Events in March 2017

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February 27, 2017
February 28, 2017
March 1, 2017(1 event)

Safe with Self-Injury: A Public Lecture and Book Launch for National Self-Injury Awareness Day

Safe with Self-Injury: A Public Lecture and Book Launch for National Self-Injury Awareness Day


March 1, 2017

When: Wednesday, 1st March 2017, 6:30 pm

Where: The Old Theatre, The Old Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE

 

User-led Online Peer Support – Shallow, Deep & Vital

Wedge, founder of LifeSIGNS: Self-Injury Guidance & Network Support

This presentation will explore the development of online peer-support and the ways in which the rise of social networks have impacted on it, highlighting the importance of self-expression and being heard.

www.lifesigns.org.uk @LifeSIGNS

 

The Impact of Alcohol on Self-harm

Conor McCafferty, Business Director and psychotherapist, Zest, Northern Ireland, Chair of the Northern Ireland Suicide Strategy Implementation Body.

Noella McConnellogue, Clinical Director and psychotherapist, Zest, Northern Ireland.

This presentation will examine the relationship between alcohol (mis)use and self-injury with reference to the impact of alcohol on emotional and physical well-being.

www.zestni.org

 

Self-Injury Essentials: Social Justice, Embodiment & Harm-Reduction

Kay Inckle, Department of Sociology, LSE

This presentation will draw from the book Safe with Self-Injury, and focus on three essential requirements for understanding and responding helpfully to self-injury: social justice, embodiment and harm-reduction.

 

Ticket price: Admission is free but please pre-register for the event by emailing: [email protected]

Click here to purchase tickets

Safe with Self-Injury: A Public Lecture and Book Launch for National Self-Injury Awareness Day

March 2, 2017
March 3, 2017(2 events)

Building Bridges Conference

Building Bridges Conference


March 3, 2017

Building Bridges is a student-led organization and conference at Gustavus Adolphus College that focuses on educating and informing community members on issues relating to social justice, diversity, equity, inclusion, and intersectionality. The conference aims to educate the community through keynote speakers, a series of workshops and an interactive action piece. Past topics have included: grassroots movements, (2017), the war on drugs (2016), rape culture (2015), environmental justice (2014), and mass incarceration (2013).

This year’s conference themes is Mental Health: Exploring The Unacknowledged Civil Rights Journey. With this topic, we seek to explore and dismantle the stigma behind mental illness and discuss accessibility to quality mental health care in disadvantaged communities.

We are excited to welcome our keynote speakers, Leah Ida Harris, a mental health and trauma activist and Deborah Prothrow a public health leader for equal access to mental health care. Leah Ida Harris has been working to stop the perpetuation of harmful and traumatic practises in mental health. Her approach emphasizes the importance of people retaining dignity and the right to self determination. Deborah Prothrow-Stith focuses on disparities in access to care for racial minorities. She is an internationally recognized public health leader who since 2008 has advised top tier healthcare, life sciences, academic and not for profit institutions. She established the first Office of Violence Prevention in a state department of public health.

We look forward to seeing you at this year’s Building Bridges Conference, which will take place on March 3rd in Christ Chapel! Doors open at 9:00am!

Quinn Andersen and Liz Toeben, Building Bridges Co-Chairs

Building Bridges Conference

March 4, 2017
March 5, 2017
March 6, 2017(1 event)

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Tomlinson Centre

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Tomlinson Centre


March 6, 2017

Over the past three years there has been significant development of the Open Dialogue approach from Western Lapland in the NHS and in public mental health services internationally. Open Dialogue UK has been working for the past four years to further this development, and 10 trusts are now represented on one of their two training programmes (largely teams from Early Intervention in Psychosis and Crisis/Home Treatment services).

Over the course of 6 days in March 2017, a variety of NHS professionals, along with Nick Putman, founder of Open Dialogue UK, will be travelling across the UK to introduce the work that they are doing to develop the Open Dialogue approach. All of these practitioners are participating in one of the Open Dialogue UK training programmes. The following professions will be represented at this event, either in person, or via video footage: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, nursing, social work and peer support.

The seminar will serve as an introduction to the Open Dialogue approach, the work that is being done in the NHS, and the trainings that are underpinning these developments. They are being run at a low cost in the hope that everyone who wishes to attend will be able to. 

See the following website for further details: http://opendialoguenhs.com or email [email protected] or telephone 020 8133 3441.

More details on the next Open Dialogue UK foundation training (starting in June 2017) and full three year training (starting in September 2017) can be found here: http://opendialogueapproach.co.uk/training/

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Tomlinson Centre

March 7, 2017(1 event)
March 8, 2017(2 events)

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Duncan Macmillan House

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Duncan Macmillan House


March 8, 2017

Over the past three years there has been significant development of the Open Dialogue approach from Western Lapland in the NHS and in public mental health services internationally. Open Dialogue UK has been working for the past four years to further this development, and 10 trusts are now represented on one of their two training programmes (largely teams from Early Intervention in Psychosis and Crisis/Home Treatment services).

Over the course of 6 days in March 2017, a variety of NHS professionals, along with Nick Putman, founder of Open Dialogue UK, will be travelling across the UK to introduce the work that they are doing to develop the Open Dialogue approach. All of these practitioners are participating in one of the Open Dialogue UK training programmes. The following professions will be represented at this event, either in person, or via video footage: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, nursing, social work and peer support.

The seminar will serve as an introduction to the Open Dialogue approach, the work that is being done in the NHS, and the trainings that are underpinning these developments. They are being run at a low cost in the hope that everyone who wishes to attend will be able to. 

See the following website for further details: http://opendialoguenhs.com or email [email protected] or telephone 020 8133 3441.

More details on the next Open Dialogue UK foundation training (starting in June 2017) and full three year training (starting in September 2017) can be found here: http://opendialogueapproach.co.uk/training/

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Duncan Macmillan House

March 9, 2017(1 event)

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Quaker Meeting House

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Quaker Meeting House


March 9, 2017

Over the past three years there has been significant development of the Open Dialogue approach from Western Lapland in the NHS and in public mental health services internationally. Open Dialogue UK has been working for the past four years to further this development, and 10 trusts are now represented on one of their two training programmes (largely teams from Early Intervention in Psychosis and Crisis/Home Treatment services).

Over the course of 6 days in March 2017, a variety of NHS professionals, along with Nick Putman, founder of Open Dialogue UK, will be travelling across the UK to introduce the work that they are doing to develop the Open Dialogue approach. All of these practitioners are participating in one of the Open Dialogue UK training programmes. The following professions will be represented at this event, either in person, or via video footage: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, nursing, social work and peer support.

The seminar will serve as an introduction to the Open Dialogue approach, the work that is being done in the NHS, and the trainings that are underpinning these developments. They are being run at a low cost in the hope that everyone who wishes to attend will be able to.

See the following website for further details: http://opendialoguenhs.com or email [email protected] or telephone 020 8133 3441.

More details on the next Open Dialogue UK foundation training (starting in June 2017) and full three year training (starting in September 2017) can be found here: http://opendialogueapproach.co.uk/training/

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Quaker Meeting House

March 10, 2017(2 events)

"A Disorder for Everyone!" - Exploring the culture of psychiatric diagnosis, creating change

"A Disorder for Everyone!" - Exploring the culture of psychiatric diagnosis, creating change


March 10, 2017

This one day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is for everyone who is interested in the current debates around mental health. It aims to attract psychologists, counsellors, service users, psychotherapists, mental health support professionals, psychiatrists, people with lived experience, managers and individuals with a personal interest.

Facilitated by Dr Lucy Johnstone, Jo Watson & Jo McFarlane. It is a chance to discuss the critical questions of the day around the biomedical model in mental health.

Lucy Johnstone will summarise current debates and controversies about psychiatric diagnosis. It is increasingly acknowledged, even within the mental health establishment, that categories like 'schizophrenia', 'bipolar disorder' and 'personality disorder' lack validity. The assumption that distress is best understood as disease can have very serious consequences for the individual, their identity, and their path to recovery. Lucy will present alternatives to diagnosis which can help clients to make sense of experiences of distress, however extreme, and which are based on working together to explore personal meaning.

 

About Lucy

Dr Lucy Johnstone is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of biomedical model psychiatry. She has worked in adult mental health settings for many years, alternating with academic posts. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate, a highly regarded course which was based on a critical, politically-aware and service-user informed philosophy, along with an emphasis on personal development.

Lucy has authored a number of books, (including 'Users and Abusers of Psychiatry, 2nd edn 2000) articles and chapters on topics such as psychiatric diagnosis, formulation, the psychological effects of ECT, and the role of trauma in breakdown.

Lucy was a contributor to the Division of Clinical Psychology 'Position Statement on Classification' 2013. She is currently convening a group of leading UK clinical psychologists and mental health experts who are working to develop an evidence-based and conceptually coherent alternative to the current diagnostic systems.

Her new book, A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis, is available via the link below

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1906254664/

https://www.madinamerica.com/author/ljohnstone/

Twitter - @ClinpsychLucy

 

 

About Jo

Jo Watson is a psychotherapist, trainer and activist with a professional history the rape crisis movement of the 1990's. She has worked therapeutically for the last 20 years with people who have experienced trauma. Jo actively challenges the biomedical model in mental health both inside and outside of her work and links distress and mental ill health to psycho-social causes. (Trauma, oppression, lack of positive attachment etc)

Jo believes that in many cases the identification with a ‘diagnosis’ is damaging and counterproductive to a satisfactory healing process and that alternative understandings should be offered.

Jo founded the facebook group 'Drop The Disorder' in September 2016 as a place where the issues surrounding the biomedical model can be discussed. Jo is orgainising and promoting "A Disorder For Everyone!" with Lucy which is presently making its way around the UK!

“For me at the very core of the therapeutic process is the telling of personal stories, the naming and acknowledgment of experience. It is, fundamentally a process of making sense of distress in a relationship that feels affirming, safe and containing. Why then are many counsellors and therapists seemingly accepting the movement towards labels and diagnosis that too often negate the experiences that clients have had. What impact is this having on therapeutic practice, on us as professionals and on the clients we work with? Surely this is a discussion that we need to have.” ( Jo )

www.jowatsonpsychotherapy.co.uk Twitter - @JWpsychotherapy

 

About Jo McFarlane

Jo is an Edinburgh based spoken word poet, activist and author. Jo has written exensively about her lived experience. Jo performs spoken word pieces and speaks about her experience of diagnosis.

Poet & activist Jo McFarlane opening the Birmingham event with a powerful spoken word performance....

 

This event was piloted in Birmigham in October 2016.

Click here to view photos and a slideshow of the amazing first event!

Read about how this event came about in Jo's article 'Get off the Sofa!'

What people said:

"The whole day has been a transformative experience. I have always been uncomfortable with labels but felt I had to go along with it. Now I feel empowered to offer the people I work with the option at least to explore alternative ways of understanding their pain." (Participant on Birmingham course)

"Lucy's straight forward, commonsense approach was just what I needed at the moment. Her message is simple: Listen to people, to their stories and help them make their own sense about their lives" (Participant on Birmingham course)

"I feel like I am at the beginning of an exciting and liberating journey. Thank you Lucy" (Participant on Birmingham course)

Read the full review by blogger and activist Nicky Hayward here.

Lucy Johnstone presenting the morning session...

 

Watch Lucy talking about the myth of chemical imbalance!

ADFE LJP3.mp4

 

The Venue

http://www.themeltingpotedinburgh.org.uk/

 

Refreshments are provided

All hours are valid CPD hours for BACP and UKCP (CPD Certificates will be issued by post on request after the event)

"A Disorder for Everyone!" - Exploring the culture of psychiatric diagnosis, creating change

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - St. Luke's

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - St. Luke's


March 10, 2017

Over the past three years there has been significant development of the Open Dialogue approach from Western Lapland in the NHS and in public mental health services internationally. Open Dialogue UK has been working for the past four years to further this development, and 10 trusts are now represented on one of their two training programmes (largely teams from Early Intervention in Psychosis and Crisis/Home Treatment services).

Over the course of 6 days in March 2017, a variety of NHS professionals, along with Nick Putman, founder of Open Dialogue UK, will be travelling across the UK to introduce the work that they are doing to develop the Open Dialogue approach. All of these practitioners are participating in one of the Open Dialogue UK training programmes. The following professions will be represented at this event, either in person, or via video footage: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, nursing, social work and peer support.

The seminar will serve as an introduction to the Open Dialogue approach, the work that is being done in the NHS, and the trainings that are underpinning these developments. They are being run at a low cost in the hope that everyone who wishes to attend will be able to.

See the following website for further details: http://opendialoguenhs.com or email [email protected] or telephone 020 8133 3441.

More details on the next Open Dialogue UK foundation training (starting in June 2017) and full three year training (starting in September 2017) can be found here: http://opendialogueapproach.co.uk/training/

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - St. Luke's

March 11, 2017(1 event)

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Grovepark Hall

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Grovepark Hall


March 11, 2017

Over the past three years there has been significant development of the Open Dialogue approach from Western Lapland in the NHS and in public mental health services internationally. Open Dialogue UK has been working for the past four years to further this development, and 10 trusts are now represented on one of their two training programmes (largely teams from Early Intervention in Psychosis and Crisis/Home Treatment services).

Over the course of 6 days in March 2017, a variety of NHS professionals, along with Nick Putman, founder of Open Dialogue UK, will be travelling across the UK to introduce the work that they are doing to develop the Open Dialogue approach. All of these practitioners are participating in one of the Open Dialogue UK training programmes. The following professions will be represented at this event, either in person, or via video footage: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, nursing, social work and peer support.

The seminar will serve as an introduction to the Open Dialogue approach, the work that is being done in the NHS, and the trainings that are underpinning these developments. They are being run at a low cost in the hope that everyone who wishes to attend will be able to.

'Open Dialogue in the NHS' Seminars - Grovepark Hall

March 12, 2017
March 13, 2017
March 14, 2017
March 15, 2017
March 16, 2017(1 event)

Open Dialogue with Mia Kurtti in Holyoke, MA

Open Dialogue with Mia Kurtti in Holyoke, MA


March 16, 2017

Learn about Open Dialogue from one of its leading practitioners. Open Dialogue offers an alternative to supporting people experiencing extreme emotional distress or ‘crisis’. It emphasizes dialogue directly with the person in distress along with others in their own social network, avoidance of talking about someone without them present, and a much broader way of making meaning of what is at the root of the struggle.

Open Dialogue is getting some of the best documented success rates in the world, including outcomes such as marked reductions in the use of psychotropic drugs, hospitalizations, and long term disability.

Mia is a psychotherapist and psychiatric nurse. She works in the acute crisis clinic in Keropudas Hospital in the western Lapland region of Finland. Extensively trained in Open Dialogue, Mia has been a member of the team that developed Open Dialogue since 2002. She was also featured in Daniel Mackler’s 2014 film ‘Open Dialogue’, now available at Youtube.com.

Free and open to the public. RSVP helpful but not required to [email protected]

Open Dialogue with Mia Kurtti in Holyoke, MA

March 17, 2017
March 18, 2017
March 19, 2017
March 20, 2017
March 21, 2017
March 22, 2017(1 event)
March 23, 2017(2 events)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

March 24, 2017(1 event)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

March 25, 2017(1 event)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

March 26, 2017(1 event)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

March 27, 2017(1 event)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

March 28, 2017(1 event)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

March 29, 2017(1 event)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

March 30, 2017(4 events)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Open Dialogue: Beyond "Mental Illness"

Open Dialogue: Beyond "Mental Illness"


March 30, 2017

Presented by the Holistic Mental Health Network

Our Mission: Our network envisions the greater Cincinnati area as a place where people can find support, resources, and help in times of mental health distress, without stigma and with hope for wholeness. We help raise awareness of the need for a whole person/whole community approach to mental health, beyond the brain disease model.

About our presenter:  Rebecca Hatton, PsyD, Licensed Psychologist worked in the public mental health system for 18 years with people managing the effects of trauma. She has been in independent practice specializing in psychosis since 2011. She has conducted workshops on recovery-related issues across Michigan since 2009. She has extensive psychosis-specific training, including:

• Certification in Open Dialogue family therapy
• Facilitator, Hearing Voices Network
• Ongoing training and supervision in evidence-based therapy for people diagnosed with "schizophrenia"

She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Website: drrebeccahatton.com

“I’ve met people who were afraid to recover.  I’ve met people for whom the conditions weren’t quite right, but I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t capable, who couldn’t recover”.
Eleanor Longden, PhD

No charge, donations welcomed

RSVPs requested to allow for adequate spacing

For more information or to RSVP contact Deborah at 513-328-8178 (call or text) or [email protected].

March 31, 2017(4 events)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

April 1, 2017(2 events)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

April 2, 2017(4 events)

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2


March 23, 2017

Get Well Soon. Series about Psycho_Healthpolitics under Capitalism

The series is motivated by a frustration with the place that a radical critique of the institutions and disciplines of Psychiatry and Psychology currently occupies within emancipatory social criticism. During the 1960s and 1970s, a critical assessment of these institutions and their power/knowledge was a constituent element of leftist societal analysis. Today, in contrast, most of the left has little to offer in reply to a “professional” authority in moments of personal crisis or madness. In our view, it is necessary to come to grips with the profound changes in the mental health system over the last decades, and to develop a critique that matches the current conditions. We thus aim to create a space for radical commentary on the social function of psychiatry and psychology and so contribute to filling some of the lacunae that the antipsychiatric movement currently faces. We see this space in explicit opposition to the superficial critique of the pharmaceutical industry’s “ruthlessness” presented in mainstream discourse.

Therefore, a particular focus of this series will be the intersections of psychiatric/psychological concepts with oppressive racist, sexist, and economic power
relations as well as their effects within a neoliberalised health care system.

The Second Volume

The first book ‘Gegendiagnose’ put the focus on an update of anti-psychiatric theories.
Many items dealt with the functioning of the psychiatric/psychological system into society. With the second part, we’d like to put the focus on self-control and self-normalization. We are mainly interested in the ways in which ‘we’ govern and form ourselves in relations to psychiatric/psychological categories. We are similarly interested in ways of resistance and alternatives to and against the existing system and structures. Nonetheless, we’d like to encourage you to send your abstracts in, even if they are not in this planned emphasis. Likewise, we’d like to extend the textual range in the meaning of the title of our book-series and like to open it up for health-political topics, which walk the thin line between ‘psychological’ and ”physical’. Especially because biologistic and neuronal concepts question this separation.

Topic Suggestions
• In which ways, did the psychiatric_psychological system expand and is now part of the
everyday life and not just relevant for those which were diagnosed?
• What would an up-to-date analyses look like, which criticizes the power of the
psychiatric/psychological system and includes voluntarily chosen self-control?
• What does the psychiatric/psychological system in the projections of political
conflicts into the tier of a single person's health mean?
• What is the meaning of diagnoses in the context of recognition and marginalization
• Reports of own experiences
• Tensions/ Conflicts/ Ambivalences between anti-psychiatric and other movements
• Todays critical view about the anti-psychiatric theories of the 60′s and 70′s
• Which techniques and strategies of self-care did help me and what would I wish for
from my supporters?
• In which way is it possible to include psychiatric/psychological (self-)control in an
analysis of capitalistic structures combined with historical and local specifics
• Correlations between psychiatric/psychological knowledge and racism, colonialism, sexism and other ways of oppression

The raised questions are in no way finished and should only be seen as suggestions.
There is no final concept yet, which is why we explicitly invite you, to bring foreword
your own ideas. However, when selecting articles,  simple language is important to us, as well as a critical-sovereignty reflection of the used method and a reflection of ones own social/job-wise/involved-position in the respective topic. Furthermore, we expect
the willingness to work together with us on the specific papers, as far as it seems
necessary for the fitting into the textual direction of the book-series. We’d like to especially
invite people with own experiences in the psychiatric/psychological system to send us papers.

Submission of abstracts
To give us a better chance to orientate the content of your book contribution, we like you to ask to send us a short, half a page or a page long sketch, which describes your topic and
your methodological approach to: [email protected] by May 1st, 2017.

You can also use this email address to contact us anytime you have any questions or
concerns. We will tell you in July if we are interested in your article or if we have comments about its content. Accepted articles should be finished in November 2017. Their length should be 3000 to 4000 words (10-15 pages). We and our supporters will proofread the articles. We’ll make every effort to get each article proof read from different perspectives.

The release is scheduled for Autumn 2018.

The book will be published in German. All English articles will be translated into German by us and professional supporters.

About the publishers

Alex is active in anti-psychiatric contexts as an ally. He practices by supporting others
and tries to fulfill his personal political demands in structures of wage labor.

Cora is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Esto is doing support work in her local environment and has published an article in the first book of the series.

Kim is active in anti-psychiatric contexts and has published the first book in the series.

Call for Abstracts: Get Well Soon Series, Vol. 2

What Can We Learn from People Who Hear Voices in New York City

What Can We Learn from People Who Hear Voices in New York City


April 2, 2017

Please join us for a lively afternoon exploring how insights from people who have been diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses are raising fundamental questions about mental health, community and human experience.

About this Workshop:

Hear from Jacqui Dillon (Chair of the Hearing Voices Network England and co-author of Living with Voices: An Anthology of 50 Voice Hearers' Stories of Recovery), Gail Hornstein (Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and author of Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for Meanings of Madness), Noel Hunter (Clinical psychologist and Board Member of Hearing Voices USA), and Greg Shankland (voice hearer and business strategist) as they join with you to explore what can be learned by listening to the voice of voice hearers!

Registration is required and space is limited. For details, visit www.westernmassrlc.org/nyc-workshop

Co-sponsored by Hearing Voices NYC and the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community

What Can We Learn from People Who Hear Voices in New York City

National Empowerment Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration

National Empowerment Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration


April 2, 2017


Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

National Empowerment Center
25th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, April 2nd, 2 pm - 7 pm
Boston University, Sargent College
635 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

Please join us for this FREE event as we celebrate 25 years of the National Empowerment Center! Led by people who have experienced significant mental health issues, trauma, and or extreme states, we are proud to celebrate 25 years of delivering a message of hope and healing for everyone. The afternoon and evening will include:

***A reading from Heartbeats of Hope, by Dan Fisher, CEO***

***A screening of Healing Voices, hosted by Oryx Cohen, COO***

***A concert by Dutch singer/songwriter Judy Blank***

Light refreshments will be provided.  Please come and bring a friend!  Register here:  http://nec25years.whindo.com/

National Empowerment Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration

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