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