Nine to Present Award Lectrues at Annual Meeting

Nine individuals have been selected to present award lectures at APA's 1998 annual meeting, which is being held in Toronto May 30 to June 4. The following are the names of the lecturers and the awards they have won. The time, date, and location of each lecture will be published in the program book distributed at the annual meeting.

A list of all individuals presented with awards at APA's 1998 annual meeting will be published after the annual meeting.

• Allen E. Bergin, Ph.D., Oskar Pfister Award: Bergin will present the lecture "Spiritual and Religious Issues in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy." Bergin is a professor of psychiatry and former director of both the clinical psychology doctoral program and the Values Institute at Brigham Young University. In his lecture he will provide a schema for resolving problems in applying spiritual perspectives to serious psychopathology. He will outline seven healthy and seven unhealthy ways of being religious and describe devices for assessing religiousness and its positive and negative aspects.



• Javier I. Escobar, M.D., Simon Bolivar Award: Escobar is professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has held a number of major national and international appointments, including advisor to the World Health Organization and codirector of the North American W.H.O. Collaborating Center at Farmington and St. Louis. His lecture is titled "Immigration and Psychopathology: Is There a Connection?" His research reveals interesting differences in the psychopathology of Mexican-American immigrants and U.S.-born counterparts, favoring the immigrants.



• Professor Sir David Goldberg, Adolf Meyer Award: Goldberg is a professor of psychiatry and director of research and development at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He is the designer of the General Health Questionnaire, which has been translated into 48 languages and is probably the most widely used screening questionnaire in the world. He will present the lecture "The Course of Common Mental Disorders: Vulnerability, Destabilization, and Restitution."



• Elizabeth Lunbeck, Benjamin Rush Award: Lunbeck is an associate professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America, which won the John Hope Franklin Prize by the American Studies Association and the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best book in intellectual history in 1994. In her lecture, "The Empty Self: Borderline Personality Disorder in Historical Perspective," she will examine the clinical and cultural emergence of borderline personality disorder.



• Arthur R. Miller, Patient Advocacy Award: Miller is the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1971. Among lawyers he is nationally known for his work on court procedure, copyright and unfair competition, and remedies. The public knows him for his work in the field of the right to privacy and on television. Since July 1980 he has been the legal editor on ABC's "Good Morning America" and hosts the weekly "Miller's Law" program on the Courtroom Television Network. He has conducted Socratic dialogues for several acclaimed PBS series and won an Emmy for "The Sovereign Self."



• Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., Solomon Carter Fuller Award: Prothrow-Stith is a nationally recognized public health leader with applied and academic experience ranging from working in neighborhood clinics and inner-city hospitals to serving as state commissioner of mental health and dean and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is now director and professor of the Division of Public Health Practice. The title of her lecture is "Violence Prevention: A Public Health Mandate." She believes that preventing violence demands a public health approach that focuses on risk-factor analysis, not criminal justice.



• James H. Shore, M.D., Vestermark Award: Shore is professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and superintendent of the Colorado Psychiatric Hospital. In his lecture, "Educational Imperative: A Unified Psychotherapy Curriculum," he will propose that a unified model for the psychotherapies is the only effective way to overcome the current diversity and dilution of psychotherapy training. He believes this step is critical to succeed in retaining psychotherapy as a core identity for psychiatrists.



• Larry H. Strasburger, M.D., Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., and Archie Brodsky, Manfred S. Guttmacher Award: Their lecture is titled "Two Hats Revisited: Contexts, Complications, and Compromises Between Clinical and Forensic Roles." Strasburger, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has been extensively involved in setting standards for the practice of forensic psychiatry. Gutheil is codirector of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, where Brodsky is a senior research associate. All three have written at length on forensic psychiatry and related issues.



• Michael J. Vergare, M.D., Administrative Psychiatry Award: Vergare, a professor and senior associate chair of psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine, will present the lecture "Follow the Leader: From Institutions to Systems of Care." As the locus of care and education shifts from defined locations to abstract networks, medical leaders and policymakers face new challenges and tasks. The new networks call for reexamination of traditional thinking concerning psychiatric management and administration.