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Friday, November 6
 

8:00am EST

Coffee & Registration
Friday November 6, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EST

Friday November 6, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EST
  Coffee & Registration

9:15am EST

Keynote Speaker - The Hope of Harm Reduction: New Strategies for Building Connection Across Realities (Hybrid)
Friday November 6, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Harm reduction philosophy and approaches have made great headway in reducing alienation and deaths of despair in the world of substance use.  How can we apply the lessons of these models and community spaces to our work supporting people in non-consensus reality states?  What might we gain by letting go of practices that focus on control or reality-checking and starting to embrace...
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Speakers
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Caroline Mazel-Carlton, CPS, BA

Director of Learning Opportunities, Wildflower Alliance
Caroline Mazel-Carlton is a voice-hearer, a former IV drug user and a survivor of institutional trauma in both the psychiatric and criminal legal systems.  She now works to promote harm reduction, hope and human rights as the Director of Learning Opportunities for the Wildflower... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Keynote, Hybrid

10:30am EST

Break
Friday November 6, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am EST

Friday November 6, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am EST
  Break

10:45am EST

Keynote Speaker - Urhomelessness: Understanding Psychosis as a Person-World Experience (Hybrid)
Friday November 6, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
What if psychosis was not only related to the social world, but also fundamentally constituted by both person and world? This presentation will offer a social-phenomenological understanding of psychosis as an experience that is constituted through person-world configurations. Predominant historical conceptualizations of psychosis have located the experience within individuals, often minimizing the...
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Speakers
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Sarah Kamens, PhD

Editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology
Sarah R. Kamens, PhD is a clinical psychologist and interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on theories of mental distress, including phenomenological-existential approaches to psychosis and structural violence. Kamens holds an MA in Communication from the European Graduate... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Keynote, Hybrid

12:00pm EST

Lunch (On Own)
Friday November 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Lunch on your own.

Please enjoy the many great eateries that New York City has to offer!
Friday November 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
  Lunch

12:00pm EST

Virtual Meet & Greet with Ellenhorn
Friday November 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Virtual Room
Join us for a meet and greet with conference sponsors Ellenhorn!For more than 20 years, Ellenhorn has redefined behavioral health care through its innovative "hospital without walls" model, delivering psychiatric and psychosocial support directly in clients' communities. Grounded in the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) model, Ellenhorn helps adults preserve their independence,...
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Friday November 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Virtual Room
  Meet & Greet, Virtual Only

1:30pm EST

Beyond Coercion: Reimagining Legal Responses to Psychosis (Hybrid)
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Beyond Coercion: Reimagining Legal Responses to Psychosis1:30-2:30 Everyday Coercion: Interrogating the Economic, Social, and Procedural Costs of Assisted Outpatient Treatment - Nev Jones PhD, Todd Wittenberg, Melissa Uehling MD PhD, Lauren Fowler, Shannon Pagdon MSW2:30-3pm INSTEAD Mental Health Diversion: An Off-ramp to Care and Support for Individuals Arrested While in "Psychosis" or Extreme...
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Speakers
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Nev Jones PhD

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Nev Jones, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Director of PathLab, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Bioethics. Her research examines coercive psychiatric treatment, early psychosis services, and... Read More →
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Allie Dougharty, LCSW

INSTEAD Program Director, Ubuntu Village NOLA
Allie has been living in New Orleans for the 10 years and working as social worker for the past 5 years.  She has background in building mutual aid networks, harm reduction outreach for PWID, and tenants’ rights organizing.  She approaches social work with a focus on genuine relationships... Read More →
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Lauren Fowler

Research Coordinator, University of Pittsburgh
Lauren earned her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. After graduating, she worked in a clinical neurophysiology research lab in Pittsburgh studying first-episode psychosis. Through this experience, along with her own lived experience... Read More →
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Todd Wittenberg

Peer Trainer, Greater Mental Health
Todd Wittenberg is a native New Yorker who has been working in the Peer Specialist Field for 10 years. He has served in many capacities include one-on-one field work, group facilitation in a jail, OnTrack NY, Crisis intervention, research, and he is now co-leader of a Peer Training... Read More →
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Melissa Uehling MD, PhD

PGY-1; Psychiatry Resident, Yale University School of Medicine
Melissa Uehling, MD, PhD is a PGY-1 in the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program and NRTP. She received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Alabama, and went on to complete her MD and PhD in sociology at Emory University. Her doctoral work focused on subjectivity... Read More →
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Shannon Pagdon MSW

Doctoral Student, University of Pittsburgh
Shannon Pagdon, MSW, is a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Her work brings together early psychosis services, peer support, lived experience co-production, stigma, and the phenomenology of psychosis. Grounded in lived experience and a background... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid

1:30pm EST

Metacognitive Frameworks for Social Connection and Creative Engagement (In-Person Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
Metacognitive Frameworks for Social Connection and Creative Engagement 1:30-2:15pm Complex Trauma and Metacognition: From Concrete Symptom to Creative Engagement - Marilyn Charles, PhD, APP, Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, Danielle Frank, LCSW2:15-3pm Reconnecting with Others: Metacognition and Social Recovery in Psychosis - Courtney Wiesepape, PsyD, HSPP, Jessica Garrelts, MS, Marlee Gieselman,...
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Speakers
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Danielle Frank, LCSW

Staff Psychotherapist, Lenox Hill Hospital Outpatient Center for Mental Health
Danielle Frank is a clinical social worker, with experience in community mental health, college counseling andhospital settings and is also in private practice. Her interests include trauma, gender/sexuality, psychoanalytic treatment ofpsychosis, and the psychic implications of sociopolitical... Read More →
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Marilyn Charles, PhD, APP

Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, Austen Riggs Center
Marilyn Charles is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Universidad de Monterrey... Read More →
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Courtney Wiesepape, PsyD, HSPP

Assistant Professor, Indiana State University
Courtney Wiesepape, PsyD, HSPP [she/her] is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Indiana State University, where she teaches, mentors, and supervises graduate and undergraduate students. She is the founder and director of the Metacognition for... Read More →
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Jessica Garrelts, MS

PsyD student, Department of Psychology, Indiana State University
Jessica Garrelts is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at Indiana State University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a minor in biology from Butler University in Indianapolis, IN in 2018. She later earned her master’s degree in psychology from... Read More →
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Marlee Gieselman, BS

PsyD student, Department of Psychology, Indiana State University
Marlee Gieselman is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at Indiana State University. She earned her B.S. in psychological sciences at Western Kentucky University, and her research interests include suicide risk and serious mental illness, particularly as they relate... Read More →
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Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD

Associate Director of Admissions, Austen Riggs Center
Jeremy Ridenour is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center where he serves as Staff Psychologist, Associate Director of Admission, and Director of Psychological Testing. He has published various articles on psychosis and the personality assessment. Jeremy Ridenour... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Navigating Voice Hearing - Experiential Workshops (In-Person Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Navigating Voice Hearing - Experiential Workshops1:30-2:15pm Supporting Voices in Times of Crisis - Cindy Marty Hadge, Sasha Bunbar2:15-3pm Who Is Afraid of the Voices? Rebuilding the Social Link Through Theater and Voice Dialogue - Yulia Landa, PsyD, MS, Jessica Levitt, CDA, Michael Jacobs, PhD, Christina Asig, MDSupporting Voices in Times of Crisis - Cindy Marty Hadge, Sasha...
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Speakers
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Yulia Landa, PsyD, MS

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Treatment and Prevention of Psychosis Research and Clinical Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Yulia Landa, PsyD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment and Prevention of Psychosis Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Landa completed a postdoctoral fellowship in schizophrenia treatment and research at Weill Medic... Read More →
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Jessica Levitt, CDA

Jessica lives in New York City. She holds a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential. She works with children receiving cancer treatment, supporting their emotional well-being through play, creative activities, and therapeutic
engagement. Her interest in art complements her work by highlighting children's creativity, resilience, and capacity for self-expression... Read More →
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Michael Jacobs, PhD

Dr. Michael Jacobs has over 15 years of experience working with clients in different capacities who have mental health challenges. Prior to becoming a psychologist, Michael worked as a vocal coach, a voice teacher, and has a decade of experience as a professional musical theater performer... Read More →
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Cindy Marty Hadge

Roots Up
Cindy Marty Hadge is an internationally recognized trainer and public speaker on topics including the Hearing Voices Movement, trauma, suicide and more. For many years, she worked for the Wildflower Alliance, founding the first ever on-line family & friends Hearing Voices Group in... Read More →
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Sasha Dunbar

Roots Up
Sasha Dunbar (all pronouns) is in awe of the ever-unfolding wisdom of community. Being multi-heritage (Jamaica+Scotland), Black and queer from NYC informs how they connect to the world and all of its stories. They were relieved to learn about peer support after a time of struggle and spiritual... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Track (In-Person Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
This panel is a continuation of panels presented for the past 4 years that focus on an in-depth discussion of clinical work with an individual diagnosed with psychosis via a detailed reading and discussion of a psychotherapy transcript.  It serves as an extension of discussions that are held in an ongoing basis during our ISPS-US/CCP case conference, although anyone with an interest in...
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Speakers
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Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP

Co-Chair, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP, is a psychoanalyst, writer and psychotherapy activist in Evanston IL. She is currently vice-president of ISPS-US, co-chair of Expanded Mental Health Services of Chicago, NFP, and a board member, past-president and core faculty member of the Chicago Center for... Read More →
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Zak Mucha, LCSW

President, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Zak Mucha, LCSW is a psychoanalyst in Chicago and the author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis and Street-Corner Social Work, Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self Defense, and two collections of poetry.
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Adam Weg, LCSW

Primary Clinician, Lenox Hill Hospital
Adam Weg, LCSW practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York City, with a special interest in the psychoanalysis of “serious mental illness.” He also works in the Early Treatment Program at Lenox Hill Hospital, and is an Associate Faculty Member at the Chicago Center for... Read More →
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Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz

PhD Candidate, Duquesne University
Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Duquesne University. He is a member of ISPS-US and associate clinical faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Michael works psychoanalytically with small children, adolescents, and adults.
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

The Transformative Power of Peers (Virtual Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Virtual Room
The Transformative Power of Peers1:30-2pm The Role of Peer Specialists & Radical Powerlessness - Abaigeal (Abbe) Duke, Elise Diamond2-2:30pm Redefining Community and Enlarging Connection: Peer Support on Discord from Wildflower Alliance - Claudia Wilson, MSW, MFA, Michal Ditkoff2:30-3pm The Peer Message in the Psychiatric Hospital - Patrick Kaufmann, CPSS, CPRC, BS, Shannon Kaufmann, CPSS,...
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Speakers
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Michal Ditkoff

Michal Ditkoff (they/them) is a student at Brandeis University and graduate of Brookline High School (class of 2023). Currently, they are on the Wildflower Alliance Discord Moderation Team, focusing on online peer-support offerings. They have been an advocate for the mental health... Read More →
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Abaigeal (Abbe) Duke

Recovery Specialist & Trainer Supervisor, OnTrackNY/CPI/ NYSPI
Abbe Duke(she,her,hers) is the Recovery Specialist & Trainer Supervisor at OnTrackNY.  Abbe is a long time Peer Specialist who has worked in a variety of settings throughout New York State’s mental health system.   Operating from perspectives of liberation and systems transformation... Read More →
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Elise Diamond

Recovery Specialist & Trainer, OnTrackNY/ CPI/ NYSPI
Elise Diamond (they/them/theirs) is a Recovery Specialist & Trainer at OnTrackNY. Elise is mostly a gardener, but has also been a Peer Specialist and trainer for awhile. They spend a lot of time thinking about healing and liberation, and they’d probably like to talk about that with... Read More →
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Claudia Wilson, MSW, MFA

Coordinator of Online Alt2Su Supports, Wildflower Alliance
Claudia Wilson is a Black, Trans writer and peer-supporter from Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. They studied Social Work and Black Literature in college and earned their MFA from UMASS Amherst. Their work lives at the intersections of identity, memory, and becoming—and is deeply rooted... Read More →
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Patrick Kaufmann, CPSS, CPRC, BS

Peer Support Specialist, Recovery Institute of Southwest Michigan, Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital
Patrick Kaufmann works at Recovery Institute of Southwest Michigan, an organization that contracts with Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital.  He applies his first-hand experience to connect with patients not only having been hospitalized there long term but also specifically as a voice... Read More →
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Shannon Kaufmann, CPSS, ITE

CEO, Wellness Concepts
Shannon Kaufmann is a peer support who has utilized peer experience to lead a wellness center, create a healing from trauma program, and spearhead a statewide project that brought peer support into the psychiatric hospitals for the first time.  She was the recipient of the Peer of... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

3:00pm EST

Break
Friday November 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EST

Friday November 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EST
  Break

3:30pm EST

Disalienation as System Change: Relational and Community Approaches to Recovery (Virtual Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EST
Virtual Room
Disalienation as System Change: Relational and Community Approaches to Recovery3:30-4:15pm Alienation, Trauma, and the Voice That Speaks: Understanding Psychosis Spectrum Experiences Through a Social-Relational Lens - Carina A. Iati, PsyD, Jeannie Bass, CPS4:15-4:45pm Housing as Key to Social Connections and Improved Health - Joël Doty, MA, MBAAlienation, Trauma, and the Voice That Speaks:...
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Carina A. Iati, PsyD

Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Carina A. Iati, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in psychosis spectrum experiences, complex trauma, and the unique needs of transitional age youth. She earned her doctorate from Indiana State University and completed advanced training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School/Worcester... Read More →
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Jeannie Bass, CPS

Director of Peer Support, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Jeannie Bass, CPS, is a Certified Peer Specialist with over a decade of experience providing peer support in the public sector, community, and private mental health settings. She is a recognized leader in the international Hearing Voices Movement. Jeannie brings her lived experience... Read More →
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Joël Doty, MA, MBA

Director, Community Village Group
Joël is the founder of the organization Advocates for Supportive Housing and the director of the non-profit, Community Village Group in Ann Arbor, MI. She is the mother of an adult child with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. She and her group are primarily senior citizens who worry... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

3:30pm EST

Creative Expression in Recovery - Arts Workshops (In-Person Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Creative Expression in Recovery - Arts Workshops3:30-4:15pm Alleged Lunatic Society: Creative Writing Workshop - Eliot Duncan, D Mortimer4:15-5pm Beyond Origami: Expressive Origami Therapy as the Therapeutic Tool for Multiple Dysfunctions - Toshiko Kobayashi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCATAlleged Lunatic Society: Creative Writing Workshop - Eliot Duncan, D MortimerTwo authors with lived experience, Eliot...
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Speakers
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Eliot Duncan

Author and Educator
Eliot is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His debut novel, PONYBOY (Norton, ’23), was the first book with a trans protagonist to be nominated for The National Book Award. He teaches a workshop called Exquisite Love: Madness as Divinity... Read More →
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D. Mortimer

D Mortimer is a writer, lecturer, and interdisciplinary humanities researcher specialising in experimental and hybrid writing practices. Their work spans poetry, hybrid prose, performance, and curatorial practice, engaging questions of gender, embodiment, disability, and literary... Read More →
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Toshiko Kobayashi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT

Director, Origami Therapy Association
Toshiko Kobayashi is a Board-Certified Art Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, and the founder of Expressive Origami Therapy (EOT). Kobayashi has dedicated her career to integrating traditional cultural practices with trauma-informed care. She served as a Senior Art Therapist and Clinical... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:30pm EST

From Control to Connection: Human Rights Aligned Approaches (In-Person Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
From Control to Connection: Human Rights Aligned Approaches3:30-4pm Lived Wisdom, Dialogic Practice, Trust, and Respect: Best Practices from a Human Rights Perspective - Claire Bien, MEd4-4:30pm In the Openness of the Beast's Eye: A Study of a Different Response to the Crisis in Mental Health in a Brazilian City - Jana Koosah, PhD Student4:30-5pm Provision of Psychological and Psychosocial...
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Speakers
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Claire Bien, MEd

Research Associate, Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health
Claire Bien, MEd, is a research associate at the Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health; mental health advocate and educator; and author of a memoir, Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head. She is treasurer of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) and a board member and immediate past president of ISPS-US. She served as a board member of the Hearing Voices Network (HVN)-USA from 2019. Claire speaks widely about her experience... Read More →
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Jana Koosah, PhD Student

PhD Student, Universidade de São Paulo, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Psychologist and doctoral researcher Jana Koosah is currently conducting her doctoral research in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of São Paulo. Her research examines responses to crisis situations within community-based, non-institutional mental health care... Read More →
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Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:30pm EST

Transforming Clinical Education: Lived Experience and Meaning-Centered Care (In-Person Only)
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
Transforming Clinical Education: Lived Experience and Meaning-Centered Care3:30-4:15pm Out of the Shadows and Into the Classroom: Integrating Lived Experience into Education and Training About Psychosis - Philip T. Yanos, PhD, Evan Auguste, PhD, Emese Ilyés, PhD, Ethel Kirabo Nalule, MSc, Madi Barber BS4:15pm-5pm Opening the Door: Resident and Patient Perspectives on Meaning-Focused Care in...
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Camila Camacho

Camila is a graduate student in public health and a qualitative research coder and analyst with interests in health communication and human rights advocacy. She has contributed to qualitative research examining therapeutic relationships and to research focused on hearing healthcare... Read More →
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Philip Yanos, PhD

Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Philip Yanos, PhD is a professor in the psychology department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  He is the author of the books Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential (2018) and Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's ... Read More →
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Rachel Waford, PhD, ABPP

Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor, Consulting Psychologist, Early Psychosis Clinic Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Grady Health System Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Rachel Waford, PhD, ABPP is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist in Atlanta, GA. She is an Assistant Professor at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Hubert Department of Global Health and Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry... Read More →
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Punita Peketi, MD

Psychiatry Resident, Emory University
Punita Peketi will complete her psychiatry residency at Emory University in July 2026. She earned her MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University and her bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences, with a minor in psychology, from the University of Akron.  Her interest in psychiatry grew... Read More →
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Saritha Venkataram

Masters Student in Clinical Psychology, American University
Saritha Venkataram is an MA in clinical psychology student at American University where her research interests center on the patient and therapist process, including training. She served as a research coordinator exploring the impact of long-term psychotherapy on patient experience... Read More →
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Ethel Kirabo Nalule, MSc

Doctoral Student, John Jay College/CUNY Graduate Center
Ethel Kirabo Nalule is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice / CUNY Graduate Center. Inspired by bell hooks and Paulo Freire, she views education as a practice of freedom, recognizing that when a student walks into and out of... Read More →
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Madi Barber, BS

Doctoral Student, John Jay College/CUNY Graduate Center
Madi Barber is a second year PhD student in Clinical Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver where she earned a BS in psychology. In her undergraduate work, Madi engaged in a variety of research projects including... Read More →
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Evan Auguste, PhD

Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Evan Auguste, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology with a major area of focus in forensic psychology at Fordham University in 2022. Auguste is a 2014 graduate of Middlebury College. He identities... Read More →
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Emese Ilyés, PhD

Doctoral Lecturer, John Jay College
Emese Ilyés, PhD, is a Doctoral Lecturer in Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, where she teaches liberation psychology, research methods, and participatory action research. Her scholarship centers on decolonial methodologies, community... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:30pm EST

Young People, Families, and Recovery in Early Psychosis (Hybrid)
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Young People, Families, and Recovery in Early Psychosis3:30-4:15pm Family Recovery in First Episode Psychosis: Perspective from Georgia’s Peer Workforce and Team Leads - Beth Broussard, MPH CHES, Emily Griner, MPH, Sophie Pollack-Milgate, BA, Angie S. Williams4:15pm-5pm Negotiating Identities: Supporting Recovery During the Transition to Adulthood - Michaela I. Fissel, MAFamily Recovery in First...
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Speakers
avatar for Beth Broussard, MPH, CHES

Beth Broussard, MPH, CHES

Academic Research Scientist, Emory University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Beth Broussard, MPH, CHES, is an Academic Research Scientist at Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is the Director of Early Intervention for the Clinical and Research Program for Psychosis at Grady Health System. She completed... Read More →
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Emily Griner, MPH

Research Projects Manager, Emory University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emily Griner, MPH, is a Research Projects Manager at Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She assists with the execution and analysis of a variety of clinical and socio-behavioral research conducted within the Clinical and Research... Read More →
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Sophie Pollack-Milgate, BA

Graduate Research Assistant, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Laney Graduate School
Sophie Pollack-Milgate, BA, is a master’s student in Public Health and Bioethics at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and Laney Graduate School. Before coming to Emory, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Contemplative Studies from Brown University and worked... Read More →
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Angie S. Williams

Youth & Young Adult Peer Coordinator, Aspire Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Services
Angie S. Williams is a behavioral health professional with over 16 years of experience at Aspire Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Services. She serves as Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Coordinator and LIPT Chairperson, where she promotes collaboration, advocacy... Read More →
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Michaela I. Fissel, MA,

Executive Director, Advocacy Unlimited, Inc.
Michaela holds a masters in conscious studies and transpersonal psychology with a concentration in supporting recovery during the transition to adulthood through a generationally relevant and developmentally appropriate approach. Bringing 18 years of research, practice, and instruction... Read More →
Friday November 6, 2026 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid
 
Saturday, November 7
 

8:00am EST

Coffee & Registration
Saturday November 7, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EST

Saturday November 7, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EST
  Coffee & Registration

9:15am EST

Keynote Speaker: Racial Disparities in Psychosis: Why Social Factors and Neighborhoods Matter (Hybrid)
Saturday November 7, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
This lecture will describe how structural racism is connected to social determinants of psychosis outcomes and risk, and how this contributes to racial disparities in psychosis. Evidence from national epidemiologic, clinical high risk, and first episode psychosis samples, and from multi-method studies (e.g., qualitative) will be used to illustrate these connections. Neighborhood and...
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Speakers
avatar for Deidre M. Anglin, PhD

Deidre M. Anglin, PhD

Associate Professor, The City College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Dr. Deidre Anglin is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialized postdoctoral research training in psychiatric epidemiology from Columbia University. Dr. Anglin is a Professor in the Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program at The City College of the City University of New York... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Keynote, Hybrid

10:30am EST

Break
Saturday November 7, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am EST

Saturday November 7, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am EST
  Break

10:45am EST

Plenary Panel: The Impact of Involuntary Outpatient Commitment: Findings from a Comprehensive Evaluation of New York State’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program (Hybrid)
Saturday November 7, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Forty-eight US states currently have statutes that allow for the issuance of involuntary outpatient commitment orders, with programs frequently named Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT], in which a civil court issues a 6-12 month “order” to comply with community-based treatment.  New York State’s program, initiated after the 1999 Kendra Webdale incident and the subsequent passage of...
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Philip Yanos, PhD

Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Philip Yanos, PhD is a professor in the psychology department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  He is the author of the books Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential (2018) and Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's ... Read More →
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Nev Jones, PhD

Associate Profssor, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work
Nev Jones, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Director of PathLab, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Bioethics. Her research examines coercive psychiatric treatment, early psychosis services, and... Read More →
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Pablo Sadler, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Bureau of Mental Health, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Pablo Sadler, MD, MPH works as a community psychiatrist and serve as the Medical Director for the Bureau of Mental Health at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Over the last 30 years, his clinical work in various community mental health centers throughout New York State... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Plenary Panel, Hybrid

12:00pm EST

Lunch (On Own)
Saturday November 7, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Lunch on your own.

Please enjoy the many great eateries that New York City has to offer!
Saturday November 7, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
  Lunch

12:00pm EST

Virtual Meet & Greet with Ellenhorn
Saturday November 7, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Virtual Room
Join us for a meet and greet with conference sponsors Ellenhorn!For more than 20 years, Ellenhorn has redefined behavioral health care through its innovative "hospital without walls" model, delivering psychiatric and psychosocial support directly in clients' communities. Grounded in the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) model, Ellenhorn helps adults preserve their independence,...
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Saturday November 7, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Virtual Room
  Meet & Greet, Virtual Only

1:30pm EST

Contextualizing Psychosis: Society, Culture, and Lived Experience (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #1
Contextualizing Psychosis: Society, Culture, and Lived Experience1:30-2pm Rethinking Psychosis: A Lived Experience Perspective - Kristen Koniuch, BS2-2:30pm The Role of Societal Factors on the Thematic Content of Hallucinations and Delusions - Skye Wood, MARethinking Psychosis: A Lived Experience Perspective - Kristen Koniuch, BSThis presentation explores how cultural, social, and political...
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Skye Wood, MA

Skye Wood, MA is a 28-year-old living with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type with a strong interest in deepening understanding psychosis and the schizophrenia spectrum. Skye hold a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Language Sciences from Virginia Tech and an MA in Media Studies... Read More →
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Kristen Koniuch, BS, MA Student

Student, Lesley University
Kristen Koniuch is originally from Long Island, New York. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Public Health and Policy Studies from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Expressive Arts Therapy at Lesley... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #1
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Madness and the Social Link: Forty Years of Our Paris Seminar (Hybrid)
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
For forty years, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere co-led a weekly seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, alternating leadership annually.  The Seminar was wide-ranging, focusing on literary and historical themes and on the social context of madness, with an ongoing focus on war trauma as seen through the lives of writers and the characters they...
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Francoise Davoine, PhD

Françoise Davoine is a psychoanalyst, author, and researcher whose pioneering work has shaped contemporary understandings of psychosis, trauma, and the social dimensions of mental suffering. She practiced for more than 30 years in a public psychiatric hospital in France, alongside... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid

1:30pm EST

Psychiatric Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Difference (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
Psychiatric Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Difference1:30-2pm Psychiatric Discourse and the Boundaries of Belonging - Michelle Goodwin2-2:30pm From Grief to Possibility: Thinking Queer Theory with Psychosis - Brett ThatcherPsychiatric Discourse and the Boundaries of Belonging - Michelle GoodwinThis presentation examines how psychiatric discourse influences belonging by shaping how...
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Brett Thatcher, LICSW

Clinician, Gould Farm
Brett Thatcher (he/him), LICSW, is a clinician at Gould Farm and a psychotherapist in private practice.  He has Masters degrees in theological studies and social work from Boston College and has completed postgraduate training in intersubjective psychotherapy and mentalization-based... Read More →
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Michelle Goodwin, PhD, LMHC

licensed mental health counselor, adjunct professor, social researcher, community member
Michelle Goodwin, PhD, LMHC is a licensed mental health counselor with over a decade of experience in community-based settings across Massachusetts. Her work has been shaped by years inside traditional psychiatric systems, where questions of dignity, voice, and belonging became central... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Shaped by Systems: How Institutions and Intolerable Environments Shape 'Psychosis' (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Shaped by Systems: How Institutions and Intolerable Environments Shape 'Psychosis1:30-2pm Operationalization and Madness: How Mental Healthcare Institutions Reproduce Social Alienation - Jack McEnroe, BA2-2:30pm Observations Into the Shaping of 'Psychosis' Behaviours: When Intolerable Living Conditions Combine with Bad Discursive Communities to Shape Strategies of Disengagement and Secrecy - Adan...
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Jack McEnroe, BA

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, Adelphi University: Gordon F. Derner Center of Psychological Services
Jack McEnroe, BA is a rising third-year doctoral student at Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology. Before beginning his training, he worked in community mental healthcare as a care coordinator, an experience that shaped his interest in psychosis and how mental... Read More →
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Adan Charles Richards

PhD Candidate/Shift Lead at The Humane Clinic's Just Listening Community, Adelaide University
Adan C. Richards spent several years as a peer worker and support worker across NGO mental health settings in South Australia, working alongside people subject to coercive and compulsory treatment. That work positioned him as a monitor on behalf of systems where clients could not... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Three People, One Lineage: Psychosis, Social Fracture, and What Healing Actually Requires - A Collaborative Lived Experience Panel in Three Voices (Virtual Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Virtual Room
This panel brings together three Indian presenters, one in the British diaspora, two based in India, spanning three decades of age. Two have lived inside psychosis and emerged with something to say about the world that produced it. All three work with clients who experience psychosis, and all three carry an intimate understanding of what it costs to put these experiences into words: the shame, the...
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Neelam Khawani-Connett, BA (Hons), IGA

Keynote Speaker; TC Specialist; CCQI Assessor; Lived Experience Practitioner; Group Supervisor and Facilitator; International Trainer, Growing Better Lives CIC; Mosaic TC; Royal College of Psychiatrists; The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities (TCTC); Polyfonia (formerly INDTC-RP)
Neels is a Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and Lived Experience Practitioner with specialist expertise in Therapeutic Communities (TCs), group therapy, and relational care. She works internationally delivering training, supervision, and consultancy across mental health, homelessness... Read More →
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Acquilin John, MSc

Founder, Counselling Psychologist; Consultant Psychologist & Psychotherapist; Member, As We Find It; The Alternative Story; Mosaic (Academic Therapeutic Community)
Acquilin (they/xe) is a queer, trans, neurodivergent, disabled advocate for non-carceral mental health care and an anti-capitalist, anti-caste, anti-colonial, anti-majoritarian, anti-sanist voice for systemic change. They are an early-career counseling psychologist, psychotherapist... Read More →
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Anuckriti Garg, BA, MSW

Founder, Therapist; Member; Consultant EAP Counselor; Associate Therapist; Consultant Counselor, Therapy with Anuckriti; Mosaic; 1to1help.net; The Weird Therapist; Evergro
Anuckriti (she/they) is a queer-identifying neurodivergent therapist with more than three years ofexperience. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Psychology and has a post graduate in Social Work specialising in Mental Health from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. In her work... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

2:30pm EST

Break & Poster Presentations
Saturday November 7, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST
We are excited to showcase a diverse array of research and innovative projects in our Poster Presentations, which will be displayed throughout Fridya, Saturday and Sunday's conference event. Attendees are encouraged to explore these presentations at their leisure.To facilitate meaningful discussions and networking opportunities, dedicated poster viewing times will be held during the afternoon...
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Saturday November 7, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST
  Posters

3:00pm EST

Beyond Pathology: Meaning, Spirituality, Culture, and Connection (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
Beyond Pathology: Meaning, Spirituality, Culture, and Connection (In-Person Only)3-3:30pm God, Psychosis, and Blackness: Methodological Reflections from a Grounded Theory Study - Candice NunnTelfort, PhD   3:30-4pm Becoming Creative Architects of the Stories of Our Lives: Making Meaning Through the Symbols in Psychosis Through Honoring the Content of Our Madness - Jennifer Gaita...
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Candice NunnTelfort, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Culture, and Spiritual Care, Iliff School of Theology
Candice M. NunnTelfort, Ph.D. (they/them), is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Culture, and Spiritual Care at Iliff School of Theology. Their academic formation spans Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt Divinity School, and Lincoln University, a Historically Black... Read More →
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Jennifer Gaita Siciliano, MST

Arts Educator, Podcaster, Writer, Artist, Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast
Jennifer Gaita Siciliano is the creator, host, and producer of Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast, fighting for the disenfranchised and often ignored voices of psychiatric survivors. An expert by lived experience offering an alternative view on mental illness, Jennifer challenges today’s... Read More →
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Katie Mottram, MSc

consultant, Imroc
Katie Mottram has spent over 25 years working in the mental health field. Over time, she became increasingly frustrated about the limits of conventional psychiatric approaches and began exploring the rich intersection of trauma, spirituality, and human transformation. As a founding... Read More →
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Michelle Boyle PhDc

Managing Editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and Assistant Editor of ReVision: Journal of Consciousness and, California Institute of Integral Studies
Michelle Boyle is a doctoral candidate in East–West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her dissertation explores ancestral healing and intergenerational trauma and draws on fieldwork conducted as a visiting researcher at the University of Torino, Italy... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:00pm EST

Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and the Meaning of Psychosis (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and the Meaning of Psychosis3-3:30pm Bearing the Collapse and Opening of Space in the Engagement with Psychotic States: Bion, Wittgenstein, and Davoine/Gaudillière as Navigators through Catastrophic Change - James Ogilvie, PhD3:30-4pm In Defense of Psychosis - Kendra Terry, PhD4-4:30pm The Subject Refused: Foreclosure, Trauma, and the Ethics of the Real - Christopher...
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James Ogilvie, PhD

James Ogilvie, PhD is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.  He has written and presented on a number of subjects, including: On inpatient spiritual issues groups; Bion’s mysticism as scientific method; Buddhist emptiness and its relation... Read More →
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Kendra Terry, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Greene Clinic
Kendra Terry currently works as a postdoctoral fellow and psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Greene Clinic. Their previous training has included a bachelor’s degree in film from Wellesley College, a master’s degree from Columbia University and doctorate from Adelphi University... Read More →
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Christopher William Wolter, Licensed Psychoanalyst, Doctoral Candidate

Psychoanalyst, European Graduate School / National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
Christopher Wolter is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, where he works primarily with psychotic patients. He is a doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School and attends the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, completing a dissertation... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:00pm EST

Structural Contexts of Psychosis: Migration, Stigma, and Recovery (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #1
Structural Contexts of Psychosis: Migration, Stigma, and Recovery3-4pm Interrogating and Addressing Stigma to Facilitate Recovery: An Overview of Research in the Mental Health Recovery Research Lab - Philip T. Yanos, PhD, Madi Barber BS, Victoria Shepard, BS, Amanda Siriram, MA3:30-4pm Psychosis Among Immigrants in the United States: Epidemiological, Conceptual, and Social Considerations - Supriya...
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Supriya Misra, ScD

Associate Professor of Public Health, San Francisco State University
Supriya Misra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health and Affiliate Faculty at the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on how structural and interpersonal experiences of racism, stigma, and trauma impact... Read More →
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Philip Yanos, PhD

Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Philip Yanos, PhD is a professor in the psychology department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  He is the author of the books Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential (2018) and Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's ... Read More →
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Sheharyar Hussain

Sheharyar Hussain is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center. As a Pakistani American Muslim who has little representation in the field of clinical psychology, Sheharyar is passionate about highlighting the narratives of people who are often... Read More →
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Victoria Shepard, BS

PhD Student, John Jay College
Victoria is a doctoral student in the Clinical-Psychology PHD Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Victoria earned her BS in Psychology with a minor in Spanish from the University of Washington in 2022. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Victoria worked as a clinical... Read More →
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Madi Barber, BS

Doctoral Student, John Jay College/CUNY Graduate Center
Madi Barber is a second year PhD student in Clinical Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver where she earned a BS in psychology. In her undergraduate work, Madi engaged in a variety of research projects including... Read More →
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Amanda Siriram, MA

Doctoral Student, John Jay College
Amanda Siriram is a rising fourth-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Amanda earned both her BA in Psychology in 2020 and M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling, with a concentration... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #1
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:00pm EST

The Right to Make Meaning: Mysticism, Art, Culture, and Agency (Virtual Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Virtual Room
The Right to Make Meaning: Mysticism, Art, Culture, and Agency3-4pm The Shape of Air: Colonial Psychiatry, Medication Violence, and Film as Witness - Jennifer Abbott4-4:30pm Reframing Mysticism: An Ethic of Agency and the Other in Psychosis - Jacob Sirkisoon Prescott, LMSWThe Shape of Air: Colonial Psychiatry, Medication Violence, and Film as Witness - Jennifer AbbottThe Shape of Air is a feature...
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Jennifer Abbott

Writer/Director (film), Flying Eye Productions
Sundance award-winning filmmaker and media artist Jennifer Abbott creates rigorously crafted, politically engaged works—spanning documentary cinema, virtual reality, and installation—that disrupt dominant narratives, upend the status quo, and invite new ways of seeing. Best known... Read More →
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Jacob Sirkisoon Prescott, LMSW

Postgraduate Psychotherapist and Constellations Operations Manager, Greene Clinic
Jacob is a social worker and psychotherapist who uses a psychodynamic framework to work with addiction, psychosis, and extreme states. They have a wide range of experience in hospital, non-profit and peer centered settings. Jacob graduated from Smith College’s School of Social Work... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

3:00pm EST

Transforming Mental Health Systems Through Lived Experience Knowledge (Hybrid)
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Transforming Mental Health Systems Through Lived Experience Knowledge3-4pm Can an Alternative Become an Addition? Implementing Hearing Voices in Health Systems - Alison Branitzky PhD, Cindy Marty Hadge, BS, IPS, Sahastri Hercules BS, Erica Hua Fletcher PhD, Ippolytos Kalofonos MD PhD MPH4-4:30pm What We Bring to the Table: Lived Experience, Co-Creation, and Resisting Stigma in Research - Rosalba...
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Ippolytos Kalofonos MD, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor and Staff Psychiatrist, UCLA Center for Social Medicine & Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy & Desert Pacific 22 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center
Ippolytos Kalofonos MD, PhD, MPH, is a medical anthropologist, practicing psychiatrist, and health services researcher in the Greater Los Angeles Veteran Affairs Health System, where he works in the Thoughts and Perceptions clinic and in the Psychiatric Emergency Service. He is Associate... Read More →
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Sahastri Hercules, BS

Peer Specialist, Veteran Voices & Visions Facilitator, VA Greater Los Angeles
Sahastri Hercules, born in Brooklyn, NY, is a 38-year-old veteran with a diverse and impactful background. He served in the US Army for eight years, from 2004 to 2012, where he held various clinical laboratory positions. His military career included critical roles in criminal investigation... Read More →
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Alison Branitzky PhD

Researcher, University of Manchester; Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Alison Branitsky is a lived experience researcher at the University of Manchester/Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, UK. Her work spans several areas, including (1) deconstructing traditional understandings of mental health and distress; (2) researching... Read More →
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Cindy Marty Hadge, BS, IPS

HVN USA National Hearing Voices Trainer, Intentional Peer Support Trainer, Hearing Voices Network USA Board Member, Co-Founder, Roots-Up
Cindy Hadge is a person who experienced physical, emotional, sexual trauma as a child. She experienced voices and visions (some comforting and some distressing). As a young adult she turned to alcohol and street drugs in an effort to make life livable. Eventually she ended up in mental... Read More →
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Rosalba Perez

Co-Creation Specialist, OnTrackNY
Rosalba S. Perez is a Co-Creation Specialist and a graduate of Howie the Harp, holding a New York State Provisional Peer Specialist certificate. She has previously served as a Lived Experience Consultant at OnTrackNY Amplify, where she leveraged her lived expertise to act as an active... Read More →
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Laura López-Aybar, PhD

Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Laura López-Aybar is a critical psychology psychiatric survivor, lived experience researcher, and professor with a PhD from Adelphi University. Her work is propelled by a critical, decolonial, and feminist perspective on psychology. She is a survivor of childhood abuse and trauma and... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid

4:30pm EST

Break & Poster Presentations
Saturday November 7, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EST
We are excited to showcase a diverse array of research and innovative projects in our Poster Presentations, which will be displayed throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday's conference event. Attendees are encouraged to explore these presentations at their leisure.To facilitate meaningful discussions and networking opportunities, dedicated poster viewing times will be held during the afternoon...
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Saturday November 7, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EST
  Posters

5:00pm EST

Beyond the Individual: Systems, Crisis, and the Social Conditions of Distress (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
Beyond the Individual: Systems, Crisis, and the Social Conditions of Distress5-5:30pm Mental Health Crisis: Whose Crisis Is it, Really? - Zephyr Doles, MA, LMSW5:30-6pm Disordered Systems, Not Disordered Selves: Isolation and Institutional Power in First-Person Accounts of Psychosis - Ashley Phillips, MA, MT-BCMental Health Crisis: Whose Crisis Is it, Really? - Zephyr Doles, MA, LMSWWhat is a...
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Zephyr Doles, MA, LMSW

Social Worker, B-HEARD, NYC Health + Hospitals
Zephyr Ann Doles, MA, LMSW is a clinical social worker, community mental health worker, writer, independent scholar, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work critically examines the intersections of culture, identity, mental health, and social justice, particularly concerning systems... Read More →
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Ashley Phillips, MA, MT-BC

Clinical Psychology Student, William James College
Ashley Phillips, MA, MT-BC is a doctoral student at William James College, currently completing a PsyD in clinical psychology. Her clinical and scholarly work focuses on de-pathologizing psychotic experiences using existential, phenomenological, and liberation perspectives. Ashley... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

5:00pm EST

From Homelessness to Home: Housing, Relationships, and Recovery (Hybrid)
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
From Homelessness to Home: Housing, Relationships, and Recovery 5-5:30pm Twenty Years of INSIGHT FOR ALL: Long Term Psychotherapy with Homeless Adults - Deborah Luepnitz, PhD5:30-6pm Housing as an Anchor in Psychosis: From Intensive Mobile Treatment to Supportive Housing, Providing Treatment Across the Housing Spectrum - Judith Katz, MD, Sadie Heald, LMSW          ...
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Deborah Luepnitz, PhD

Core Faculty, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia
Deborah Anna Luepnitz, PhD is on the core faculty of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. She is the author of The Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Family Therapy (Basic Books, 1992) and Schopenhauer's Porcupines: 5 Stories of Psychotherapy... Read More →
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Judith Katz, MD

Psychiatrist, Janian Medical Care
Judith Katz, MD completed psychiatry residency and a fellowship in community psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Jusith has worked as a psychiatrist on an Assertive Community Treatment team in Westchester County, NY. Over the last 4 years, Judith has been a psychiatrist... Read More →
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Sadie Heald, LMSW

Peer Specialist Supervisor, Center for Urban Community Services
Sadie Heald, LMSW has been a Peer Specialist Supervisor on an Intensive Mobile Treatment team at the Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS) for over 4 years and just recently accepted a position as a Clinical Supervisor at a Supportive Housing site. Sadie is thankful to have also... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid

5:00pm EST

Psychoanalysis: Cultural and Social Dimensions (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Psychoanalysis: Cultural and Social Dimensions5-5:30pm PA Social Psychodynamic Approach to Psychosis: A Case Presentation - Abdel Aziz Al Bawab, MD5:30-6pm Sawubona--I See You: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method as a Framework for Culturally Responsive Case Formulation and Treatment of Persons Experiencing Psychosis - Shanique Meyler, MA, MPhilA Social Psychodynamic Approach to...
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Abdel Aziz Al Bawab, MD

Psychiatrist, Weill Cornell
Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Bawab is an attending psychiatrist in New York City. He practices outpatient and street-based psychiatry at Lincoln Hospital, where he teaches psychodynamic theory and supervises residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry... Read More →
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Shanique Meyler, MA, MPhil

Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Student, The Graduate Center & John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
With over 10 years of experience in psychology, education and clinical practice, Shanique Meyler contributes to advancing culturally responsive mental health care. She honors the lived experiences of those with serious mental illness, as she makes space to listen to their needs and... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

5:00pm EST

The Clinician in the Room: Projection, Power, and Moral Injury in Psychosis Care (Virtual Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Virtual Room
The Clinician in the Room: Projection, Power, and Moral Injury in Psychosis Care5-5:30pm Unrecognized and Untreated: Moral Injury Associated With Psychiatric Hospitalization - James Black, MD PhD, Wendy Haight, PhD5:30-6pm Whose Insight Is it Anyway? Therapist Projection and the Folly of Targeting Anosognosia - Lionel Wininger, PhDUnrecognized and Untreated: Moral Injury Associated With...
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Lionel Wininger, PhD

Chief Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Lionel Wininger is the Chief Clinical Psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He earned his PhD in clinical psychology at Long Island University in Brooklyn, and his BA at Brandeis... Read More →
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James Black, MD, PhD

Hospital Psychiatry, University of Minnesota
James Black, MD, PhD has been a hospital psychiatrist for about 30 years. He previously conducted neuroscience research, but he has recently focused on climate change and ethics.
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Wendy Haight, PhD

Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
Wendy Haight, PhD is an emeritus professor of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, with a career focused on child welfare, including moral injury and child welfare systems in Asia, Africa, and the US. She is the author of 13 academic books and numerous journal articles.
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

5:00pm EST

Towards a Wider Embrace: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Psychosis (In-Person Only)
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
The enthusiasm, innovation and sense of discovery that characterized psychoanalytic practice in its early days is experiencing a resurgence, and the energy behind this resurgence has broadened its reach towards greater inclusiveness and wider application.  This panel firmly straddles the paradox of psychoanalytic theory as theory-not, as an emergence of new receptivities to what is most human...
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Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP

ISPS-US Secretary, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/ISPS-US
Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP is a psychoanalyst, writer and psychotherapy activist in Evanston IL.  She is currently vice-president of ISPS-US, co-chair of Expanded Mental Health Services of Chicago, NFP, and a board member, past-president and core faculty member of the Chicago Center... Read More →
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Zak Mucha, LCSW

President, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Zak Mucha, LCSW is a psychoanalyst in Chicago and the author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis and Street-Corner Social Work, Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self Defense, and two collections of poetry.
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Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz

PhD Candidate, Duquesne University
Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Duquesne University. He is a member of ISPS-US and associate clinical faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Michael works psychoanalytically with small children, adolescents, and adults.
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Adam Weg, LCSW

Primary Clinician, Lenox Hill Hospital
Adam Weg, LCSW practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York City, with a special interest in the psychoanalysis of “serious mental illness.” He also works in the Early Treatment Program at Lenox Hill Hospital, and is an Associate Faculty Member at the Chicago Center for... Read More →
Saturday November 7, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

6:30pm EST

Conference Dinner (Ticketed Event)
Saturday November 7, 2026 6:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Bocca di Bacco - Hell's Kitchen
Join us for a three-course dinner at Bocca Di Bacco - Hell's Kitchen on Saturday night of the conference. If you have any dietary restrictions, please email [email protected] by October 31. Restaurant Address:  836 9th Ave., New York, NY 10019 Price: $85Menu:Please note that this is a ticketed event that is not included in conference registration. Visit our registration page...
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Saturday November 7, 2026 6:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Bocca di Bacco - Hell's Kitchen 836 9th Ave., New York, NY 10019
  Social Event, Ticketed
 
Sunday, November 8
 

8:00am EST

Coffee & Registration
Sunday November 8, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EST

Sunday November 8, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EST
  Coffee & Registration

9:15am EST

Plenary Panel: Beyond the Individual: The Past, Present, and Future of Family-Inclusive Psychosis Care (Hybrid)
Sunday November 8, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Family involvement in the treatment of persons experiencing psychosis has been fraught with challenges. From theories of the ‘schizophrenogenic mother’ to the reductionism of the biomedical model, families have been blamed, neglected, and/or excluded from the treatment process. Despite major treatment guidelines recommending family-based interventions, these services are rarely offered due to...
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Justin Palanci, MD

Assistant Professor, Emory University
Justin Palanci, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. He serves as Director of Family and Network Engagement in the Clinical and Research Program for Psychosis and staff psychiatrist in the Psychiatric... Read More →
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Justin Garson, PhD

Professor, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Justin Garson is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022) and The Madness Pill: The Quest to Create Insanity and One Doctor’s Discovery that Transformed Psychiatry... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 9:15am - 10:30am EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Plenary Panel, Hybrid

11:00am EST

Historical Trauma, Colonialism, and Eugenic Legacies in Psychiatry (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
Historical Trauma, Colonialism, and Eugenic Legacies in Psychiatry11-11:30am Madness and the Repetition of Colonial Trauma in Psychiatric Services - Elan Cohen, PhD11:30-12pm Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, and Our Eugenic History: A Reading and Discussion of The Devil's Castle - Susanne Antonetta, MFAMadness and the Repetition of Colonial Trauma in Psychiatric Services - Elan Cohen, PhDContact with...
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Elan Cohen, PhD

Psychologist
Dr. Elan Cohen is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in New York City. His work focuses on social and psychoanalytic approaches to psychosis and trauma. Before becoming a psychologist, Elan was a respite worker in the city's first Crisis Respite Center, and... Read More →
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Susanne Antonetta

Author & Speaker
Susanne Paola Antonetta's latest book is The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today. She is also the author of The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here, Make Me a Mother, Entangled Objects, Body Toxic, A Mind Apart, and... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

11:00am EST

Invisible Partners in Recovery: Social Isolation, Discrimination, and Support Among Mental Health Caregivers (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
Family involvement in treatment is one of the strongest prognostic factors for recovery from schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD). Yet, while psychotherapeutic treatment for SSD has increasingly emphasized connection, belonging, and recovery through social engagement, less attention has been paid to the social experiences of the family caregivers who actually make that recovery possible. In...
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Rachel Waford, PhD, ABPP

Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor, Consulting Psychologist, Early Psychosis Clinic Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Grady Health System Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Rachel Waford, PhD, ABPP is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist in Atlanta, GA. She is an Assistant Professor at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Hubert Department of Global Health and Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry... Read More →
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Mitul Desai

CEO, Co-Founder, The Care Hack
Mitul Desai has spent the past two decades helping care for his brother, who lives with schizophrenia. Driven by a mission to ensure no other family suffers in isolation as his did, Mitul co-founded The Care Hack to provide evidence-based, practical support for families navigating... Read More →
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Ke Wang, PhD

Data Analyst, Rosalynn Carter Mental Health and Caregiver Program at The Carter Center
Dr. Ke Wang is a research, evaluation, and data strategy leader with expertise in caregiving, mental health, health systems, and evidence-informed policy. She serves with the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health and Caregiver Program at The Carter Center, where she leads caregiver-focused... Read More →
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Neetu Abad, PhD

Director, Rosalynn Carter Mental Health and Caregiver Program at The Carter Center
Dr. Neetu Abad is a seasoned leader who has implemented high-impact public health strategies in mental and behavioral health, vaccine-preventable diseases, and emergency response domestically and globally. In July 2025, she was named the first director of the Rosalynn Carter Mental... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Breakout Room #1
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

11:00am EST

Making Meaning of Psychosis: Phenomenology and Lived Experience (Virtual Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Virtual Room
Making Meaning of Psychosis: Phenomenology and Lived Experience11-11:30pm The Psychological Greenhouse: A Phenomenological Framework for Understanding Psychosis-like Experience and Recovery - Wenmao Ma, Xinru Yi11:30-12pm The Importance of Diversifying Causation Beliefs in Support Groups for Psychosis - Timothy C Dreby, MEd, LMFTThe Psychological Greenhouse: A Phenomenological Framework for...
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Wenmao Ma

Product Manager, Changsha Sirui Kangning Technology Co., Ltd.
Wenmao Ma is a mental health advocate, lived experience researcher, and peer support practitioner from China. Over the past decade, he has been actively involved in promoting recovery-oriented mental health services, self-advocacy, and social inclusion for people with lived experience... Read More →
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Xinru Yi

Product Manager, Changsha Sirui Kangning Technology Co., Ltd.
Xinru Yi is a lived experience mental health advocate, researcher, and digital mental health practitioner. He has long been engaged in mental health recovery, lived experience research, and theoretical development. He developed the “Psychological Greenhouse” conceptual framework... Read More →
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TImothy C Dreby, MEd, LMFT

Lead Rehabilitation Counselor, Alameda Health System
Tim Dreby is a psychotherapist in private practice and the award-winning author of a memoir about surviving a schizophrenia diagnosis. He has been employed in Oakland, CA over the last twenty-four years at Alameda Health System in the Department of Outpatient Psychiatry at Highland... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

11:00am EST

Psychosis as a Social Relation: Phenomenology, Ecology, and the World We Create (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Psychosis as a Social Relation: Phenomenology, Ecology, and the World We Create11-11:30pm Can We Live Together?: A Phenomenological Perspective on the Sociogenic Roots of Psychosis and the Soteria Model for Community Liberation - Drew Madore, Sebastián Hernández-Del Valle, Yveton Isnor11:30-12pm An Ecological Approach to Generalized Psychosis: Emancipatory and Reactionary Potentials - Caleb...
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Drew Madore, PsyD

Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Drew Madore is a queer ex-vangelical who believes the work of therapy is to develop greater degrees of freedom in self- and other-relatedness, and who draws upon psychoanalysis as a theory and praxis with liberatory potential at the individual, group, and social levels. Drew is a... Read More →
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Caleb Scott, PsyD

Psychologist on Mobile Crisis Team and Adult Outpatient, Woodhull Medical Center
Caleb Scott is a New York City based psychologist with extensive clinical experience working with individuals experiencing psychotic disorders and other severe psychiatric presentations. He works part time on a mobile crisis team responding to psychiatric emergencies across Brooklyn... Read More →
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Sebastián Marcos Hernández-Del Valle, MS

Clinical Fellow in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Sebastián Marcos Hernández Del Valle, MS is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Carlos Albizu University in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is currently completing his internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, in addition to serving... Read More →
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Yveton Isnor, PsyD, LMHC

Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Yveton Isnor, PsyD, LMHC, attended Nova Southeastern University (NSU), where he earned a master’s degree in mental health counseling in 2015. He worked at the Boca Habilitation Center for the Handicapped (HabCenter) for seven years, where he helped develop the Program for Education... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

11:00am EST

Women and Psychosis: Trauma, Testimony, and Structural Violence (Hybrid)
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Women's experiences of altered states, crisis, and recovery are profoundly shaped by social, institutional, and gendered contexts. This interdisciplinary panel brings together professional and lived experience, clinical critique, feminist analysis, and trauma-informed perspectives to examine how systems of care can both respond to and reproduce psychological distress. The first panelist explores...
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Marie Brown, PhD, ABPP

Program Director, Northwell Health Lenox Hill Hospital
Marie Brown, PhD, ABPP is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Program Director & Team Leader at the Lenox Hill OnTrack and Early Treatment Program. She is President of the US Chapter of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US... Read More →
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Leah Giorgini, MS

Executive Director, ISPS-US
Leah is a British-Indonesian immigrant who moved from England to the United States in 2016. As a psychiatric survivor, childhood domestic violence survivor, former foster youth, and a person who has previously experienced homelessness, Leah is working towards a world free of oppression... Read More →
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Nadia Naomi Mbonde, PhD

Implemetation Specialist, Crisis Response Engagement and Skills Training New York (CRESTNY)
Dr. Nadia Naomi Mbonde is a sociocultural anthropologist, multimedia artist, and Mad Black mother based in Brooklyn, New York. Her research centers Black reproductive mental health, tracing how psychiatric governance, obstetric management, and family regulation accumulate harm across... Read More →
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Erika Carr, PhD

Associate Professor / Director of Inpatient Psychology Service / Director of Behavioral Intervention Service, Yale University School of Medicine
Erika R. Carr, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine and is also the Director of the Inpatient Psychology Service and Director of the Behavioral Intervention Service at Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Carr’s primary research and... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid

12:00pm EST

Lunch (On Own)
Sunday November 8, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Lunch on your own.

Please enjoy the many great eateries that New York City has to offer!
Sunday November 8, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
  Lunch

1:30pm EST

Creating Psychological Homes: Hospitality and Belonging (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Creating Psychological Homes: Hospitality and Belonging1:30pm- 2pm The Real City: Psychosis and the Ethics of Hospitality - Loren Dent, PhD, Matthew Oyer, PhD2-2:30pm A Co-Created Psychological Home as a Respite from Psychosis, Trauma and Social Alienation - Jessica (Yisca) Baris Ginat, MDThe Real City: Psychosis and the Ethics of Hospitality - Loren Dent, PhD, Matthew Oyer, PhDThe contemporary...
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Loren Dent, PhD

Co-director, Greene Clinic / Constellations
Dr. Dent is a psychologist who works with children, adolescents, and adults in private practice. He is on the volunteer faculty at Lenox Hill Hospital, where he provides trainees with psychotherapy and psychological evaluation supervision, as well as ongoing didactics pertaining to... Read More →
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Matthew Oyer, PhD

Co-director, Greene Clinic / Constellations
Dr. Oyer is co-director of the Greene Clinic and runs the student training program along with Dr. Loren Dent.Dr. Oyer is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and Adjunct Supervising Faculty in the clinical psychology... Read More →
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Jessica (Yisca) Baris Ginat, MD

Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, director of the Intansive Therapeutic Day Center in The Jerusalem mental Health Center., The Jerusalem Mental Health Center
Jessica (Yisca) Baris Ginat is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, director of the Intansive Therapeutic Day Center in The Jerusalem mental Health Center and in private practice in Jerusalem.
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Holding and Belonging: Relational Approaches to Recovery in Young People Experiencing Psychosis (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #1
Holding and Belonging: Relational Approaches to Recovery in Young People Experiencing Psychosis1:30-2pm The Holding Environment in Fragmented Systems: Reflections on Therapy in First-Episode Psychosis - Priyanka Padidam, LSW, Madeleine Andrews, LSW2-2:30pm Held Apart: Loneliness, Psychosis, and the Work of Recovery - Gil Grunfeld, MSc, MAThe Holding Environment in Fragmented Systems: Reflections...
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Priyanka Padidam, LSW

Resilience Counselor, Horizon House, Inc.
Priyanka Padidam, LSW received her Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. While completing social work training she worked with adults in an inpatient psychiatric hospital setting and provided individual outpatient therapy at a community mental health center... Read More →
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Madeleine Andrews, LSW

Resilience Counselor, Horizon House, Inc
Madeleine Andrews is a social worker who graduated from the GSSWSR in 2024. While in school, Maddie worked with young children and their families in community mental health spaces, using child centered play therapy modality. She has worked at a community mental health first episode... Read More →
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Gil Grunfeld, MSc, MA

PhD Student, Boston University
Gil Grunfeld, MSc, MA, is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Boston University. Previously, She received a MSc in Transcultural Psychiatry from McGill University. Gil's research on loneliness draws from phenomenology, psychoanalytic theory, and philosophy of psychiatry... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #1
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Listening for Meaning: Language, Dialogue, and Understanding (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
Listening for Meaning: Language, Dialogue, and Understanding1:30-2pm Get Me: Interpreting and Responding to Psychotic Speech Patterns - Erin Soros, PhD2-2:30pm Being Heard in Psychosis: Recognition and Dialogue in Open Dialogue - Ross Ellenhorn, MSW, PhDGet Me: Interpreting and Responding to Psychotic Speech Patterns - Erin Soros, PhDHave you heard the ricochet of psychotic speech—patterns that...
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Erin Soros, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Northern British Columbia
Erin Soros lives in Prince George, British Columbia where she is an assistant professor of contemporary critical theory and literary studies. She writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and critical essays. She researches psychosis and the psychiatric and police response to it. She has... Read More →
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Ross Ellenhorn, MSW, PhD

Founder & CEO at Ellenhorn, Ellenhorn
Trained as a sociologist, psychotherapist and social worker, Ross Ellenhorn, Ph.D., created the first fully operational intensive hospital-diversion and wraparound program in Massachusetts, and went on to establish and lead one of the first public Programs for Assertive Community... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

1:30pm EST

Student Experiences of Psychosis: Cultural Alienation, Meaning-Making, and Systems of Care (Virtual Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Virtual Room
Student Experiences of Psychosis: Cultural Alienation, Meaning-Making, and Systems of Care1:30-2pm The Storm That Helps You Notice How Far You Are From Land: International Students Whose Extreme Experiences Helped Us to Identify and Address Forms of Social and Cultural Alienation - Olivia Wills2-2:30pm Countertransference and Containment in Acute Response Strategies for Students Presenting...
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Olivia Wills, MSW, LCSW

Therapist, University of Southern California, Counseling Center
Olivia Wills, MSW, LCSW, (she/her) received her undergraduate degree from PrincetonUniversity and her Master of Social Work from the University of Chicago. She currentlyworks as clinical faculty at a university counseling center where she provides supervisionand consultation on working... Read More →
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Rachel Rahman, BA

Incident Response Team Administrator, New York University
Rachel Rahman is a first-year Master’s student in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience at New York University and an Incident Response Team Administrator at New York University, where she provides non-clinical, on-site psychosocial crisis response within university residence halls... Read More →
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Neil Haran, MS

Incident Response Team Administrator, New York University
Neil Haran is an Incident Response Team Administrator at New York University where he conducts rapid, on-site psychosocial crisis responses within university residence halls. His academic background is in clinical psychology and he has worked as a graduate student researcher on projects... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

1:30pm EST

The Uninvited Guest: Psychosis, Pedagogical Failure, and the Analyst who is Unprepared (Hybrid)
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
When a patient presents with psychotic symptoms, most clinically trained therapists are at a loss—they refer out, pursue hospitalization, refuse treatment, or misapply techniques meant for other patients—not because of individual failure but because doctoral programs and psychoanalytic institutes have progressively ceded psychosis to psychiatry, leaving a generation equipped with theoretical...
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Danielle Knafo, PhD

professor, psychologist/psychoanalyst, NYU Postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, private practice
Danielle Knafo, PhD is a professor, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author. She chaired a concentration on the treatment of serious mental illness at LIU-Post's doctoral program for 22 years. She has treated persons with SMI for 40 years. Her most recent book (with Michael... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid

2:30pm EST

Break
Sunday November 8, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Sunday November 8, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST
  Break

3:00pm EST

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives3-3:30pm Unsettling Self: Working with Divergent Self-Experiences in Psychosis - Chris Nadler, PhD, LP-D, Saskia Nislow, MAT3:30-4pm Synchronicity, Psychosis, and the Social Link - Robin S. Brown PhD4-4:30pm Psychosis in Totalitarian Regime and the Mind - Masha Yaglom LCSW, MSUnsettling Self: Working with Divergent Self-Experiences in Psychosis - Chris...
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Chris Nadler, PhD, LP-D

Psychoanalyst, Private Practice, NYC
Dr. Chris Nadler, PhD, LP-D, (they/them) is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. They are a training analyst, supervisor and faculty member at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, and lecture in the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program. Chris completed... Read More →
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Saskia Nislow, MAT

Psychoanalytic Training Candidate, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
Saskia Nislow, MAT, (they/she/he) is a fourth-year psychoanalytic training candidate in the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis’s Licensure Qualifying program. Saskia is a fiction writer whose debut novella, Root Rot, was published in March 2025 by Creature Publishing.
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Robin S. Brown PhD

Psychoanalyst, Private Practice
Robin S. Brown, PhD, LP, NCPsyA, is a New York State licensed psychoanalyst in private practice. Dr. Brown has served on the faculty at Columbia University, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. His work has been published widely and spans... Read More →
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Masha Yaglom PhD,LCSW, MS

Member of the Faculty,Teacher,Supervisor, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy
Masha Yaglom, LCSW, MS, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Masha is a supervisor and teacher of psychoanalysis, she is affiliated with the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis ,( which she is a graduate of),Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and William... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #2
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:00pm EST

Creative Practices, Performance, and Community (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
Creative Practices, Performance, and Community3-4pm Integrating Neuroscientific and Psychological Approaches to Explore Group Song-Making’s Efficacy for Fostering Identity and Community Amongst Voice-Hearers - Anthony Pavlo, PhD, Claire Bien, MEd, Deanna Greco, MPhil, Adam Christoferson, Julia Nachemson, MSW4-4:30pm A Kathak Autobiographical Performance Using Drama, Prose of a South-Asian...
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Claire Bien, MEd

Research Associate, Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health
Claire Bien, MEd, is a research associate at the Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health; mental health advocate and educator; and author of a memoir, Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head. She is treasurer of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) and a board member and immediate past president of ISPS-US. She served as a board member of the Hearing Voices Network (HVN)-USA from 2019. Claire speaks widely about her experience... Read More →
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Anthony Pavlo, PhD

Clinical psychologist and Associate Research Scientist, Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health
Anthony Pavlo, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Associate Research Scientist at the Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health where he focuses on recovery-oriented and person-centered practices in the care of persons diagnosed with serious mental illnesses. His research... Read More →
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Deanna Greco, MPhil

Neuroscience PhD Candidate, Yale University
Deanna Greco is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Yale University. Her research focuses on the various ways in which humanities-based interventions support health and well-being within the context of psychosis and beyond. She is also passionate about advancing accessible educational... Read More →
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Adam Christoferson

Founder and Executive Director, Musical Intervention
Adam Christoferson is a singer-songwriter and the founder and executive director of Musical Intervention, a Connecticut-based nonprofit and creative studio that uses music-making as a tool for mental health recovery, connection, and community transformation. His work sits at the intersection... Read More →
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Julia Nachemson, MSW

Julia Nachemson is a qualitative researcher and youth facilitator whose work centers holistic wellness, epistemic justice, and systemic equity. She is interested in participatory approaches that challenge pathologizing frameworks of mental difference and elevate lived experience as... Read More →
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Ishaa Vinod Chopra, RECE, MSc Candidate

Founder- Finding Order in Disorder Foundation, Finding Order in Disorder Foundation / ISPS- Canada / Guelph University
Ishaa is an Award Winning Author, RECE and Guelph University MSc. Thesis Candidate in Critical Family and Kinship Studies with a Collaborative Specialization in Gender, Sexualities and Bodies at the University of Guelph, Canada. She founded Finding Order in Disorder Foundation - a... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #3
  Breakout Session, In-Person Only

3:00pm EST

Decarcerating Crisis Responses (Hybrid)
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Decarcerating Crisis Responses3:30-4:15pm Decarcerating Care: Building Community Responses Beyond Police and Psychiatry - Kimberlee Kristel Lalane, MA, Evan Auguste, PhD, Jessie Roth, Coreena Forstner, MSW4:15-5pm Crisis Alternatives in a Carceral World - Alexander Campanario Araica, Keith Scott, Sera DavidowDecarcerating Care: Building Community Responses Beyond Police and Psychiatry - Kimberlee...
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Jessie Roth

Former Executive Director, IDHA
Jessie Roth (she/her) is a writer, activist, and strategist with more than a decade of experience at the intersections of transformative mental health and human rights. She is the former Executive Director and a longtime member of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA... Read More →
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Evan Auguste, PhD

Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Evan Auguste, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology with a major area of focus in forensic psychology at Fordham University in 2022. Auguste is a 2014 graduate of Middlebury College. He identities... Read More →
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Kimberlee Kristel Lalane, MA

Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Holding a dual bachelor's and master’s (BA/MA) degree in Forensic Psychology and a second master’s in Clinical Psychology, Kimberlee Lalane is a rising 5th year Doctorate Candidate in Clinical Psychology. They serve as a graduate research assistant for the A.S.I.LI. Collective... Read More →
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Coreena Forstner, MSW

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Coreena Forstner, MSW (she/they) is a social worker and PhD student in Social Work and Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan, working under the mentorship of Dr. Shanna Kattari in the [Sexuality | Relationships | Gender] Research Collective. Her research examines psychosis... Read More →
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Keith Scott

Vice President of Peer Support & Self-Advocacy, Advocates
Keith Scott is currently the Vice President of Peer Support and Self-Advocacy at Advocates, a private, non-profit human services agency in eastern Massachusetts. Keith has worked at Advocates since 1989 in a variety of positions including:  direct care counselor, group home manager... Read More →
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Alexander Campanario Araica

Peer Respite Outcomes Specialist, Roots Up
Alexander Campanario Araica has worked in multiple peer and related roles including group facilitator (online and in-person), offering housing supports with our local Housing Consumer Education Center (HCEC), and Community Bridging. Today he serves as a trainer, Co-Coorindator of... Read More →
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Roots Up

Roots Up
Roots Up operates within an explicitly anti-force, anti-oppressive framework to raise up voice, choice, harm reduction and the wisdom we've gained through surviving and thriving as we strive to dismantle systems and build the knowledge sharing opportunities and supports we wish were... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
  Breakout Session, Hybrid

3:00pm EST

Expanding Psychosis Care: Integrating Creativity and Community (Virtual Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Virtual Room
Expanding Psychosis Care: Integrating Creativity and Community3-3:45pm Integrating Evidence and Meaning: Rethinking Psychosis Care through Clinical, Creative and Lived Experience Perspectives - Lorna Collins, PhD, FHEA, FRSPH, FRSA, Anthony David, PhD, Roxana Baiasu, PhD, SFHEA3:45-4:15pm: Whatever Happened to Disalienation? From Theatre to Shared Stories: Collective Cultural Practices as a...
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Boglarka Hardy

Private practice as a psychologist., Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary
Boglarka Hardy graduated from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, in 2011. She earned a Master’s degree in Hungarian Language and Literature, as well as a Master’s degree in Comparative Literary History and Cultural Studies (English and American Literature... Read More →
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Dr Lorna Collins, PhD, FHEA, FRSPH, FRSA

Director and Founder, A Creative Transformation, U.K.
Dr Lorna Collins, FHEA, FRSPH, FRSA is a writer, artist, award winning creative consultant and educator. She has published articles and books on mad philosophy, hallucinations, phenomenology, aesthetics, French philosophy and children’s fiction. Lorna lives with organic psychosis... Read More →
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Dr Roxana Baiasu, PhD

Assistant Professor, Programme Lead of the Online MSc Mental Health, Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, Affiliate of the Institute for Data and Artificial Intelligence (IDAI), University of Birmingham
Dr. Roxana Baiasu is Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham, Institute for Mental Health and School of Psychology, and the Programme Director of the Online MSc Mental Health at the University of Birmingham, UK. Roxana’s academic interests include the philosophy of mental... Read More →
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Anthony David, PhD

Professor of Mental Health at University College London, Division of Psychiatry, Director of UCL Institute of Mental Health, Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the National Hospital for Neurology, UCLH Foundation NHS Trust., Division of Psychiatry, University College London, U.K.
Tony David has been Professor of Mental Health at University College London, Division of Psychiatry since 2018, as well as Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the National Hospital for Neurology, UCLH Foundation NHS Trust. He led UCL’s successful application for a Mental Health... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Virtual Room
  Breakout Session, Virtual Only

3:00pm EST

The Therapeutic Power of Community: The Fountain House Clubhouse Model and Beyond (In-Person Only)
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
Breakout Room #1
The Therapeutic Power of Community: The Fountain House Clubhouse Model and Beyond3:30-4:15pm Therapeutic Community: The Clubhouse Model - Kevin Rice, MA, Nicole Patton, Jamarne McGill, Brandon Daniels4:15-5pm A Schizophrenic Walks into a Bar: Interpreting the Institutional Unconscious through In Vivo Social Interventions - Jesse Newberg, LMSW, Chloe Murtagh, LMSWTherapeutic Community: The...
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Kevin Rice, MA

Senior Director of Research and Knowledge, Fountain House Inc.
Kevin Rice is the Senior Director of Research and Knowledge at Fountain House. He has worked at Fountain House since 2017 where he started as a social practitioner for two years in Fountain House’s Research Unit. Upon completing his graduate degree in psychology, Kevin transitioned... Read More →
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Jamarne (Jay) McGill

Mental Health and Clubhouse Advocate, Fountain House
Jamarne "Jay" McGill is a mental health and clubhouse advocate at Fountain House, where he advances recovery-oriented practices through training, outreach, policy advocacy, and public education. A native New Yorker, Jay draws on his lived experience with mental health challenges and... Read More →
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Nicole Patton

Manager, Policy & Advocacy, Fountain House Inc.
Nicole Patton is a policy and advocacy professional with extensive experience advancing disability rights, legislative strategy, and government relations at the state and federal levels. She serves as Manager of Policy & Advocacy at Fountain House, where she oversees the organization’s... Read More →
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Brandon Daniels

Fountain House
Brandon Daniels is a Caribbean American who holds the position of a psychiatric survivor, justice impacted individual, peer support specialist, organizer, and educator. He is a graduate of Howie the Harp Advocacy Center, a NYS peer specialist, and a harm reduction specialist. Brandon... Read More →
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Chloe Murtagh, LMSW

Social Worker, ACT Team, NYC H+H / Woodhull
Chloe Murtagh, LMSW, is a social worker and union organizer based in New York City. She currently works on the ACT Team at NYC H+H/Woodhull, a large public hospital in Brooklyn, and previously spent eight years at Fountain House, a psychosocial clubhouse for people with serious mental... Read More →
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Jesse Newberg, LMSW

Mental Health Social Practitioner, Fountain House
Jesse Newberg, LMSW, is a Mental Health Social Practitioner at Fountain House in New York City, where he helps facilitate a therapeutic community for people living with serious mental illness. He helped lead the unionization campaign at Fountain House, secured its first collective... Read More →
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