New York, NY (1888PressRelease)
May 05, 2009 - The Association for Youth, Children and Natural Psychology (AYCNP) works to encourage self help and non-pharmaceutical solutions in mental health. The notes to the discussions on recovery in schizophrenia are here to provide insight into both positive solutions, and the limitations of current psychiatric practice with regards to the treatment of schizophrenia.
Dr. Elyn Saks, one of the hosts of the discussions is an author and Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences. Training to be a psychoanalyst, she specializes in mental health law, criminal law, and children and the law. Her recent research focused on ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of the mentally ill.
She teaches Mental Health Law, Mental Health Law and the Criminal Justice System, and Advanced Family Law: The Rights and Interests of Children. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Law at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. In her capacity as associate dean, Dean Saks oversees research and grants at USC Law.
Dean Saks herself suffers with schizhophrenia, and she courageously published several books, one of which recounts her own experiences with the disorder, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hyperion, 2007), a memoir about her struggles and successes with schizophrenia and acute psychosis.
Other publications from Dean Saks include Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (Yale University Press, 1999), and Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (with Stephen H. Behnke, New York University Press, 1997). She is inspirational in that her academic success as a professor and author, and as an activist in upholding the rights of the mentally ill, helps dispel erronous ideas that the mentally ill are a throw away item.
Martin S. Willick, M.D. is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyist who practices in New Jersey, whose compassionate character facilitated an open discussion on the subject of recovery in schizophrenia. Both Dean Saks and Dr. Willick shed light on the current state of mental healtlh treatment in the United States, it's successes and limitations, and the ensuing discussion from both professionals, individuals with schizophrenia, and parents, led to an interesting and eye opening look into the search for treatment and cure from this disabling disorder.
We invite you to review the notes of these discussions. The notes will be released from May 4 to May 9 in three parts.
http://www.winmentalhealth.com/schiznotes.php
Additionally the AYCNP has produced a new web page on depression, including the topics of depression, major depression, childhood depression and recovery, the benefits of CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy), and the limitations of drug therapy. http://www.winmentalhealth.com/depression.php
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