Recap of the APA ' s Annual Meeting in New York City

Heidi Bunes, ClinkShrink, Dr. Joanna Brandt, DinahThis year ' s annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association was held from May 5th-9th at the Javits Center in New York City.  Let me tell you about it!First of all, we were so excited that our book,Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care was awarded this year ' s Carol Davis Ethics Award for outstanding contribution to the literature in the ethics of psychiatry.  We are pictured here with Heidi Bunes, the Executive Director of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, and with Dr. Joanna Brandt, the Chair of the MPS Ethics Committee.  We received many compliments on our book and we both felt it was such an privilege to receive this award.  If you ' ve never been to an APA annual meeting, first you need to know that it ' s overwhelming!  There are poster sessions and at any given time there are workshops, symposia, lectures, courses, and events that are held in the Javits Convention Center as well as in the meeting rooms and ballrooms at the Times Square Marriott and Sheraton.  If you don ' t go early to a popular session, you can be sent to an overflow room or simply squeezed out.  Some of the sessions I wanted to go to had no room in the overflow rooms!  Some years there are very famous speakers: Alan Alda, VP Joseph Biden, Oliver Saks, and Desmond Tutu come to mind from past years. This year, I decided to make a point of covering one of the sessions for my co...
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