Medicating Human Distress
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Medicating Human Distress
11.11.2011

A two-day conference, titled "Medicating Human Distress: Concerns, Critiques and Solutions", organised by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC and the Critical Voices Network Ireland will take place on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 November from 9.00 – 5.00 each day in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.

Following on from last year’s successful mental health conference in UCC, this year’s conference will address and consider:

There will be three keynote speakers each day followed by a series of concurrent workshops.

The keynote speakers on Wednesday are Peter Lehmann (publisher, social scientist, survivor of psychiatry Germany); Kate Crawford (voice hearer, service survivor, group facilitator and trainer, National Paranoia Network & Hearing Voices Network England); Anna Emmanouelidou (Clinical Psychologist, Hellenic Mental Health and Research Centre, Greek Observatory for human rights in the mental health field, Greece). 

On Thursday, the keynote speakers are Terry Lynch (Medical doctor and psychotherapist,  author of Selfhood and Beyond Prozac, Ireland); Sami Timimi (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, 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); Rachel Waddingham (Voice hearer, London Hearing Voices Project Manager, English Hearing Voices Network trustee, member of Intervoice's International Research Committee, England)

A further forty four contributors from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Netherlands and Germany, many with self-experience of distress will host the workshops.

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 afternoon the second day has been set aside to discuss the on-going work of the CVNI.

Visit:   http://www.ucc.ie/en/appsoc/Conference-Programme.pdf

Please note that the conference is now fully booked

 



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