Manchester 10-12 September 2008
Elizabeth Gaskell Campus MMU
Map: http://www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/gaskell-and-hollings.php
Speakers include: Peter Beresford, Peter Bullimore, Ron Coleman, Jacqui Dillon, Sandra Escher, Rob Evans, Gillian Haddock, Paul Hammersley, Lucy Johnstone, Rufus May, Marius Romme, Dorothy Rowe, Phil Thomas, Phil Virden
Asylum! Conference and Festival Themes: Celebrating Terence McLaughlin – Life, work and change; Professional and User Involvement – Radical practice; Resisting Big Pharma – Resisting Big Psy; Connecting Theory and Change – Academic knowledge and political activity; Transdisciplinary Experimental Applied Psychology – Critique and creativity; Disabling and enabling – In and against oppressive institutions; New Social Movements – Linking with social action
This is an Asylum conference co-organised by Asylum Associates, the Discourse Unit, Hearing Voices Network and Paranoia Network, with the participating sponsorship of Campaign Against the Schizophrenia Label, UCLAN Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health, PCCS Books, Intervoice and Working to Recovery. The conference will bring together organisations, activists, campaigners and academics working for radical challenge and change in mental health. It will showcase critical work on psychiatry and psychology (‘Big Psy’) and the pharmaceutical industry (‘Big Pharma’), and alternatives to diagnostic medical labels like ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘paranoia’. The conference will run alongside a festival of organisations working for a better world. There will be guest speakers, academic papers, panel discussions, bookstalls, film, art, music and workshops.
Conference Details Update: www.discourseunit.com/asylum.doc
ASYLUM! CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL – MANCHESTER 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2008 – ELIZABETH GASKELL CAMPUS MMU – SESSION TITLES LIST
BARCHARD: Chris Barchard: ‘A Life Beyond Psychiatry’
BERESFORD: Peter Beresford: ‘Moving Forward the Survivor Movement: A Survivor View’
BULLIMORE: Peter Bullimore: ‘Working with paranoia and voices’
CALTON: Tim Calton and Caroline Cooper: ‘The Annihilation of Subjective Experience in Psychiatric Research 1988-2004’
COHEN: Elliot Cohen & GROUP: +FILM ‘Suicide drama group’
COLEMAN: Ron Coleman: ‘The colonization of recovery’
COOPER: Caroline Cooper: see CALTON
DILLON: Jacqui Dillon: ‘The personal is political’
DE SANTIS: Carla De Santis: ‘Same diagnosis – Different contexts: Ethical?’
DOUBLE: Duncan Double: See THOMAS
ESCHER: Sandra Escher: * ‘title to be announced’
EVANS: Rob Evans: * ‘title to be announced’
GEORGACA: Eugenie Georgaca & GROUP: +FILM ‘Community care and user initiatives in Greece’
HADDOCK: Gill Haddock: * ‘title to be announced’
HAAKEN: Jan Haaken & FILM: ‘Pleading Insanity: Between Madness and Badness’
HAMMERSLEY: Paul Hammersley: * ‘title to be announced’
HARTLEY: Janice Hartley: ‘Mapping the far side of the mind: Psychosis and recovery as an inner spiritual journey’
HISTORY: Survivor’s History Group: ‘Recording our Histories’
JIMENEZ: Bernardo Jimenez-Dominguez: ‘Liberation Psychology of Ignacio Martín-Baró
JOHNSTONE: Lucy Johnstone: ‘Formulation as a radical alternative to diagnosis’
LEICESTER ARTS: EXHIBITION ‘Living with psychiatric medication group: Exhibit of Mugs’
LEWIS: Lydia Lewis: ‘The mental health service user/survivor and women’s movements: mapping the connections’
LLORENS: Manuel Llorens: ‘The Nudity of the Madman: Poetry Talks Back to Psychiatry’
MADHATTERS: Mad Hatters of Bath: ‘Grass Roots Mad Pride Events Workshop’
MADDOCK: Mary Maddock: ‘The ongoing myth of ‘mental illness’ which abolishes our human and civil rights’
MAKEVIT: Sue Makevit: ‘Art as survival and Buddhism’
MAY: Rufus May: ‘Workshop on coming off medication’
MCDAID: Shari McDaid: ‘Re-defining Empowerment in Mental Health: Collective Action towards Respect and Recognition’
MCLAUGHLIN: Terence McLaughlin: A celebration of his life and work
MILLS: China Mills: ‘Young people hear voices too…A collection of stories about hearing voices when you’re young’
MONCRIEFF: Joanna Moncrieff: See THOMAS
OLAGUNJU: Andrew Toyin Olagunju: ‘Institutionalisation and “mental illness”: Reviews of predictors and evidence against’
PATEL: Shuresh Patel: ‘An Alternative Support Model to the Medical Model of Medication for Long Term Schizophrenia’
PERCEPTIONS: Perceptions Forum EXHIBITION
ROMME: Marius Romme: * ‘title to be announced’
ROWE: Dorothy Rowe: ‘What should I believe? Why our beliefs about the nature of death and the purpose of life dominate our lives’
SHINGLER: Aidan Shingler: FILM (only) ‘Only smarties have the answer’
STONE: Brendan Stone: +FILM ‘The Content of our Distress: What Happens When You Abandon Illness?’
SUG: SEROXAT USER GROUP: ‘How do you fight for social justice against the pharmaceutical industry? A public conversation with the Seroxat & SSRI User Group’
THOMAS: Phil Thomas, Joanna Moncrieff and Duncan Double: ‘What is the Critical Psychiatry Network?’
VILLASTÖCKLE: Dominik Sommer and David Wichera ‘The runaway house “Villa Stöckle”’
VIRDEN: Phil Virden: ‘Psychophobia and the medical model’
WEITZ: Don Weitz (paper read by Mary Maddock): ‘End Electroshock now: an anti-psychiatry perspective’
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