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