ISPS-US Annual Conference 2026

1:30pm EST

Beyond Coercion: Reimagining Legal Responses to Psychosis (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeNev Jones PhD • Allie Dougharty, LCSW • Lauren Fowler • Todd Wittenberg • Melissa Uehling MD, PhD • Shannon Pagdon MSW Metacognitive Frameworks for Social Connection and Creative Engagement (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Danielle Frank, LCSW • Marilyn Charles, PhD, APP • Courtney Wiesepape, PsyD, HSPP • Jessica Garrelts, MS • Marlee Gieselman, BS • Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD Navigating Voice Hearing - Experiential Workshops (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3Yulia Landa, PsyD, MS • Jessica Levitt, CDA • Michael Jacobs, PhD • Christina Asig, MD • Cindy Marty Hadge • Sasha Dunbar Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Track (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP • Zak Mucha, LCSW • Adam Weg, LCSW • Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz The Transformative Power of Peers (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomMichal Ditkoff • Abaigeal (Abbe) Duke • Elise Diamond • Claudia Wilson, MSW, MFA • Patrick Kaufmann, CPSS, CPRC, BS • Shannon Kaufmann, CPSS, ITE

3:30pm EST

Disalienation as System Change: Relational and Community Approaches to Recovery (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomRuben Valle, PhD • Carina A. Iati, PsyD • Jeannie Bass, CPS • Joël Doty, MA, MBA Creative Expression in Recovery - Arts Workshops (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3Eliot Duncan • D. Mortimer • Toshiko Kobayashi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT From Control to Connection: Human Rights Aligned Approaches (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Claire Bien, MEd • Jana Koosah, PhD Student • Ruben Valle, PhD Transforming Clinical Education: Lived Experience and Meaning-Centered Care (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Camila Camacho • Philip Yanos, PhD • Rachel Waford, PhD, ABPP • Punita Peketi, MD • Saritha Venkataram • Ethel Kirabo Nalule, MSc • Madi Barber, BS • Evan Auguste, PhD • Emese Ilyés, PhD Young People, Families, and Recovery in Early Psychosis (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeBeth Broussard, MPH, CHES • Emily Griner, MPH • Sophie Pollack-Milgate, BA • Angie S. Williams • Michaela I. Fissel, MA,

1:30pm EST

Contextualizing Psychosis: Society, Culture, and Lived Experience (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Skye Wood, MA • Kristen Koniuch, BS, MA Student Madness and the Social Link: Forty Years of Our Paris Seminar (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeFrancoise Davoine, PhD Psychiatric Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Difference (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Brett Thatcher, LICSW • Michelle Goodwin, PhD, LMHC Shaped by Systems: How Institutions and Intolerable Environments Shape 'Psychosis' (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3Jack McEnroe, BA • Adan Charles Richards Three People, One Lineage: Psychosis, Social Fracture, and What Healing Actually Requires - A Collaborative Lived Experience Panel in Three Voices (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomNeelam Khawani-Connett, BA (Hons), IGA • Acquilin John, MSc • Anuckriti Garg, BA, MSW

3:00pm EST

Beyond Pathology: Meaning, Spirituality, Culture, and Connection (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Candice NunnTelfort, PhD • Jennifer Gaita Siciliano, MST • Katie Mottram, MSc • Michelle Boyle PhDc Psychoanalysis, Ethics, and the Meaning of Psychosis (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3James Ogilvie, PhD • Kendra Terry, PhD • Christopher William Wolter, Licensed Psychoanalyst, Doctoral Candidate Structural Contexts of Psychosis: Migration, Stigma, and Recovery (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Supriya Misra, ScD • Philip Yanos, PhD • Sheharyar Hussain • Victoria Shepard, BS • Madi Barber, BS • Amanda Siriram, MA The Right to Make Meaning: Mysticism, Art, Culture, and Agency (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomJennifer Abbott • Jacob Sirkisoon Prescott, LMSW Transforming Mental Health Systems Through Lived Experience Knowledge (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeIppolytos Kalofonos MD, PhD, MPH • Sahastri Hercules, BS • Alison Branitzky PhD • Cindy Marty Hadge, BS, IPS • Rosalba Perez • Laura López-Aybar, PhD

5:00pm EST

Beyond the Individual: Systems, Crisis, and the Social Conditions of Distress (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Zephyr Doles, MA, LMSW • Ashley Phillips, MA, MT-BC From Homelessness to Home: Housing, Relationships, and Recovery (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeDeborah Luepnitz, PhD • Judith Katz, MD • Sadie Heald, LMSW Psychoanalysis: Cultural and Social Dimensions (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3Abdel Aziz Al Bawab, MD • Shanique Meyler, MA, MPhil The Clinician in the Room: Projection, Power, and Moral Injury in Psychosis Care (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomLionel Wininger, PhD • James Black, MD, PhD • Wendy Haight, PhD Towards a Wider Embrace: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Psychosis (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP • Zak Mucha, LCSW • Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz • Adam Weg, LCSW

11:00am EST

Historical Trauma, Colonialism, and Eugenic Legacies in Psychiatry (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Elan Cohen, PhD • Susanne Antonetta Invisible Partners in Recovery: Social Isolation, Discrimination, and Support Among Mental Health Caregivers (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Rachel Waford, PhD, ABPP • Mitul Desai • Ke Wang, PhD • Neetu Abad, PhD Making Meaning of Psychosis: Phenomenology and Lived Experience (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomWenmao Ma • Xinru Yi • TImothy C Dreby, MEd, LMFT Psychosis as a Social Relation: Phenomenology, Ecology, and the World We Create (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3Drew Madore, PsyD • Caleb Scott, PsyD • Sebastián Marcos Hernández-Del Valle, MS • Yveton Isnor, PsyD, LMHC Women and Psychosis: Trauma, Testimony, and Structural Violence (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeMarie Brown, PhD, ABPP • Leah Giorgini, MS • Nadia Naomi Mbonde, PhD • Erika Carr, PhD

1:30pm EST

Creating Psychological Homes: Hospitality and Belonging (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3Loren Dent, PhD • Matthew Oyer, PhD • Jessica (Yisca) Baris Ginat, MD Holding and Belonging: Relational Approaches to Recovery in Young People Experiencing Psychosis (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Priyanka Padidam, LSW • Madeleine Andrews, LSW • Gil Grunfeld, MSc, MA Listening for Meaning: Language, Dialogue, and Understanding (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Erin Soros, PhD • Ross Ellenhorn, MSW, PhD Student Experiences of Psychosis: Cultural Alienation, Meaning-Making, and Systems of Care (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomOlivia Wills, MSW, LCSW • Rachel Rahman, BA • Neil Haran, MS The Uninvited Guest: Psychosis, Pedagogical Failure, and the Analyst who is Unprepared (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeDanielle Knafo, PhD

3:00pm EST

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #2Chris Nadler, PhD, LP-D • Saskia Nislow, MAT • Robin S. Brown PhD • Masha Yaglom PhD,LCSW, MS Creative Practices, Performance, and Community (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #3Claire Bien, MEd • Anthony Pavlo, PhD • Deanna Greco, MPhil • Adam Christoferson • Julia Nachemson, MSW • Ishaa Vinod Chopra, RECE, MSc Candidate Decarcerating Crisis Responses (Hybrid) Student Dining Hall, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeJessie Roth • Evan Auguste, PhD • Kimberlee Kristel Lalane, MA • Coreena Forstner, MSW • Keith Scott • Alexander Campanario Araica • Roots Up Expanding Psychosis Care: Integrating Creativity and Community (Virtual Only) Virtual RoomBoglarka Hardy • Dr Lorna Collins, PhD, FHEA, FRSPH, FRSA • Dr Roxana Baiasu, PhD • Anthony David, PhD The Therapeutic Power of Community: The Fountain House Clubhouse Model and Beyond (In-Person Only) Breakout Room #1Kevin Rice, MA • Jamarne (Jay) McGill • Nicole Patton • Brandon Daniels • Chloe Murtagh, LMSW • Jesse Newberg, LMSW

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