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.
The week's events
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Searching for Reasons to Live: Having Supportive Conversations About Suicide – Massachusetts Youth Workshop
Searching for Reasons to Live: Having Supportive Conversations About Suicide – Massachusetts Youth Workshop
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October 4, 2022MIA Online Parent Support Group: US/CanadaMIA Online Parent Support Group: US/Canada
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October 4, 2022Time: Weekly, Tuesdays from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, U.S. Mountain time (5:00 pm Pacific, 7:00 pm Central, 8:00 pm Eastern). Next meeting: June 21, 2022
A space where families can exchange information and share experiences to foster a dialogue that goes beyond the predominant mainstream medical treatment model. Welcome! This Mad in America (MIA) forum hosts online parent support groups. We have started these groups in response to the many inquiries we get from parents who are skeptical of conventional drug-based treatments for children struggling with mental health issues and are now looking for alternatives. We currently offer two groups—one in Europe and one in the United States/Canada; all are conducted in English. This initiative, begun in the fall of 2018, has generated strong interest, and we hope to accommodate as many people as possible. Therefore, the U.S./Canada group now operates on a weekly, drop-in basis, as your schedules and needs allow.
The support groups, which last 90 minutes, are moderated and provide a confidential space where people can share information and experiences that foster a dialogue about psychiatric diagnosis, the use of psychiatric medications, and non-drug alternatives. We hope these groups will help parents and other family members to feel less alone as they struggle to best help the children in their lives. Everyone in the group has the opportunity to speak, and everyone is expected to be respectful of others. The moderators occasionally invite guest speakers to the meetings. Although MIA is hosting these forums, the moderators do not represent MIA. Their opinions and suggestions are their own.
Please write to me with any questions you may have about the support groups. You may also want to visit our Family Resources section, which provides information about drugs, blogs written by both professionals and parents, Q&As, research news, and other informational links. To sign up for a support group, please click “sign up here” at the bottom of the page and then complete the form. –Miranda Spencer, Parent Resources Editor
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Georgetown University Hapi Hour Seminars: "Why They Blow the Whistle" with Carl Elliott MD, PhD
Georgetown University Hapi Hour Seminars: "Why They Blow the Whistle" with Carl Elliott MD, PhD
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October 5, 202212:00-1:30 PM ET
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Hapi Hour Seminars: Carl Elliott MD, PhD, "Why They Blow the Whistle"
Carl Elliott MD, PhD is a professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Philosophy. He is the author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, and Lonesome Whistle: Exposing Wrongdoing in Medical Research. Dr. Elliott will discuss the topic of whistleblowing.
This seminar is part of a public seminar series for the Health and the Public Interest (HAPI) MS program at Georgetown University, co-directed by Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman and Dr. Adam Myers. The HAPI program aims to train effective public health advocates, and the seminar series brings students, faculty, and the community together to engage with key leaders in health care research, policy, and advocacy.
We hope you will join us Wednesday, 10/5 at 12PM ET. -
A Disorder 4 Everyone: Existential Therapy: A Non-Pathologizing Way of Supporting People
A Disorder 4 Everyone: Existential Therapy: A Non-Pathologizing Way of Supporting People
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October 6, 202210:00am-12:30pm BST
In this AD4E online workshop Prof Emmy van Deurzen will introduce existential therapy and its long tradition of anti-labelling. She will show some of the different ways in which the existential tradition has tackled problems in living without medicalising people’s issues, introducing contributions from Binswanger, Jaspers, Sartre, Laingand Szasz. Alongside this formal content, with its many inspirational ideas, there will be ample time to consider practical applications and illustrations and to discuss the ideas in group discussion.
This workshop is aimed at counsellors and pschotherapists but is open to anyone who has an interest in non pathologizing ways of supporting people.
CPD certificates available on request.
Emmy's Bio
Emmy is a philosopher, counselling psychologist and existential therapist, who has worked with people on transformative life experiences for 49 years. She is a visiting professor in psychology and psychotherapy with Middlesex University and is the founder Director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the Existential Academy, in London.
She is a fellow of the British Psychological Society, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and an Honorary Life Member of the European Association for Psychotherapy, the Federation of Existential Therapists in Europe and the Society for Existential Analysis.
Emmy has published eighteen books, and amongst these her classic books Everyday Mysteries and Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy in Practice are the most relevant for this workshop. She is currently completing a book on the Existential Art of Freedom for Penguin Books.