Dr. Diana Lynn Barnes Psy.D. LMFT

07/10/2025

I’m presenting at the PSI Conference in New Orleans on Friday July 11: Criminally Charged: a trauma-informed perspective on unperceived pregnancies.

The 2025 Conference is scheduled July 9-13, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Pre-conference training will be held July 9-10, 2025.

05/12/2025

Thrilled to announce upcoming special collection on Forensics and Maternal Mental Illness in the Archives of Women’s Mental Health.

Please see editorial.

08/30/2024

9/4/24 - I’m excited to present at a pre-conference workshop on “From Exploring the Role of the Perinatal Expert in Filicide Cases to Education, Advocacy, and Reform for Perinatal Mental Illness.” with colleagues Dr. Susan Benjamin Feingold and Dr. Nirmaljit Dhami at the biennial meeting of the international Marce Society in Barcelona.

04/29/2024

May 3 I will be presenting on Altruistic Filicide: A Trauma-Informed Perspective at the 2024 Yale University’s annual Womens Mental Health Conference.

This session will be available via the Whova app.

03/05/2024

I am pleased to be presenting on Saturday March 9 at the biennial conference of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology with my esteemed International Marce Society colleagues, Nirmaljit Dhami, Claudia Klier, Brooke Laufer and Katherine Wisner - When Maternal Mental Illness Becomes Criminal.

12/10/2022

Happy to announce that I am co-editor of a topical collection on Women's Reproductive Mental Health Forensics and would like to extend the invitation to submit a research paper on this topic.

https://www.springer.com/journal/737/updates/23777148

The Archives of Women's Mental Health is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on maternal mental health.

The field of perinatal mental health has gained a prominent place not only in the clinical world but in the justice system where criminal cases of infanticide and filicide are decided. Those in the legal system (judges, attorneys) are recognizing a diagnostic link between infanticide and perinatal m...

09/27/2022

Thank you Alessandra Bramante for inviting me to speak at your conference in Milan Italy on October 8. Understanding the Unperceived Pregnancy.

09/12/2022

I am excited to be presenting at the International Marcé Society conference in London. I will be presenting on 9/19 on “postpartum psychosis and the courts: It’s not always about infanticide.”
On 9/21, I will be presenting along with my esteemed colleagues Claudia Klier and Oguz Omay with co-chairs Jane Fisher and Alain Gregoire on “Unperceived or denied? Developing a lexicon to better understand pregnancy denial and neonaticide."

07/12/2022

7/15-17; I'm so excited to be presenting on Pregnancy Denial as a Dissociative Disorder: A Call for Inclusion in the DSM and Co-presenting with Brooke Lauferat on Postpartum Psychosis: Changing the Narrative in the Courtroom at the Annual PSI Conference in New Orleans:

The 2020 PSI Conference is a Online Virtual Conference from July 8-12, 2020.

05/04/2022

To Register: https://www.wmhconference.org/2022

04/25/2022

I will be presenting this morning on the Myth of Maternal Bliss: Understanding Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

https://www.nursingconferenceeurope.com

Nursing Convention 2022 expects more than 100 elite speakers from all over the world. Join us virtually to connect with your peers.

04/25/2022

I hope you'll register: https://whova.com/portal/registration/wmhc_202205/