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Critical perspectives in mental health seminar series (Feb-April 2022)
Over the next few months, the ISS21 Disability and Mental Health Research Cluster will host a series of four seminars on critical mental health matters, in partnership with Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI). Seminar titles and dates are provided below, with further details and registration to follow.
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Title: 'Yes, but where do you really come from? "Race", racism and mental health – Messages from the racialised others' Presenter: Sonia Thompson, Co-Director of the Survivor Researcher Network, UK. Date: 15 February 2022 from 6.00 – 8.00 pm The seminar, co-hosted by ISS21 and CVNI in partnership with the Survivor Researcher Network (SRN) and Asylum Magazine, UK, will critically explore how racism affects the mental health of racialised people. Register at: |
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Title: ‘Can you help me get out?’: Ethical, political and methodological struggles in doing survivor research in mental health' Presenter: Konstantina (Dina) Poursanidou, independent Service User Researcher in mental health; Co-Director of the Survivor Researcher Network, UK; member editorial group of Asylum Magazine, UK. Date: 15 March 2022 from 1.00 – 3.00 pm In this seminar, co-hosted by ISS21 and CVNI in partnership with SRN and Asylum Magazine, I will seek to throw light on the unremitting identity and other (ethical, political and methodological) struggles implicated in the task of constructing and negotiating my double identity as an academic researcher and a mental health service user. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-you-help-me-get-out-struggles-in-doing-survivor-research-tickets-272077600427 |
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Title: ‘And the activists tell us that meds are evil’: Polarised mental health politics and the struggle for ambivalence' Presenter: Konstantina (Dina) Poursanidou, independent Service User Researcher in mental health; Co-Director of the Survivor Researcher Network, UK; member editorial group of Asylum Magazine, UK. Date: 22 March 2022 from 1.00 – 3.00 pm This seminar, co-hosted by ISS21 and CVNI in partnership with the SRN and Asylum Magazine, will seek to critically discuss why is it essential to listen to and value ambivalent (contradictory) views, emotions, and attitudes when it comes to acutely contested issues in mental health and what an ambivalent stance towards contested issues in mental health involve in the current political/economic and policy context of mental health care in the UK. |
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Title: 'First Do No Harm: Iatrogenic Harm in Mental Health' Presenter: Jacqui Dillon, activist, author, speaker, who lectures and publishes worldwide on trauma, abuse, hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation, and healing. Date: 26 April 2022 from 1.00 -3.00 pm Iatrogenic harm refers to the injury, either physical or psychological, caused inadvertently by the process of treatment. This seminar, co-hosted by ISS21 and CVNI, will explore the phenomena of iatrogenic harm: what is it, how is it caused what can be done about it. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/first-do-no-harm-iatrogenic-harm-in-mental-health-jacqui-dillon-tickets-272446955177 |
The Onlinevents team will provide the online platform and support for the seminars/workshops. Please note that, as with all CVNI organised events, there is a minimal £1 donation per seminar/workshop to cover the online costs. Students can use the promo code "student" so they can register for free.
For more on this story contact:
Dr Margaret Scanlon, ISS21 Research Coordinator, (m.scanlon@ucc.ie)