In December, ISPS UK Chair Jacqui Dillon hosted a lively discussion with Anders Sørensen about his book "Crossing Zero", the art and science of coming off psychiatric drugs. Below is…
Category: Reflections
Can And Should We End Coercion In Mental Health Settings?
Content note: This article contains descriptions of psychiatric coercion, restraint, deaths in care, and survivor testimony that some readers may find distressing. On December 5th the East London NHS Foundation…
ISPS UK Member’s Networking Event
Creating Common Ground 19th February 2025, 6-8pm, Zoom Our Member's Networking Event is fast approaching! This is an exciting opportunity for all ISPS UK members to come together to get…
Update from Family & Friends Journaling Group
We've now held two sessions of the Journaling Group for Family and Friends, co-hosted by ISPS UK trustees Jen Kilyon and Julia Macintosh. Julia has facilitated journaling workshops since 2017…
Voices in Psychosis: The Experience of Hearing Voices – A Review by Clara Humpston
Clara Humpston reviews Voices in Psychosis edited by Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day and Charles Fernyhough.
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…
Book review of CBT for Psychosis: Process-Orientated Therapies and the Third Wave
Book Review of: CBT for Psychosis: Process-Orientated Therapies and the Third Wave (2019) Edited by Caroline Cupitt (Published for ISPS by Routledge) Third wave approaches to psychosis have been around…
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…
Book Review of ‘A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: a True Story of Schizophrenia’ by Sandra Allen
Review by Jessica Pons, ISPS UK member Her family cast Uncle Bob as a drug abusing, ‘crazy’ misfit. After reading his life story (after he hounds her to try and…