Christopher Barden

Christopher Barden
Born	1954
Residence	Edina, Minnesota
Profession	attorney, psychologist
Political Affiliation	Republican Party of Minnesota
Alma mater	University of Minnesota University of California Harvard Law School

R. Christopher Barden (born 1954) Ph.D., J.D., L.P. is a psychologist and attorney who lives in Edina, Minnesota. He served as the director of the National Association for Consumer Protection In Mental Health Practices (NACPMHP) from 1995-2005. In 2005, the NACPMHP merged into the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health (CSMMH), a national health care consumer protection agency whose members include physicians, scientists and researchers.

Chris Barden in 2010

Biography

Education

Barden was educated at the Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota, receiving his B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Distinguished Graduating Senior Award, in 1976. He attended graduate school at the University of California in Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and the Palo Alto V.A./Stanford University Medical Center, where he interned, receiving his Ph.D. in Child and Adult Clinical Psychology in 1982. He later attended Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, receiving his J.D. cum laude in 1992. He became a licensed psychologist in Texas in 1984 and in Minnesota in 1988. He has been a licensed Minnesota attorney since 1992, and a certified Minnesota mediator since 1994.

Career

Barden has participated as an attorney or consultant in dozens of lawsuits against "recovered memory" therapists. A recent amicus curiae brief to the California Supreme Court drafted by Barden and signed by nearly 100 international experts in the field of human memory emphasized that there is no credible scientific support for the notions of repressed and recovered memories.

Political Campaign

On April 28, 2010, Barden announced that he would seek the Republican Party of Minnesota's endorsement for Attorney General of Minnesota. He received that endorsement at the party's state convention on April 29, 2010, and lost his challenge to incumbent Attorney General Lori Swanson in the November 2010 general election.

Publications

Barden has published in journals and texts in child psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, surgery, pediatrics, and law.

Amicus Briefs

Christopher Barden et al. (2009) Amicus Curiae Brief of The International Committee of Social, Psychiatric, Psychological, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Neurological Scientists,  Submitted to the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Massachusetts in State v. Shanley, August 21, 2009.

Christopher Barden et al. (2006) Amicus Curiae Brief of the National Committee of Scientists for Academic Liberty, for Defendants and Appellants, Elizabeth Loftus, et. al., Submitted to the Supreme Court of the State of California, Feb., 2006.

Articles

Barden, R.C. (2003) ""Building Multi-Disciplinary Legal-Scientific Teams in Parental Alienation Syndrome Cases", In Boch-Galhau, W., Kodjoe, U., Andritzky, W. and Koeppel, P. (Eds)  Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS):  A Challenge for Professionals Involved in Family Law (2003), VWB - Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung, Frankfurt, Germany. 

Grove, W. M., Barden, R. C., Garb, H. N., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2002). The Failure of Rorschach-Comprehensive-System-based testimony to be admissible under the Daubert-Joiner-Kumho standards. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 8, 216-234.

Barden, R.C. (2001)  Informed Consent in Psychotherapy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol 29, No. 2, pgs. 160-166, 2001. 

Grove, W. M. and Barden, R.C. (2000) Protecting the Integrity of the Legal System : The Admissibility of Testimony from Mental Health Experts Under Daubert/Kumho Analyses, Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Vol 5, No. 1, 234-242.  Excerpts reprinted in Fisher, George (Prof. Stanford Law School), Evidence: University Casebook Series, Foundation Press - West Group, New York, 2002, pg. 688.     See, http://www.psych.umn.edu/faculty/grove/095protectingtheintegrityof.pdf

Barden,  R. C. and Albert, S.  "Informed Consent: An Interview with R. C. Barden" In the publication series “From the Board of Psychology”. Minnesota Psychologist, Jan, 1997, pg. 1112. 

Barden,  R. C.  "Repressed Memories: Science or Myth?", Internal Medicine, Audio Digest, Volume 43, Number 4, Feb. 1996.  Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association of North America,  San Francisco, CA. 

Barden, R. C.  Scientific Research on the Suggestibility of Children as Witnesses.  Amicus Brief to the Texas State Court of Appeals.  Argued by request of the Court on February 1, 1995 in State v. Perkins . 

Barden, R. C. (with signatories Paul E. Meehl, Terence W. Campbell, Richard Ofshe, Richard A. Gardner, M.D., Margaret Singer, William Grove, Michael D. Yapko, Robyn Dawes, Richard Flyer, M.D., Robert Kinscherff, J.D., Mel Guyer, J.D., Francis Fincham, Thom Moore, Henry E. Adams, E. Mark Cummings, Lewis P. Lipsitt, Donald M. Kaplan, Robert R. Holt, Richard M. McFall, Hans H. Strupp, Stephen J. Lepore, Lee Sechrest, Paul Ekman, Hans J. Eysenck, ;  Vers. II Jerome Kagan, George Stricker, Debra Ann Poole, Mark L. Howe, J. Don Read, Howard Shevrin)  (1994)  Letter to the Congress of the United States of America regarding reform of the mental health system.  reprinted in Dineen, Tana. Manufacturing Victims. Montreal. Robert Davies Publishing,  First Edition, 1996. 

Barden, R.C. as Secretary of the Committee together with the Hon. James Ramstad and the Minnesota 3rd U.S. Congressional District Health Care Advisory Board. (1994-1995) The Health Care System of the United States:  Access, Cost Containment and other Public Policy Analyses.  

Barden, R. C., Kinscherff, R., George, W., Flyer, R., Seidel, J., & Henderson, D., (1993), Emergency Medical Care and Injury Prevention Systems for Children:  An Economic-Medical-Legal-Psychological Analysis and Legislative Proposals, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 30, No. 2, pgs 461497.  

Barden, R. C., Jackson, B. H. and Ford, M.E. (1992), Optimal Performance in Tennis:  Mental Skills for Maximum Achievement in Athletics and Life.  Optimal Performance Systems Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Duckworth, K., Kahn, M. & Barden, R. C., (1992), Mental Disability Law  A Student Handbook. Educational manual for use at the Harvard Law School  Harvard Medical School Clinical Practicum. 

Barden, R. C., (1990), Optimal Performance in Law:  Maximizing Achievement in Law School Through Mental Training.  Optimal Performance Systems Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

This book was the result of a series of invited lectures at the Harvard Law School.  The program was made possible by a grant from the Office of the Dean of Students and advice/assistance from the members of the Harvard Law School faculty with special thanks to Prof. Alan A. Stone, Prof. Albert Sacks, Prof. Kathleen Sullivan, Prof. Stephen G. Breyer, Dean Sarah Wald and Harvard Law School Alumni Assoc. Executive Director Victor Koivumaki, III.  

Barden, R. C., (1990), The Effects of Craniofacial Deformity, Chronic Illness, and Physical Handicaps on Patient and Familial Adjustment:  Research and Clinical Perspectives. In B. Lahey and A. Kazdin, Eds. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, Vol. 13, Plenum Press. 

Rogers-Salyer, M., Barden, R. C., & Kuczaj, S., (1990), Psychosocial issues in the management of cleft lip and palate families. In J. Bardach (Ed) The Multidisciplinary Management of Cleft Lip and Palate, Saunders:  Philadelphia.

Barden, R. C., (1990), Clinical management of the child with a cleft palate. In Green, M. and Haggerty, R. J. (Eds.) Ambulatory Pediatrics. 5th Edition, Harcort, Brace, and Jovanovich, Inc. 

Barden, R. C., Ford, M. E., Jensen, G. A., Rogers, M., & Salyer, K. E., (1989), Effects of craniofacial deformity in infancy on mother infant interactions.  Child Development, 60, 819 824.    Barden, R. C., Ford, M. E., Wilhelm, W. M., Rogers Salyer, M. & Salyer, K. E., (1988), Emotional and behavioral reactions to facially deformed patients before and after craniofacial surgery, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Vol. 82, No. 3, 409416.  

Barden, R. C., Ford, M. E., Wilhelm, W. M., Rogers Salyer, M. &  Salyer, K. E., (1988), The physical attractiveness of facially deformed patients before and after craniofacial surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vol. 82, No. 2, 229235.

Zelko, F., Duncan, S. W., Barden, R. C., Garber, J., & Masters, J. C., (1986), Implicit theories of affect:  Adult's predictions of children's affective responses, Developmental Psychology, Vol. 22, No. 1, 109114.

Barden, R. C., and members of the National Craniofacial Center, Craniofacial Deformities: Helping Parents to Understand, F.C.D. Publications, 1986.

Barden, R. C. and members of the National Craniofacial Center  The Craniofacial Team:  An Educational Film, F.C.D., Publications, 1986.

Barden, R. C., Garber, J., Leiman, B., Ford, M. E., & Masters, J. C., (1985), Factors governing the effective remediation of negative emotion and its cognitive and behavioral consequences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 49., No. 4, 10401053.

Felleman, E., Barden, R. C., Carlson, C. R., Rosenberg, L., & Masters, J. C. (1983).  Children's and Adult's Recognition of Spontaneous and Posed Emotional Expressions in Young Children.  Developmental Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 3, 405413.

Barden, R. C., Garber, J., Duncan, S. W., & Masters, J. C., (1981), Cumulative effects of induced emotional states:  Insulation, remediation, and accentuation, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 4, 750760.

Masters, J. C., Felleman, E., & Barden, R. C., (1981), Experimental studies of emotional states in children, Advances in Child Clinical Psychology, B. Lahey and A. Kazdin (Eds.), Vol. 4, Plenum Press.

Barden, R. C., Zelko, F. J., Duncan, S. W., & Masters, J. C., (1980), Children's beliefs regarding the experiential determinants of emotion, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 968 976.

Masters, J. C., Barden, R. C., & Ford, M. E., (1979), Emotional states, expressive behavior, and learning in children, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 380390.

Masters, J. C., Furman, W., & Barden, R. C., (1977), Effects of achievement standards, tangible rewards, and self dispensed achievement evaluations on children's task mastery, Child Development, 48, 217224.

External links

• "Barden Launches Campaign for Attorney General" MN Democrats Exposed 4/28/2010
• "Chris Barden challenges Lori Swanson for Attorney General post" City Pages 4/28/2010
• Resume: R. Christopher Barden