UK Critical Psychiatry Network Symposium
Programme
09:00 Coffee
09:25 – 09:30 Chair’s Welcome
09:25 – 09:30 Chair’s Welcome
Session 1
09:30 – 10:15
Hugh Middleton, Retired Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Toxic Interactions: Some Reflections on the Social Geography of ‘Psychosis’
Toxic Interactions: Some Reflections on the Social Geography of ‘Psychosis’
10:15 – 11:00
Jim van Os, Professor of Psychiatry
Attempting to reconceptualise mental health (services) in the Netherlands: the GEM social trial
Attempting to reconceptualise mental health (services) in the Netherlands: the GEM social trial
11:00 – 11:20 Tea/Coffee
11:20 – 12:05
Richard Byng, Professor in Primary Care
If diagnosis, medication, and therapy is not the answer, what would community mental health systems look like? Learning from Community Mental Health Framework sites
If diagnosis, medication, and therapy is not the answer, what would community mental health systems look like? Learning from Community Mental Health Framework sites
12:05 – 12:45 Discussion
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 2
14:00 – 15:00
Lade Smith CBE, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Inequality and why it’s bad for mental health
Inequality and why it’s bad for mental health
15:00 – 15:30
Venetia Young, Retired GP and Family Therapist
Distress and the body – The role of the breath: a GP perspective
Distress and the body – The role of the breath: a GP perspective
15:30 – 15:50 Tea/Coffee
15:50 – 16:30 Discussion
