicidality: The History of the FDA's 2005 Black Box Warning on
Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality."


*    A Coordinated Campaign to Success fully
      Change the Mental Health System.  James Gottstein, J.D.

Jim Gottstein, JD, President and CEO of the Law Project for Psychiatric
Rights (PsychRights), recently won the landmark Myers Alaska Supreme Court
case which declared Alaska's forced drugging regime unconstitutional,
including that forced psychiatric drugging is unconstitutional if there is a
less intrusive alternative. PsychRights' mission is to mount a strategic
legal campaign against court ordered psychiatric drugging and Mr. Gottstein
will be speaking on "A Coordinated Campaign To Successfully Change the
Mental Illness System."

3.15  - 3.35 Afternoon tea

*    Parens Patriae, Parens Inscius:
      Beware the Dangers of the Incompetent State. Grace Jackson, MD.

Grace Jackson, M.D., author of Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide to
Informed Consent and psychiatrist of conscience.  Dr. Jackson will be
speaking on "Parens patriae, parens inscius: Beware the Dangers of the
Incompetent State."

*     Human Rights and People with Mental
       Health  Disabilities: The Issue of Capacity. Robert Dinerstein, J.D.

Robert Dinerstein, JD, professor of law at co-host American University's
Washington College of Law, specializing in the Americans with Disabilities
Act and the rights of people labeled with  mental illness, disability laws
in general, homelessness, civil rights, criminal justice, and lawyer-client
issues.

Registration $20.- morning, afternoon  tea and lunch available.

You should register as soon as possible, as demand means that seats will
fill up quickly. 

Looking forward to your reply.

Anna de Jonge and team
Patients Rights Advocate
65 Tawa Street  Hamilton
New Zealand

Ph: 07 843 5837

email:<rens.dej@clear.net.nz>
Web site   http://prawi.sartorelli.gen.nz

MENTAL HEALTH AND THE LAW will focus on the real-life intersection between
mental health and the law.

Thomas Bratter, Ed.D., Founder, President, and Primary Clinician of the John
Dewey Academy has over twenty years of practical and teaching experience and
published more than 150 articles and four books on treatment and education
of bright, oppositional, self-destructive, often drug dependent adolescents.

Karen Effrem, M.D., will be speaking on "The Origins and Dangers of Child
Mental Health Screening."
The rights of children and adults will be presented as well as
how these rights are honored or dishonored in practice.

The role of science is included in the curriculum as is the role of
alternatives to the traditional, coercive interventions against those
diagnosed with mental illness.

There will also be a two-session program on risk management and privacy for
psychotherapists/counselors who work without drugging patients/clients:

Susan Stefan, JD, former professor at University of Miami School of Law and
author of Unequal Rights: Discrimination against People with Mental
Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act and Hollow Promises:
Employment Discrimination Against People with Mental Disabilities, as well
as numerous articles and chapters on mental health law and disability law.
Ms. Stefan will be speaking on "Evolving Legal Views of Psychiatric
Evidence."

Lawyers Panel on "Prescription Drugs: Civil and Criminal Liability Cases and
Concepts." High-powered litigation lawyers,  Andy Vickery,  Don Farber,
Michael Mosher and Derek Braslow  join Dr. Breggin in a panel discussion of
the concepts behind prescription drug litigation and how they have played
out in specific important cases.

REGISTRATION FORM

Name________________________________________

Address______________________________________

Email________________________________________

Telephone____________________________________

Mail your registration form with payment to:
PRAWI  65 Tawa Street
Hamilton New Zealand
email:<rens.dej@clear.net.nz>
Web site
http://prawi.sartorelli.gen.nz

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