HomePeter R. Breggin, MD is no longer affiliated with the Center for the Study of Psychiatry, informally known as International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, which he founded and led from 1972-2002, and Dr. Breggin is no longer involved in its conferences.
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Co-Sponsored with "It's About Childhood and Family"
April 26-28, 2013 in Syracuse, New York State, USA
the Embassy Suites Syracuse Hotel
For Independent Counselors, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Educators
Empathic Therapy Master Class Presentation:
3 hour workshop with Bertram Karon, PhD & Peter Breggin, MD
Empathic Psychotherapy for Problems in Living
and Profound Emotional Disturbances
Special Keynote Speakers will include:
Lisbeth Riis Cooper: Mother Bear Community Action Network
Howard Glasser: The Nurtured Heart Approach
Chrisanne Gordon, MD: Resurrecting the Warrior with
Trauamatic Brain Injury: the 99% Solution
Mary Maddock: Survival and Transformation after Psychiatry
Peter Breggin MD: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal & Recovery
Special Topics Include:
•Protecting Children from the Dangers of Biological Psychiatry
•The Human Factor in Recovery and Well-Being
•Life-shortening and Brain Damaging Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
•Tardive Dyskinesia: An Epidemic Caused by Psychiatric Drugs
•Inspiring and Supporting Families Through a Crisis of Emotional Overwhelm
•Why ECT Needs to be Banned
•Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Partnering with Patients and Their Families
Highlights of Special Presenters (Invited)
•Peter R. Breggin, MD, Ithaca, New York, Empathic Therapy Center founder, psychiatrist and author of “Talking Back to Prozac,” “Medication Madness” and "Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families" addressing Empathic Therapy approaches to Well-Being and Partnering with Patients including during psychiatric drug withdrawal.
•Ginger R. Breggin, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy: Achieving Emotional Well-Being Instead of Madness
•Dorothy Cassidy, MEd, Special Education: Emotional Freedom Techniques for Adults and Children
•Ty Colbert, PhD, California: Working with Prison Patient Populations
•Lisbeth Riis Cooper: Founder of Mother Bear Community Action Network for Family Support and Recovery and the Cooper Riis Healing Community
•Michael Cornwall, PhD, psychologist and advocate for better mental health approaches.
•Nadine DeSanto, EdS: School psychologist: Emotional Freedom Techniques for Adults and Children
•Tom Garcia, LMHC, NCC, CAP: Empathic Therapy and Adlerian Principles--How they Work in Clinical Settings
•Michael Gilbert, PsyD, Syracuse, therapist and school psychologist, Advocating For The Social-Emotional Well-Being of Our Children
•Howard Glasser, The Nurtured Heart Approach--Encouraging Well-Being in Children, Families and Adults
•Brenda LeFrancois, PhD: Associate Professor of Social Work at Memorial University, Canada: Children and Trauma
•Mary Maddock: Citizen of Ireland, international leader in the movement of psychiatric survivors to transform mental health care, vocal ECT critic, and author of Soul Survivor: A Personal Encounter with Psychiatry
•Gerald Porter, PhD., Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, Springfield, Missouri: Frontiers of Psychotherapy and Empathic Therapy
•Gayle Rozantine, PhD, The Center for Health & Well-Being, Atlanta, Georgia: A Clinic with Innovative Approaches to Stress and Trauma
•Piet Westdijk, MD, psychiatrist, Switzerland: Creating Meaningful ‘I thou’ Relationships in Therapy
•And more to be announced
Special Saturday Evening Desserts and Presentation
(to be announced)
Our "Meet the Authors" Friday Night Social
Friday Evening with the Famous Chocolate Fountain
AND MUCH MORE--Best Selling Authors, International Experts, Professors and Educators, Attorneys, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Physicians, Innovative Practitioners, and Advocates
More than 20 Continuing Education Credits!
"One of the best CE values available"
Continuing Education for Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Chemical Dependency Counselors, and Nurses
Register today to attend this exciting, forward thinking conference ~ Join Peter and Ginger Breggin and the other conference speakers in Syracuse, New York State, April 26-28, 2013!
What People are saying about our 2012 & 2011 Empathic Therapy Conferences
"Having just returned from the 2012 Empathic Therapy Conference I wanted to express my appreciation for all the presenters. In over 25 years of practice I can truly say this was the most beneficial and inspiring medical meeting I have attended. My caseload includes the mentally distressed and I know this conference would be invaluable to any discipline involved in healthcare. Thank you so much to Dr. Breggin and Ginger," John Artman OTR/L CHT
"The Empathic Therapy Conference surpassed my expectations. You expect a professional conference to be informative but this was much more. I left with new ideas but more importantly I was inspired and reinvigorated in my work. The healing power of empathy was enlaborated on and explored from every angle. This was a rich sharing of ideas and affect, humane clinical practices, and a thoroughgoing critique of the status quo in mental health. Dr. Peter Breggin in producing this conference has shown himself not only a passionate and informed critic of psychiatric drug therapies but has given voice and thereby empowered those who have been abused by those very therapies. Beyond the critique the conference offered many constructive and viable alternatives that are cost effective and affirming of the humanity of patients." Gerald Porter, PhD, Dean of the School of Natural Arts and Sciences at Bastyr University.
"I just returned from Dr. Peter Breggin's Empathic Therapy conference in Syracuse, New York. It was a great conference, and wonderful to be surrounded by hundreds of people--psychiatrists, neurologists, family doctors, psychologists, social workers, recovered consumers, family advocates--from all over the country who see the falseness and harm of the biopsychiatric model. For once, I felt like I wasn't stranded on an island by myself." Mark Foster, D.O. from his blog on "Mad in America."
"I am eagerly anticipating attending the next Empathic Therapy Conference in April 2012, after such a wonderful and uplifting experience at the conference this April 2011 in Syracuse, NY. This year’s conference was a coming together of caring individuals with much to offer in terms of talents, understandings, perceptions, real life affirming choices, and vital information, all without the usual recommendation of toxic drugs. I am grateful to Peter and Ginger Breggin for bringing this event and future conferences about. Dorothy Cassidy, Academic Coach and Special Education Teacher
"Wow! What a nice experience at the Empathy Therapy Conference. Much, much more than I expected (with years of conferences). Ginger, the planning, execution, and oversight was flawless! I've never experienced anything like this working so smoothly. More specifically, the choice of presenters was great -- each one well prepared and having something unusual and stimulating to say. And there was a ryhthm about the whole thing,-- a lack of sameness, some more emotional, some more intellectual. The panel of "victims" of antidepressant malice had me, along with this huge professional hockey player beside me, in tears. Thanks! This conference brought the whole thing together about antidepressants in a more profound way. I liked the interaction with presenters and participants alike. Bottom line: I wasn't bored once -- and that's, I think, a first! It was so good to be with people -- really smart people, that I felt so much respect for, who approach troubled people (aren't we all, at times) and their issues with a similar philosophy and understanding. The most important benefit most likely in the long run: I don't feel so all alone!" John Snyder, EdD, psychotherapist and author of Flying Lessons.
"It is Tuesday, 2 days post conference, and my head is just beginning to wind down. The talent and collective wisdom that gathered on that early spring weekend in Syracuse surpassed everyone's conscious or unconscious expectations. Peter's leadership and Ginger's guidance produced a professional experience that will be studied well into the future as a standard by which learning as a group will be measured. I believe that the film of this event, and the training film Peter produced, will spur growth and health in our professions, and will stand as permanent, undeniable statements of what is possible in the provision of truly therapeutic services. I, and all our current and future patients, thank you." Richard F. Gottlieb, MSW, psychotherapist.
"This is life-changing for our culture! What an excellent speaker!"
"Love this guy--wish I could go to his conference."
"Very convincing, knowledgeable, caring, thoughtful, great!"
Dr. Peter Breggin's
Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education and Living
Presents
The 2013
Empathic Therapy Conference
