Forums
Individuals doing research, scholarship,
or clinical work (or those who have an interest) in the
areas described are invited to join these e-mail
conferences. Our hope is that these forums will be
enriching, entertaining and informative, and perhaps will
be a breeding ground for conceptual and theoretical
innovation. When you elect to join any of InterPsych's
conferences, you will be sent an introduction which
elaborates further on the purposes of the conference,
lists files in the conference archives, and gives
instructions for participating in a conference.
Addiction medicine (add_med)
Affective disorders
Anxiety Disorders Forum
Attachment issues: ATTACH
Behavior Analysis List (Behav-An)
Computers In Mental Health
Clinical psychophysiology and Biofeedback (PSYPHY)
Dissociative-disorders
Eating Disorders
Group Psychotherapy
Helplessness
Hypnosis
Latin Psych
Psychiatric nurses (PSYNURSE)
Psychiatric social workers (PSYC-SOC)
Psychoanalysis & the Public Sphere
(psa-public-sphere)
Psychohistory
Psychosoma (Psychosomatic
and behavioral medicine)
Public Mental Health
Research Design
Rorschach Information and Discussion
Group
Rural-care
Secondary-Traumatic-Stress
Telehealth
TelehealthNews
Transcultural-psychology
Traumatic Stress Forum
Addiction medicine (add_med)
Description: Add_med is devoted
to the discussion of topics related to addiction, and
behaviours that can be viewed with an addictive model.
Forum Leaders: Peter E Mezciems, MD
Membership: Limited to those working
professionally or those studying in the fields of mental
health/addictions/substance dependence/medicine.
Numbers: about 300.
Messages per week: about 10-75
Web site: No
To join: Send a description of involvement in the
above fields, or a CV to Peter E Mezciems, MD
Further info:
Updated 16 Dec 1998
Affective
disorders
Description: Considers clinical,
research and theoretical issues related to mood disorders.
Forum Leaders: Steven L Dubovsky,
M.D.
Membership: Membership is limited to professionals
or professional students.
Numbers: ?
Messages per week: ?
Web site: No
To join: Send a description of involvement in the
above fields, or a CV to Steven L Dubovsky,
M.D.
Further info:
Updated 16 Dec 1998
Anxiety Disorders
Forum
Description: This Forum was
established by three leaders in the study and treatment
of Anxiety Disorders, Andrew Baillie (andrewb@crufad.unsw.edu.au)and
Justin Kenardy (kenardy@psy.uq.edu.au)from Australia and
Peter Perlman (pperlman@acpub.duke.edu)from the US. We
are in their debt for their hard work.
The PURPOSE of the Forum is to provide a resource
to professionals studying or treating anxiety disorders.
It is also for academics to teach and train the next
generation of researcher and practitioners. Thus,
colleagues may send out message to alert others about an
upcoming conference, a new book just out, a recent
discovery, or other important information. Sometimes,
though, the discussion is rather informal and lacks focus.
The overall purpose, though, is to collectively add to
our collective knowledge about anxiety disorders.
However, the Forum is not restricted to these
profesionals, teachers, and scholars. Members of the
general public are welcome to join us. They often have
important insights often lost by professionals.
At the same time, the purpose of the Forum is not
to seek advice or reactions to personal problems. There
are many, many excellent lists established for this
purpose.
Forum Leaders: Charles R.
Figley, Ph.D. and Dr. Shel
Membership: Self proclaimed professional
Numbers: 50-80.
Messages per week: about 3-20
Web site: No
To join: Send a description of interest to Charles R.
Figley, Ph.D or send a message to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
with subscribe anx-dis in the body of the message
Further info:
Updated 11 March 1999
Attachment issues:
ATTACH
Description: The ATACH Forum
was created to facilitate the understanding, elaboration,
testing, and application of Bowlby and Ainsworth's
attachment theory and the sizable body of research it has
generated.
Forum Leaders: Chuck
Hollister, Ph.D., ATTACH-request@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
Membership: Although primarily a list for
professionals, the list is open to all.
Numbers: 250.
Messages per week: about 5-10
Web site: No
To join: To subscribe to ATTACH send the following
message to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
Subscribe ATTACH First name Last name
Further info:
Updated 14 June 1999
Behavior
Analysis List (Behav-An)
Description: There is a very exciting
new development on the Internet for those interested in
behavior analysis, psychology, and the application of
behavior principles to clinical issues as well as
everyday life. Behav-An, the original and premier
Internet list for behavior analysis that I started over 5
years ago has moved to the Behavioral Virtual Community (BVC)
of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. The list
is dedicated to behavior analysis, incorporating
discussion of basic research and clinical issues,
especially the interrelatedness of behavior analysis to
clinical psychology and psychiatry and other
interdisciplinary areas. The list is also dedicated to
basic discussion in behaviorism and society,.
Forum Leaders: Dr. Joseph J. Plaud
Membership: All are encouraged to join us,
regardless of your background!
Numbers: ?
Messages per week: ?
Web site: www.virtualcommunity.org:8080/~Behav-an
To join: Go to the web address above.
Updated 23 Sept 1999
Computers in
Mental Health
Description: CIMH is about the
use and experience of computers within the field of
mental health. It is not a discussion list about mental
health. The topics discussed include billing and
management programs, assessment and treatment programs,
ethics, confidentiality, and sometimes we stray a little
and discuss useful www sites, online psychotherapy etc
but there are other lists that cover those areas in more
detail. If you are looking for general mental health
information this list is probably not for you.
Forum Leaders: Martin Briscoe)
and Carl
Littlejohns.
Membership: Professionals with an interest in the
subject.
Numbers: about 350.
Messages per week: about 5-20
Web site: www.ex.ac.uk/cimh
To join: send email in
the text write 'sub cimh' lastname firstname. You
will then be sent an application form by email.
Further info: Frenquently Asked
Questions about the List
Updated 23 Sept 1999
Clinical
psychophysiology and Biofeedback (PSYPHY)
Description: Clinical-Psychophysiology is a
an electronic discussion list for individuals who use
psychophysiological technique in the fields of Medicine,
Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work, Physical Therapy,
Education, and Sport.
The following topics are an example of the list's
scope:
Issues of physical health and illness.
Biofeedback technique in the modification of
physiological activity.
Stress research and management.
Clinical application of Biofeedback and self regulation
technique.
The use of physiological measures in clinical psychology
and psychiatry.
Issues of performance enhancement.
Forum Leaders: Dr. Arnon Rolnick
Membership: Mainly for professionals
Size: about 500 members.
Messages per week: about 120
How to join: Send email
containing the words "SUBSCRIBE PSYPHY"
followed by your first name, last name.
Web site: Clinical
Psychophysiology
Updated 12 Dec 1998
Dissociative-disorders
Description: This list focuses on research
and treatment in the field of dissociation and
dissociative disorders.
Forum Leaders: David H. Gleaves
Membership: The list is open to licensed mental
health professionals and those practicing under their
supervision, graduate students who are enrolled in a
mental health related curriculum, and researchers who
have published in a peer-reviewed journal on related
subjects.
Size: about 450 members.
Messages per week: about 50-70
How to join: Send email
containing the words "SUB DISSOC" followed by
your first name, last name, and degree. You will get back
a reply explaining how to submit your credentials to the
moderator.
Web site: No
Updated 5 August 2000
Eating Disorders
Description: Eating-disorders is an
international electronic forum for the exchanges of ideas,
opinions, and information on clinical and research
aspects of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, obesity, and
other atypical patterns or eating behavior.
Forum Leader: David H. Gleaves
Membership: Eating-Disorders is intended largely
for mental-health professionals and professionals-to-be
in both academic and applied settings. However,
participation by professionals in other disciplines is
also encouraged to add diversity and variety.
Size: about 270 members.
Messages per week: about 0-40
How to join: Send email
containing the words "SUB eat-dis" followed by
your first name and last name.
Web site: No
Updated 11 Dec 1998
Group Psychotherapy
Description: This list is to encourage the
development of group psychotherapy and group work,
through the exchange of ideas between professionals in
this field from all over the world. Professionals
can exchange ideas, publish essays, consult colleagues,
ask for references, describe their professional
experience, suggest new techniques, discuss research in
progress or inform others about important conferences and
workshops.
List owner: Haim Weinberg,
clinical psychologist & group psychotherapist.
Membership: Participation in this group is
recommended for: Group-Psychotherapists, group-analysts,
psychiatrists, psychologists, psycho-dramatists, social
workers, counsellors, art therapists, organization
consultants, and other professionals from the field of
social sciences interested in group work and group
therapy.
Size: about 500 members.
Messages per week: about 14-40
How to join: Send email
containing the words "SUBSCRIBE GROUP-PSYCHOTHERAPY"
followed by your first name and last name.
Web site: Group-psychotherapy
home-page
Updated 12 Dec 1998
Helplessness
Description: This list provides a forum for
scholarly discussion of learned helplessness and
explanatory style. With regrets, we cannot be a forum for
discussion of personal problems or a place for supportive
discussion.
Forum Leaders: David M.
Fresco
Martin
E. P. Seligman
Membership: Individuals doing research or
scholarship within this domain, broadly construed, are
welcome. Faculty, graduate students and undergraduate
researchers are especially invited.
Size: 350
Messages per week: about 2-3
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE HELPLESSNESS'
YourFirstName YourLastName
Web sites: Helplessness
Updated 10 Dec 1998
Hypnosis
Description: Hypnosis has been set up to
encourage an exchange of ideas, opinions, and information
among researchers and scientifically minded clinicians
who are interested in hypnosis and in the broader topics
of suggestion and suggestibility.
Forum Leaders: Irving Kirsch
Membership: Subscriptions to Hypnosis are
restriced to members of APA Division 30, constituent
societies of the International Society of Hypnosis (e.g.,
ASCH, SCEH, ASH, etc.), or ISH itself if there is no
constituent society in your country.
Size: about 300 members.
Messages per week: about 20
How to join: Send email
with the words "SUB hypnosis" followed by your
first name, last name, and degree.
Web site: No
Updated 10 Dec 1998
Latin Psych
Description: Latin Psych is an international
mental health list devoted to Spanish speaking mental
health professionals. Students and residents in
Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work and related fields
are welcomed. It is a closed list. Topics discussed are
related to issues in Mental Health. Announcements are
welcomed as long as the person making them does
contributes to the ongoing discussion. It does not have a
commercial agenda.
Forum Leaders: Hector R. Biaggi, M.D.
& Diego
Gonzalez Castanion, M.D.
Membership: A brief Curriculum Vitae must be sent
to the list moderators for consideration. Those living in
Central and South America should submit their CV to Dr.
Gonzalez Castagnion and does living in The Caribbean,
United States and Europe should send their requests to Dr.
Biaggi.
Size: about 90 members.
Messages per week: about 15
How to join: As above. A brief Curriculum Vitae
with an introductory letter must be submitted to the
moderators (see above). An office, home, or work location
must be specified with the corresponding telephone number.
Web site: No
Updated 12 Dec 1998
Psychiatric nurses
(PSYNURSE)
Description: A list only for qualified
psychiatric/mental health nurses working in any part of
the discipline. Where they can chat about anything they
want but more to do with work issues and if they choose,
use with members permission each others resources for
research. Unless they choose to share what they have
written on the list the content should be comparatively
safe.
Forum Leaders: Mike
Carter
Membership: Qualified psychiatric/mental heath
nurses.
Size: ?
Messages per week: v. quiet
How to join:
Web sites: No
Updated 16 Dec 1998
Psychiatric social
workers (PSYC-SOC)
Description: This is a list for psychiatric
social workers discussing issues of treatment and
diagnosis. Sometimes a bit heavy on theory.
Forum Leaders: Jeff Starrfield
Paul Emmett
Membership: There is no preselection of members -
though non psychiatric professionals would probably get
bored very quickly. There are some movement therapists
who are active members.
Size: 150
Messages per week: very variable
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE psyc-soc' Your First
Name Your Last Name
Web sites: No
Updated 14 Dec 1998
Psychoanalysis
& the Public Sphere (psa-public-sphere)
Description: For discussion of wider social,
cultural, philosophical, political, ideological,
institutional and related aspects of psychoanalysis and
other psychodynamic approaches. (This is not to exclude
the clinical but to frame clinical matters contextually.)
Matters of concern to the profession, including funding,
efficacy, and critiques are also welcome fare, as is any
psychodynamically-related topic.
Forum Leaders: Mark
Alexander & Robert M. Young
Membership: open
Size: 500
Messages per week: up to 30
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'subscribe psa-public-sphere' your
name
Web sites: Free
Associations/Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere
Updated 14 Dec 1998
Psychohistory (PH-L)
Description: PH-L welcomes
individuals studying or doing research in the field of
psychohistory as broadly defined. Psychohistorians strive
to explain why persons and groups of people behaved as
they have in history through the use of psychoanalytic
principles and interdisciplinary methods. History of
childhood, psychobiograpy, and group psychohistory are
within the scope of this field of study.
Forum Leaders: Michael Hirohama
Membership: open
Numbers: about 160
Messages per week: about 60
How to join: Send email with
any message body or send email for
a digest subscription.
Web site: sooth.com/ph/ml.html
Further info:
sooth.com/ph/
Updated 5 Feb 1999
Psychosoma
Description: Psychosoma is an Internet
discussion group for professionals who are interested in
psychosomatic and behavioral medicine. Psychosoma focus
on the interdisciplinary field concerned with the
development and integration of behavioral and biomedical
science knowledge and techniques relevant to the
understanding of health and illness, and the application
of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention,
diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
Forum Leaders: Dr. A. Rolnick
Davida
Mone Rodrigues,M.D.
Membership: professionals who are interested in
psychosomatic and behavioral medicine.
Size: 100
Messages per week: about 1
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE psychosoma' Your First
Name Your Last Name
Web sites: Psychosoma
homepage
Updated 12 Dec 1998
Public Mental
Health
Description: A list for public health
specialists, epidemiologists and heath services planners
interested in mental health care, and mental health
specialists interested in service design, needs
assessment, planning and evaluation.
Forum Leaders: Gyles
Glover
Membership: See above . Individuals admitted by
forum leader in response to giving basic details of who
they are.
Size: Just starting up about 15 so far
Messages per week: too early to say
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE PMH' Your First Name
Your Last Name
Web sites: Not as yet
Updated 12 March 1999
Research-Design
Description: This is an open discussion list
for issues related to designing and doing research in
mental health care.
Forum Leaders: B.
Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D.
Membership:open
Size: about 60
Messages per week: about 1-2
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE Research-Design' Your
Name
Web sites: No
Updated 5 August 2000
Rorschach
Information and Discussion Group
Description: The Rorschach list is the
premier internet source for discussion of all aspects of
the Rorschach and other projective techniques. We have on-going
discussions among our international membership on many
aspects of projective techniques with a primary emphasis
on the Rorschach.
Forum Leaders: Jack J. Gerber, Ph.D.
Membership:The list is open to qualified
psychiatrists, psychologists, and doctoral students who
can demonstrate a familiarity with the Rorschach. It is
not open to the general public.
Size: about 230
Messages per week: about 40-60
How to join: Send
e-mail to Jack Gerber with a note requesting
instructions on joining the Rorschach list.
Web sites: No
Updated 12 Dec 1998
Rural-Care
Description: For the self-care support of
isolated-health care workers in rural and bush
communities, and for the continuing dialogue of those
concerned with health care delivery in remote and
developing areas worldwide.
Forum Leaders: B.
Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D.
Membership:open
Size: about 200
Messages per week: about 20
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE Rural-Care' Your Name
Web sites: Rural
Care
Updated 5 August 2000
Secondary-Traumatic-Stress
Description: A forum for professional
caregivers, researchers, and graduate students who work
with traumatic stress.
Forum Leaders: B.
Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D.
Membership: Professional caregivers, researchers,
and graduate students who work with traumatic stress
Size: about 140
Messages per week: about 1-2
How to join: Send email with
the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE Secondary-Traumatic-Stress'
Your First Name Your Last Name and a brief (1-2 sentence)
discription of your volunteer, professsional or
professional work with traumatic stress
Web sites: Traumatic
Stress & Secondary Traumatic Stress
Updated 5 August 2000
Telehealth
Description:Telehealth resource list for
professionals, vendors, gov't representatives and
employees working with telehealth infrastructure
development.
Forum Leader: Marlene Maheu
Membership: Open to all
Size: about 400
Messages per week: 3-10
How to join: visit telehealth
web site or
Send
email with the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE
TELEHEALTH' Your First Name Your Last Name
Web sites: Telehealth
Updated 5 August 2000
TelehealthNews
Description: Quarterly newsletter detailing
resources and services for the telehealth community.
Forum Leaders: Marlene Maheu
Membership: Open to all
Size: about 400
Messages per week: 1 newsletter every 3 months
How to join: visit telehealth
web site or
Send
email with the following message: 'SUBSCRIBE
TELEHEALTHNEWS' Your First Name Your Last Name
Web sites: Telehealth
Updated 12 March 1999
Transcultural-psychology
Description: Providing a world-wide
electronic forum for the exchange of ideas, opinions and
information among professionals interested in cross-cultural
research, minority issues, and "indigenous
psychologies". The main focus is on generic issues
in the study of cultures, and topics in the field of
counseling and clinical psychology, including the
delivery of mental health services to individuals from
non-Western cultures and minorities.
Forum Leaders: Sunkyo Kwon
(primary & tech contact)
Elsa Germain
Sushila F. Niles
Paul B. Pedersen
Membership: Interest in the subject area (not
credentialed)
Size: about 500 members.
Messages per week: about 30
How to join: Send email
in the body of the message put subscribe transcultural-psychology
Web site: No
Updated 10 Dec 1998
Traumatic Stress
Forum
Description: The Forum was established in
April, 1994. It was the first list established after the
flagship list, Psychiatry, was established by Ian
Pitchford in February, 1994. Our T-S Forum focuses on the
all matters of interest to the emerging field of
Traumatology, which is the study, treatment, and
reporting of information about the immediate and long-term
psychsocial, and psychobiological consequences of highly
stressful events and circumstances. Forum members are
researchers, practitioners, reporters, policy makers,
students, professors, and others who are interested in
contributing to the field.
Forum Leaders: Charles R. Figley,
Ph.D.
Membership: Sign agreement of behavior when
posting to and utilizing posts to the Forum.
Size: ?
Messages per week: about 35-55
How to join: Send email with
the following message without a subject line: 'sub
traumatic-stress'
Web sites:
FSU Traumatology Institute and Green Cross: www.fsu.edu/~gcp
and our training: www.cpd.fsu.edu/pet/trauma.htm
TRAUMATOLOGYe: www.fsu.edu/~trauma/
Updated 10 Dec 1998
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