Clara Humpston reviews Voices in Psychosis edited by Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day and Charles Fernyhough.
Category: Reflections
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…
Book Review of ‘Emily’s Voices’ by Emily Knoll
Review by Lucy Fernandes I have oftentimes found solace and a sense of connection in other people’s memoirs, which is why I read ‘Emily’s Voices’, a memoir by Emily Knoll…
Thoughts on stepping down from the ISPS UK Committee
Here, Judith Varley, ISPS UK Committee member until November 2017, shares some thoughts on her time at ISPS UK. My life changed irreversibly in the year 2000 when I found myself living on planet caring…
About our Founder
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She worked as a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, and as a teacher and patent…