PHENOMENOLOGY Marvin J. McDonald, University of Wisconsin, Marathon Center, "An Agenda for Proactive Theory Construction in Community Psychology" Leon H. Rappoport, Kansas State University, "Psychosocial and Philosophical Problematic of Foodways" 2:00 - 2:50 Renewal in Psychological Theory Frederick J. Wertz, Division of Social Sciences, Fordham University, College at Lincoln Center - Chair Baraby B. Barratt, Biringham, MI, "Four Lines of Retreat from Psychoanalysis" James R. K. Heinen, Darden School of Education, Old Dominion University, "A Primer on Psychological Theory" Neil McK. Agnew, York University, "Knowledge in a Post-positvistic Period" 3:00 - 3:50 Presidential Address (cosponsored )py Division 32) Joseph I. Rychlak, Loyola University of Chicato - Chair Constance T. Fischer, Duquesne University, "The Quality of Qualitative Research" 4:00 - 4:30 Division 24 Business Meeting 4:30 - 5:50 Division 24 Social Hour Phenomenology and Psychiatry: Duquesne Conference Considers the Conjunction Carl Bonner and Glen Sherman Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA. The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center of Duquesne University sponsored its fourth annual symposium on March 6 - 7 , 1986. The topic this year was "Phenomenology and Psychiatry." Headlining the group of notable symposiasts was J.H. van den Berg from the University of Leiden. Other participating phenomenological psychia- trists were Gion Condrau of Zurich, Alfred Kraus of Heidelberg, and Dieter Wyss of Wurzburg. After introductory remarks by Father Edward L. Murray, professor of psychology at Duquesne, Dr. van den Berg gave the opening presentation, entitled "The beginning and waning of the medical model in Psychiatry." In his talk van den Berg compared the cultural context of the inception of the medical model, that of 18th century revolutionary France, with that of the modern anti-psychiatry movement. In line with the liberating spirit of the Revolution, the chains of those bound in asylums were unleashed, thus marking the transition from their status as mad to that of patients. In our time, van den Berg asserted, this movement toward liberation has ironically become inhumane. Citing Italy's 1978 abolition of all state psychiatric hospitals, van den Berg described the lot of these disenfranchised patients — that they have been left to fend for themselves on the street, oftentimes reduced to the life of a vagabond. 68 This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.