Critical Perspectives in Mental Health Annual Conference
The School Of Applied Social Studies, the Catherine McAuley School Of Nursing and Midwifery and Critical Voices Network Ireland are pleased to announce the 3rd annual critical perspectives conference, entitled ‘Medicating Human Distress: Concerns, Critiques And Solutions’, which will be held on 16 And 17 November 2011, University College Cork, Ireland. The conference will focus on the overreliance on medication as the dominant response to distress in mental health care, on medication withdrawal concerns, strategies and solutions, and on creative and enabling non-medicated ways of working. Key speakers have been confirmed. The organisers are now inviting people to submit abstracts for workshop presentations.
This two-day conference is unique as it is free for all participants and involves people from diverse backgrounds (self experience, survivors, professionals, academics, carers) presenting, discussing and debating critical and creative perspectives on and beyond the dominant bio-medical approach. Last year’s conference saw the launch of the Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI), a network of people interested in considering and developing responses to human distress, which are creative, enabling, respectful and firmly grounded in human rights. The conference will include an open forum to discuss the ongoing work of the CVNI.
Call for Workshop Presentations:
We are now inviting workshop presenters to submit an abstract (in Word) of 250 words max, broadly related to the conference focus, outlining the aims of and intentions for the workshop. keynote addresses and workshop presentations are of 45 minutes’ duration. The deadline for abstract submission is 16 September 2010. The conference programme and registration details will follow. Please email abstracts to l.sapouna@ucc.ie. Queries to h.gijbels@ucc.ie or l.sapouna@ucc.ie. We look forward to hear from you.
The Conference organisers are Harry Gijbels, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.
We are now inviting workshop presenters to submit an abstract (in Word) of 250 words max, broadly related to the conference focus, outlining the aims of and intentions for the workshop. keynote addresses and workshop presentations are of 45 minutes’ duration. The deadline for abstract submission is 16 September 2010. The conference programme and registration details will follow. Please email abstracts to l.sapouna@ucc.ie. Queries to h.gijbels@ucc.ie or l.sapouna@ucc.ie. We look forward to hear from you.
The Conference organisers are Harry Gijbels, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Jacqui Dillon (who will give the opening address) Writer, national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network, Director of Intervoice, Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of East London, voice hearer, author of Experiencing Psychosis, England
- Anna Emmanouilidou: Clinical Psychologist, PhD, MsC, Hellenic Mental Health and Research Centre, Greek Observatory for human rights in the mental health field, Greece
- Peter Lehmann: Publisher, author of Coming off psychiatric drugs and Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry, social scientist, Honorary Doctor (Thessaloniki, Greece), survivor of psychiatry, Germany
- Eleanor Longden: Voice hearer, PhD research student, coordinator of the Intervoice Scientific Committee, England
- Terry Lynch: Medical doctor and psychotherapist, specialist in mental health Recovery, author of Selfhood, Beyond Prozac, and the forthcoming Mental Wellness Book Series, Ireland
- Sami Timimi: Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Visiting Professor, University of Lincoln, founder of the International Critical Psychiatry Network and of the 'No More Psychiatric Labels' Campaign, author of A Straight-talking Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems, England
