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 March 2021

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March 1, 2021
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March 3, 2021(1 event)

Rights, Informed Consent, and How to Protect Ourselves

Rights, Informed Consent, and How to Protect Ourselves


March 3, 2021

The topic of rights and informed consent is important because many individuals today are being subjected to harmful psychiatric interventions not of their own choosing, either in psychiatric facilities or in the community. They are not given choices or alternatives. Many are under court-ordered ‘treatment’ and they risk going back to the hospital or even jail if they do not comply. Others are at risk of losing important social supports if they are not ‘treatment compliant.’ Join us to discuss the important things we can do to protect our rights today and in the future. (Applicable information to anyone exposed to coerced treatment.)

Three presenters will share how their lives were impacted by lack of choices in the mental health system and how this discovery led them to their current life’s work which is to promote human rights in the mental health system.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 6:00 EST

Pre-registration is required.

To register, click HERE - takes you to Eventbrite

Facilitator: Susan Musante MS, LPCC. Susan was the founding director of Soteria-Alaska, a model proven to be a highly effective alternative to hospitalization for newly diagnosed people, and of CHOICES an alternative to conventional community mental health services directed and provided primarily by people who themselves have a “lived experience” with recovery. She is a leader, educator and advocate for the development of voluntary, informed, compassionate supports and services that work. She has worked in universities, community-based centers and consumer-run services. She has educated peer practitioners and masters level practitioners. Currently she is involved in advocacy and development projects as a contracted consultant. Her commitment is to respect the “lived experience” and support recovery.

Presenters:
Jim Gottstein. Jim is the author of The Zyprexa Papers and founder of PsychRights whose mission is to mount a strategic litigation campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock.

Ron Bassman. Ron is a Psychiatric Survivor who was twice hospitalized for schizophrenia, later earned his PhD in psychology and is currently the Executive Director of MindFreedom International.

Sarah Smith. Sarah is currently a staff member of MindFreedom International and is one of the founding members of Rethinking Psychiatry. Previously, she served as the Development Director for Catholic Community Services and as a Development professional for a host of other non-profit organizations, including Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, Returning Veterans Project, and Community Supported Shelters. She is the mother of a psychiatric survivor.

Rights, Informed Consent, and How to Protect Ourselves

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March 12, 2021(1 event)

Mad in America Town Hall: Exploring the Science of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

Mad in America Town Hall: Exploring the Science of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

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March 12, 2021

Mad in America, the Council for Evidence- based Psychiatry and the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal are pleased to announce a series of live, online town hall discussions focussing on issues related to psychiatric drug withdrawal. Each town hall will feature a panel comprised of a mix of professionals and people with lived experience. Following the discussion, there will be an opportunity for viewer questions.

For our second discussion, we are asking what science and research can tell us about the experience of withdrawal. We will discuss research effort that has called into question long- held professional beliefs about the effects of psychotropic drugs on the brain and nervous system.

Join us on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 8 AM PT, 11 AM ET, 4 PM GMT, 5 PM CET for a panel discussion that will include questions and comments from the audience. Please note that a minimum donation of $1 applies to register. We will email you a Zoom link on the day. Registration for the live Zoom is limited; we will also live-stream on Mad in America’s Facebook page and post to YouTube afterwards.

Panelists

Giovanni Fava

Peter Groot

Mark Horowitz

Joanna Moncrieff

Mad in America Town Hall: Exploring the Science of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

March 13, 2021
March 14, 2021(2 events)

Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality virtual book launch

Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality virtual book launch


March 14, 2021

To purchase the book: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Psychology-Praxis-Psychosocial-Non-Alignment-to-ModernityColoniality/Beshara/p/book/9780367634636

Book Description

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment to modernity/coloniality.

Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality virtual book launch

Of Unsound Mind's 'Mental Health in Crisis' talk series: Is an Anti-Colonial Psychiatry Possible? Frantz Fanon, Race, and Mental Health

Of Unsound Mind's 'Mental Health in Crisis' talk series: Is an Anti-Colonial Psychiatry Possible? Frantz Fanon, Race, and Mental Health


March 14, 2021

4 PM to 6 PM Central

'Mental Health in Crisis' is a series of talks and discussions on the history of radical transformations and projects in the history of mental health care. Each session will consist of a talk portion presenting a major theme or project from the past and a discussion portion in which participants can discuss what is still relevant and useful today. The sessions will take place on Zoom every other Sunday from 4 PM Central to 6 PM Central.
3.14.21 Is an Anti-Colonial Psychiatry Possible? Frantz Fanon, Race, and Mental Health.
3.28.21 The Asylum is Sick: The Mental Institution from Medical Prison to Laboratory for Change
4.11.21 Psychiatry Negated: Conflict and the Culture of Resistance in Italy and Brazil
4.25.21 The Dream of the Outside: Deinstitutionalization, Antipsychiatry, and the Move into the “Community”
5.9.21 Unreason Speaks! Challenges and Alternatives from Patients in the History of Psychiatry
5.23.21 Our Distress is a Weapon: Organization and Tactics in the Struggle for Mental Wellness
Follow Of Unsound Mind on Facebook (facebook.com/ofunsound), follow Sasha on Twitter (twitter.com/sashadurakov), or email [email protected] for information on how to join our Zoom.

Of Unsound Mind's 'Mental Health in Crisis' talk series: Is an Anti-Colonial Psychiatry Possible? Frantz Fanon, Race, and Mental Health

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March 28, 2021(1 event)

Of Unsound Mind's 'Mental Health in Crisis' talk series: The Asylum is Sick: The Mental Institution from Medical Prison to Laboratory for Change

Of Unsound Mind's 'Mental Health in Crisis' talk series: The Asylum is Sick: The Mental Institution from Medical Prison to Laboratory for Change


March 28, 2021

4 PM to 6 PM Central

'Mental Health in Crisis' is a series of talks and discussions on the history of radical transformations and projects in the history of mental health care. Each session will consist of a talk portion presenting a major theme or project from the past and a discussion portion in which participants can discuss what is still relevant and useful today. The sessions will take place on Zoom every other Sunday from 4 PM Central to 6 PM Central.

3.14.21 Is an Anti-Colonial Psychiatry Possible? Frantz Fanon, Race, and Mental Health.

3.28.21 The Asylum is Sick: The Mental Institution from Medical Prison to Laboratory for Change

4.11.21 Psychiatry Negated: Conflict and the Culture of Resistance in Italy and Brazil

4.25.21 The Dream of the Outside: Deinstitutionalization, Antipsychiatry, and the Move into the “Community”

5.9.21 Unreason Speaks! Challenges and Alternatives from Patients in the History of Psychiatry

5.23.21 Our Distress is a Weapon: Organization and Tactics in the Struggle for Mental Wellness

Follow Of Unsound Mind on Facebook (facebook.com/ofunsound), follow Sasha on Twitter (twitter.com/sashadurakov), or email [email protected] for information on how to join our Zoom.

Of Unsound Mind's 'Mental Health in Crisis' talk series: The Asylum is Sick: The Mental Institution from Medical Prison to Laboratory for Change

March 29, 2021
March 30, 2021(1 event)

Madness Network News CALL FOR WRITING AND ART: SUBMISSIONS DUE

Madness Network News CALL FOR WRITING AND ART: SUBMISSIONS DUE

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March 30, 2021

Madness Network News is looking for writing and art submissions from psychiatric survivors, mad people, inmates and ex-inmates.

Personal stories, poetry, critical opinion pieces and art pieces on topics related to psychiatric abolition, madness, altered states, emotional distress. Ideally, writings would be a maximum of 500 words.

All submissions needed by March 30!

Please send submissions to [email protected].

Writers and artists can be anonymous and/or use a pseudonym. Bio and photo of writer optional.

Madness Network News CALL FOR WRITING AND ART: SUBMISSIONS DUE

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