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ISPS-US has been hosting conferences since 1998. Take a look through our archives to learn more.

2023 Conference

2024 Archived Conference Sessions

Past Conferences

  • Humanity in Solidarity: Sharing the Journey Through Psychosis and Extreme States
    Newark, DE

    Keynote Speakers: Pat Deegan, PhD, Vesper Moore, Willard Ashley, MDiv

  • Opportunity Through Experience: Psychosis, Extreme States, and Possibilities for Transformation
    Sacramento, CA

    Keynotes: Celia Brown, Carlos Padrón, Lionel Corbett, MD

  • Moving Toward Shared Understandings in Psychosis and Extreme States: Professional, Individual, and Family Perspectives

    Keynote: Jaakko Seikkula, PhD
    Honoree: Keris Jän Myrick, MBA, MS


  • Love + Justice in Engaging Psychosis and Extreme States

    Keynote Speaker: Chacku Mathai
    Honoree: Michael Garrett, MD


  • Psychosis, Citizenship, and Belonging: Forging Pathways toward Inclusion and Healing
    New Haven, CT

    Keynote Speaker: Cindy Marty Hadge, IPS
    Honoree: Larry Davidson, PhD


  • Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wholeness in Extreme States
    Philadelphia, PA

    Keynote Speaker: Berta Britz, MSW, CPS
    Honoree: Krista MacKinnon


  • Psychosis in Context: Exploring Intersections in Diverse Identities and Extreme States
    Portland, Oregon

    Keynote Speaker: Gogo Ekhaya Esima
    Honoree: Narsimha Pinninti, MD


  • From Reductionism to Humanism: Moving Forward From Psychosis and Extreme States
    Boston, MA

    Keynote Speaker: Michael Stein, JD, PhD
    Honoree: Rai Waddingham


  • What's in a Name? Emerging Perspectives on the Intersection of Schizophrenia and Recovery
    New Brunswick, NJ

    Keynote Speaker: Debra Lampshire
    Honoree: Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD


  • Making Contact with the Depths: Psychosis as it is Lived
    Chicago, IL

    Keynoter: Danielle Bergeron, MD, FRCPC, FAPA
    Honoree: Jim Gottstein, Esq.


  • Beyond Pandora's Box: Exploring Integrative Approaches to Treating Psychosis.
    San Francisco, CA.

    Keynoter: Richard Bentall, PhD; Honoree: Ann-Louise Silver, MD


  • Psychosis, Trauma, and Human Connections: Building Community.
    Stockbridge, MA

    Keynoter: Joanne Greenberg, DHL; Honorees: Francoise Davoine, PhD & Jean-Max Gaudilliere, PhD


  • Interpersonal Approaches to Treating Psychosis: The Living Legacy of Chestnut Lodge.
    Rockville, MD

    Keynoter: John S. Kafka MD; Honoree: Daniel Mackler, LCSW


  • Recovery from Psychosis: Healing through Relationship.
    New York, NY

    Keynoter: Ronald Bassman, PhD, Honoree: Courtenay Harding, PhD


  • June 28-30, 2007 (Special Meeting)

    Transference and Symptoms of History. Paris, France and Vevey, Switzerland. Hosted by Franoise Davoine, Ph.D. and Jean-Max Gaudilliere, Ph.D. in Paris, and Dag Sderstrm in Vevey.


  • Trauma and Psychosis
    Santa Monica, CA

    Keynoter: Dori Laub, MD, (no honoree)


  • The Validity of Experience.
    Brookline, MA

    Keynoter: George Atwood, Ph.D. (no honoree)


  • Extremes of Experience: Psychosis through Many Lenses.
    Chicago, IL

    Keynoter: Leston Havens, MD Honoree: also Leston Havens, MD.


  • November 8 & 9, 2003 (5th Annual)

    The Mind Behind the Brain.
    Philadelphia, PA

    Keynoter: John Strauss, MD; Honoree: Anni Bergman, PhD


  • November 16 & 17, 2002; (4th Annual)

    Beyond the Wall: Contemporary Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Perspectives on Psychosis.
    New York, NY

    Keynoter: Robert Whitaker; Honoree: Bertram Karon, PhD


  • October 6, 2001 (3rd Annual)

    Celebrating Our Dialogue.
    Washington School of Psychiatry.

    Honoree: Maurice Green, MD (no keynoter).


  • October 7, 2000 (2nd Annual)

    Challenging the PORT Study.
    Washington School of Psychiatry.

    No keynoter or honoree.


  • October 2, 1999 (1st Annual)

    Psychodynamics and Psychoses: Creating Space for the Unaccommodated Self in Psychotic States.
    Washington School of Psychiatry.

    Four speakers, no keynoter. (Julie Kipp, LCSW, Christine Lynn, LICSW, Marvin Skolnik, Virginia Hendrickson.) Honoree in absentia: Harold Searles, MD


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