‘Compassion & Compulsion: exploring the tensions faced by service users & clinicians when people experience psychosis.’
Come and join us at an ISPS UK event in Preston, Lancashire, on the 31st July, from 18.00 to 20.00. FREE for ISPS members, tickets £6 or £4 (low waged). You can book your ticket here.
Professor David Pilgrim from Liverpool University will do a presentation about the issues faced by mental health services when using coercion. Jen Kilyon and Neil Caton, both ISPS UK Committee Members, will then give a response to the paper after which we will open up to questions and comments from the audience.
David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Liverpool and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton. He has published extensively in the field of mental health policy.
Jen Kilyon campaigns for genuine informed choice in mental health care where those who need it can be in a safe place that is right for them. She promotes respectful non-judgemental and family/network inclusive approaches to psychosis such as Open Dialogue. Jen is an ISPS UK and Soteria Network Trustee and helped to set up the first Soteria House in the UK.
Neil Caton has lived experience of psychosis and has several experiences of being admitted to psychiatric unit, one of which was compulsory. He will explore his experience of these admissions. Neil has worked as an involvement worker for the early intervention service. He has been an ISPS UK trustee for 5 years and runs a hearing voices and paranoia group in Chorley.