Speaking

Conferences

• “If Not Biomedical Psychiatry, Then What? Trauma-Informed Care.” International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry. Los Angeles, CA, October 28, 2011. LKKerr_ISEPP-2011
• “A World Absent Emotions?” International Society of Critical Health Psychology, The University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 10 July 2009.
• “What Does It Mean To Be Human?” International Society of Critical Health Psychology, The University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 9 July 2009.
• “Why Does Prozac Work?” International Society for Theoretical Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 19, 2007. LKKerr_Why Does Prozac Work?
• “Who Are the Incarcerated Mentally Ill?” At “Mental Health and the Law.” Ninth Annual Conference of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, in collaboration with The American University Washington College of Law. Washington, DC, October, 7, 2006.
• “Life and Illness in Late Modern America.” Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Gender & Women Studies, University of California. Berkeley, CA, April 4, 2006.
• “When Trauma Came Home: Mental Illness and Emotional Distress in Late Modern America.” Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Gender & Women Studies, University of California. Berkeley, CA, November 8, 2005. LKKerr_When Trauma Came Home
• “Disease in the Information Age.” Making Sense of: Health, Illness, and Disease. Mansfield College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, July 5, 2005.
• “A Feminist, Postmodern Conception of the Trauma Model.” Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, June 20, 2005. LKKerr_ISTP2005
• “Reforming Mental Health Services.” Panelist, Education & Training Sub-Committee Behavioral Health Innovations Task Force for the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63), San Francisco, CA, June 6, 2005.
• “Making Sense of the Emergence of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Late Modern/Postmodern America.” Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford University, December 15, 2004. LKKerr_Making Sense of DID
• “Growing Up On the Borderline: The Sociocultural Origins of Borderline Personality Disorder.” Eighth Annual Conference of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. New York City, New York, October 9, 2004.
• “Postmodern Diagnosing: Self Before Science in the Search for Identity.” Narrative Matters 2004: The Power of Story in a Postmodern World. St. Thomas University & The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 22, 2004.
• “Listening for Pathos in Psychiatry’s Tales of Pathology: The Normative Existences of Incest Survivors.” Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford University, April 14, 2004. LKKerr_IRWG2004
• “The Search for Selfhood in the Mental Health Sciences.” Counseling and Psychological Services, Vaden Health Center, Stanford University, April 2, 2004.
• “Am I That Disease?” NARRATIVES of Disease, Disability, and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Conference. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 10, 2002.
• “Can We Talk? The Necessity and Challenge of Communication for Resiliency in Youth.” Mental Illness in the Classroom: Hope and Recovery Conference. Institute of Mental Illness and Wellness Education, California State University, Hayward, CA, March 9, 2002.
• “Moods in Context.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. New Orleans, LA, April 13, 2001.