MIND has a campaign to improve acute and Crisis Care. More information can be found at their website In a year-long inquiry they listened to hundreds of people to find

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/events/qrmh/index.aspx The fourth Qualitative Research on Mental Health Conference is to be held in Nottingham, England, from July 3rd to July 5th 2012. The setting will be the University of

Biopsychological and social models

The acceptable limits of psychiatry. DB Double

The Critical Perspective on Health and Social Care Seminars run by the University of Nottingham are held on the first wednesday evening of the month. The winter’s programme can be

Richard House for The Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy has launched a new petition challenging the unscientific bias towards CBT of the UK Department of Health’s NICE clinical treatment guidelines.

The Philadelphia Association was founded in 1965 by RD Laing and has been running houses for the last 40 years (as well as cources and training). I enclose their leaflet

A series of 6 masterclasses on Wednesday eveining starting 5th October till 14th December in London. These are led by Suman Fernando, Patrick Vernon and Peter Ferns. MHandCultureMasterclasses

The next laing conference will be in London on the 22nd October titled: Practice or Process? The Divided Self in Psychotherapy. Sth RD Laing conference-flyer

Relieving Emotional Distress – What’s Wrong, What’s Needed Annual James Naylor Foundation conference on 26th November in London http://www.jamesnaylerfoundation.org/ Conference Flyer