Ira Steinman, MD

Here, Dr Ira Steinman discusses the concept behind an upcoming conference, "

Beyond Pandora's Box: Exploring Integrative Approaches to Treating Psychosis

." With a focus on integrative approaches to psychiatric illnesses, especially schizophrenia, the conference will highlight psychotherapeutic approaches in addition to evidence-based practices and judicious use of antipsychotic medications to treat patients experiencing hallucinations, delusions, and psychotic thinking.

             The U.S. chapter of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments Schizophrenia (

) will host the meeting in San Francisco, October 14 to 16. A full program of the ISPS program can be found here: 

http://www.isps-us.org/isps-us_2011_program.html

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             Dr Steinman is a psychiatrist in Private Practice in San Francisco, specializing in the Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and the Severely Disturbed. He is the author of 

Treating the "Untreatable": Healing in the Realms of Madness

Additional information about Dr Steinman may be found at 

Pandora's Box and Integrative Treatment of Schizophrenia

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Here, Dr Ira Steinman, discusses the concept behind  "Beyond Pandora's Box: Exploring Integrative Approaches to Treating Psychosis." 

Ira Steinman, MD

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Podcast: Pandora's Box and Integrative Treatment of Schizophrenia