Clinical Psychologist Richard Bentall talks about the difference between extreme belief and delusion, exploring the social and psychological roots of paranoia, and what separates paranoia, conspiracy theories and extreme beliefs,…
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Psychosis: Origins, Experience and Meaning
Talks from ISPS UK conference are now on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxnwakHRXD6HI71Mkz-tkHqg7V1pljiE3 Conference review by Isobel Todd, journalist: "Let's be clear, " declared Professor John Read, near the start of this unique Brighton…
Extreme Experiences: Mental Illnesses or Dangerous Gifts?
Notes from ISPS UK event, June 2019 Sascha Altman Dubrul, the co- founder of the Icarus Project was doing a tour of the UK doing a series of talks so…
ISPS Australia and ISPS New Zealand events on the Power Threat Meaning Framework
There are a number of Power Threat Meaning events being organised in Australia and New Zealand, in partnership with ISPS New Zealand, Blueknot and ISPS Australia, in Auckland, Sidney, Brisbane…
Reflections on the ISPS 2018 Annual Conference: Psychosis and Institutional Racism
Reflections on the ISPS 2018 Annual Conference: Psychosis and Institutional Racism by Cassie Addai Whether your relationship to psychosis is professional or personal, it is likely that the over-representation of…
Advanced Studies Seminar: ‘Surviving student life as a voice-hearer’
The Educational Voice-hearing Network's next Advanced Studies Seminar will take place on Wednesday 28th November (10 am - 4 pm) at St Catherine's College, Oxford University. The title of this…
Psychosis & Institutional Racism- ISPS UK Conference and AGM
Institutional racism is sometimes viewed as the elephant in the room in mental health and psychosis. We know that people from racialised minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with…
Liverpool 2017: List of parallel sessions and presentations now available!
We are pleased to announce this year's parallel sessions during our Liverpool 2017 international conference.The document shows both the oral presentations, followed by posters and contain the following categories: Lived experience perspectivesArts and…
Free places for the Liverpool conference for people from BAME communities
Bursaries (free places) for ISPS International conference , Liverpool 2017. ISPS UK is committed to increasing the involvement of people from BAME communities in all of its activities. It was…
Peer Supported Open Dialogue Conference 2017
March 22 | Regents Hall | Oxford Street | London The annual Peer Supported Open Dialogue Conference will be an even bigger and better event than the preceding conferences, since as a movement we are growing... The March Conference will highlight the exciting development of the last year: the expansion of Open Dialogue trainings. The NELFT (AFT accredited course) will now be relocated and University based with a new tranche of trainees both…