ISPS-US 10th Annual Meeting

Reminder: The 10th annual meeting of ISPS-US is coming up soon!  We will host a dinner in a private room at the Legacy Hotel on Saturday evening.  Please e-mail Karen Stern if you plan to attend (contact@isps-us.org), and bring 3 $20 bills per person, along with money for the cash bar.  After the conclusion of the presentations on Saturday, following Gail Hornstein’s book-signing, we will have a bus to drive you to the Fromm-Reichmann Cottage, a few blocks from the Courthouse.  The bus will be there to take you to the Legacy Hotel.   We would greatly appreciate your forwarding this message to colleagues and students who might want to attend.  The full program is accessible at www.isps-us.org.  There will be a welcoming reception at the Courthouse beginning at 6 p.m.  And you still can register for the three workshops being held at the Courthouse that evening, led by Marty Cosgro, Yulia Landa and Wilfried Ver Eecke. 

More info:

Register now for the ISPS-US 10th Annual Meeting!
Interpersonal Approaches to Treating Psychosis:  The Living Legacy of Chestnut Lodge
http://www.isps-us.org/

Friday evening through Sunday, October 2-4, 2009

At the Red Brick Courthouse
29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, MD 20850

Keynote Speaker:
John S. Kafka, M.S., M.D.
Harvesting Today the Fruits of Chestnut Lodge

Honoree:  Daniel Mackler, L.C.S.W.
Doing the “Impossible” Work in a Nearly Impossible System

Hosted by ISPS-US Baltimore/D.C.
Jointly sponsored by ISPS-US, Peerless Rockville and The Lifespan Learning Institute.
Up to 15.5 CEUs/CMEs will be offered.

This program will interest psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and other mental health professionals, as well as members of the lay public, including service users, interested in interpersonal approaches to treating psychosis.

ISPS-US, the U.S. Chapter of ISPS, was founded in 1998.  We promote the humane, comprehensive, and in-depth treatment of psychotic disorders.  We reach across the boundaries of the mental health professions to integrate a psycho-bio-social approach promoting secure attachment.

The Tenth Annual Meeting of ISPS-US honors the legacy of Chestnut Lodge, which was a beacon for the psychodynamic treatment of severe mental illness.  The Lodge was located an easy walk from the site of our meeting.  The Lodge’s Main Building, which sadly burned down in June, was the site of Joanne Greenberg’s autobiographic novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.  The home and office of her famous therapist, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, who wrote and taught The Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy, will be open.  Fromm-Reich-mann’s biographer, Gail Hornstein, PhD, will hold a book signing there.

We also remember other pioneering humanistic treatment programs, whose methods continue evolving, through the work of the Lodge’s former staff members and others.  Chestnut Lodge and its staff inspired many others to develop their own unique approaches to treating severe mental illness.  We will celebrate this continuing legacy through examples of the wide diversity in humanistic approaches to those suffering from psychosis.

Registration and more information are at http://www.isps-us.org. If you would like to receive a paper brochure, please e-mail your name and address to Karen Stern, contact@isps-us.org.