The Reality and Impact of Paranoia: The Ten Year Anniversary Modern living and lifestyles in the 21 st century have ensured that paranoia has become established as a common phenomenon. It has become far more common than medical explanations alone can explain especially when CCTV cameras, media coverage and perceived threats can contribute towards fears

Mental Health Europe, the leading independent, pan-European mental health NGO, has for two years been calling for wider recognition of the crisis of confidence in the increasingly biological/neurological approach taken by western psychiatry and for action to change the culture and practice of mental health services to take more account of the views, rights and

Saturday 7th June Manchester. The Reality and Impact of Paranoia: The Ten Year Anniversary Modern living and lifestyles in the 21 st century have ensured that paranoia has become established as a common phenomenon. It has become far more common than medical explanations alone can explain especially when CCTV cameras, media coverage and perceived threats

Phil Thomas, Rachel Waddingham, Adam Juhgroo, Rob Allison have put out a call to recruit people who might be interested to tell their stories about their experience of reducing or coming off antipsychotic drugs. Initial information is available at the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/comingoff They intend to collect between 30 to 50 stories, and have just

The International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR) in partnership with the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, Liverpool Mental Health Consortium and University of Liverpool is pleased to make this preliminary announcement and call for contributions for the INTAR 2014 Conference, to be held in the University of Liverpool on 25th – 27th June 2014. INTAR

2 day workshop in Sheffield 12 – 13 December on developing Open Dialogue practice. Developing_Open_Dialogue_practice_workshop

Asylum Associates 10th Anniversary Conference in association with the Critical Psychiatry Network. September 2 nd to 4 th at Nottingham. Voices from within psychiatry who are seeking change are beginning to be heard. The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ leading regular publication, The British Journal of Psychiatry recently carried a paper from the UK Critical Psychiatry

“Why psychiatry is doing more harm than good” It has interviews with many members of the CPN, such as Jo Moncrieff, Sami Timimi, Duncan Double and Pat Bracken. Cracked

Guest lecture by Professor Nikolas Rose, given 15 May 2013. ‘Mental Illness: Five Hard questions’ at Nottingham. Lecture Professor Rose is one of our leading contemporary social scientists. Currently he is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College, London. In the talk, Professor Rose characterises

The IoP has invited Charles Nemeroff to give an inaugural lecture in spite of the fact that he lied to Emroy University where he was professor about millions of dollars he received from pharmaceutical companies. Members of the Critical Psychiatry Network have written to IoP asking them to reconsider this descision. Letter to IoP