CP3: The Center for Philosophy, Psychology and Psychiatry
Michael J. Miller, Ph.D., Director
What is CP3?
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has a long tradition of engagement in philosophy. We have been the academic home of Ernest Becker, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death, had a major impact on our culture in the 20th Century, as well as Thomas Szasz, whose iconoclastic work The Myth of Mental Illness was pivotal to the anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry movements. In addition to Becker and Szasz, many of our faculty over the years, including Robert Daly, Eugene Kaplan, Ronald Pies, Chaitan Haldipur, Michael Miller, have worked at the intersection of philosophy, psychiatry, and psychology.
In that tradition, the Center for Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry (or CP3) was founded in January, 2023. We are a group of faculty and staff from within this department, as well as from the medical center at large and the community beyond it, who share an interest in philosophical thought about our work.
We meet monthly for a presentation by one of our regular members, or an external invited speaker. Our speakers have included some of the foremost thinkers of our day in philosophy of pscyhiatry, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, existential and humanistic psychology, and critical psychiatry. See below for the list of 2023 events.
If you would like to join CP3, please email Michael Miller, Ph.D., at [email protected]
CP3 Presentations: 2023 |
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Presenter |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Ronald Pies, MD |
Upstate Medical University |
The Work and Legacy of Thomas Szasz |
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Michael Miller, Ph.D. |
Upstate Medical University |
Nietszche’s Prefiguration of Freud in Beyond Good and Evil |
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Awais Aftab, MD |
Case Western Reserve University |
Psychiatry in the 21st Century: Critical and Philosophical Perspectives |
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Nassir Ghaemi, MD |
Tufts University |
On Karl Jaspers |
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Chaitanya Haldipur, MD |
Upstate Medical University |
Psychiatry in Literature: Machado de Assis |
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Daniel Berthold, Ph.D. |
Bard College |
Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness |
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Ronald Pies, MD |
Upstate Medical University |
Compassion in Psychotherapy and the Healing Process: A Bio-Psycho-Spiritual Perspective |
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Richard Boothby, Ph.D. |
Loyola University |
Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred with Freud and Lacan |
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Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. |
Columbia University and Saybrook University |
The Experiential Democracy Dialogue, A Half-Day Workshop |