CALENDAR OF EVENTS

A curated listing of international critical psychology conferences and events. Email us at [email protected] if you’d like to suggest an event.

Events in February 2025

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January 27, 2025(1 event)

Introducing the Mad Studies Reader


January 27, 2025

“Mad Studies” is an emerging interdisciplinary collaboration for transforming how we approach mental health and wellbeing. Mad studies centers the perspective of lived experience and it brings together activists, artists, concerned clinicians, and critical disability scholars. It uses these differing perspectives to liberate us from rigid categories, from single vision framings, and from the sanist prejudice. Mad studies, at its heart, realigns who gets to contribute to the conversation, research, and practice around mental difference.

This panel, moderated by Neil Gong, brings together the three editors of the recently released Mad Studies Reader, Jazmine Russell, Alisha Ali, and Bradley Lewis, to celebrate and nurture this emergent work and the community it fosters.

This event is co-sponsored by NYU Center for Disability Studies.

Please note that zoom link will be sent 24 hours before the event.

Panelists

Alisha Ali: Alisha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University where she heads the Advocacy and Community-Based Trauma Studies (ACTS) Lab. Her research examines the mental health effects of various forms of oppression.

Jazmine Russell: Jazmine is the co-founder of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, a transformative mental health educator, trauma survivor, and host of Depth Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of Mad Studies, Critical Psychology, and Neuroscience, and a postgraduate student at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain.

Bradley Lewis: Brad is a psychotherapist/psychiatrist and a humanities professor at New York University. He is devoted to enriching everyday life and clinical practice through integration with the arts, humanities, and cultural/political/religious study.

Neil Gong: Neil is an assistant professor of sociology at UC San Diego, where he researches psychiatric services, homelessness, and how communities seek to maintain social order. His recent book, Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics, examines inequality in mental health care by comparing public safety net and elite private psychiatric programs.
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February 7, 2025(1 event)

Mental Health as a Basic Human Right and the Interference of Commercialized Science


February 7, 2025

Time: 1PM (GMT) / 8AM (EDT)

Various forces have aligned over the past 50 years to redefine sadness and depressed mood, from a multifactorial maladaptation to one’s surroundings to a homogeneous disease primarily treated with medication. This dominance of the medical model and the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on psychiatry have led to an over-emphasis on intra-individual solutions with a resultant under-appreciation for the social and psychosocial determinants of health and the need for population-based health promotion. The presentation will illustrate how commercialized science—the use of science primarily to meet industry needs—deflects attention away from the sociopolitical determinants of health, and will offer solutions for reform.

Doctor Shaughnessy received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and his Masters in Medical Education from the University of Dundee. He has completed a faculty development fellowship and the Department of Health and Human Services Primary Care Health Policy Fellowship. He has edited several books and published over 200 papers in the areas of family medical education, continuing medical education, evidence-based medicine, pharmacology, prescription writing, and medical information management. His long-term research interest has been on how the pharmaceutical industry adversely affects physician prescribing patterns and ultimately affects patient health.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session with members of the audience and proceedings will conclude by 2 pm GMT / 9 am EDT.

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February 16, 2025(1 event)

Global Solidarity for Liberatory Care


February 16, 2025

Amid rising authoritarianism and the erosion of human rights, mad and disabled communities face increasing risks to their freedoms, with self-determined care often sacrificed to political agendas and harmful biomedical models. In these times, it’s essential for care workers, activists, and organizers to look to global movements that advocate for the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities to shape their own care. Cross-border solidarity is key to challenging punitive mental health models.

Join IDHA on Sunday, February 16 from 1-3 pm EST, for a panel of activists, clinicians, and advocates committed to shifting the global mental health paradigm. Panelists will discuss the challenges we face and strategies for systemic change, drawing on their local examples of transformative mental health care. This event highlights the importance of global solidarity in advancing mental health practices that prioritize rights, dignity, autonomy, and choice.

This event is part of an ongoing talk series inspired by IDHA’s Transformative Mental Health Core Curriculum. It features curriculum faculty and collaborators and dives into timely topics that intersect with our transformative mental health lens.

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February 22, 2025(1 event)

The Case For Soteria: Past, Present and Future


February 22, 2025

Evidence shows that Soteria houses are a more effective treatment for psychosis than conventional treatment—yet there is only one in the United States, which has been operating successfully in Burlington, VT for 9 years.

In this webinar, panelists from Soteria Vermont and other ongoing Soteria projects will describe the Soteria approach to treatment and what makes it so effective. They will also recount the history of Soteria houses and share details about Soteria Vermont, the formerly operating Soteria Alaska, and current efforts to create Soteria Las Cruces. Finally, panelists will discuss what it will take to expand the availability of Soteria houses in the US and make this option a possibility for all.

 

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