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Medicating Me: personal impressions of psychiatric medication

A mental health documentary exploring people’s encounters with psychiatric medication. It is not giving advice. It is giving a voice. Within the film, people voice their own subjective experience. It is neither promoting nor criticising any particular ideology.

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Building Critical Bridges – Call for Papers

The 3rd Conference of the Critical Suicide Studies Network (a.k.a. CritSui3), will be held in Perth WA at the University of Western Australia from 12-13 December 2018.

Ship of Fools

SHIP OF FOOLS, a mental health writers’ collective, was set up in May 2018 by Mary Anne Hill, who is a political researcher and writer from Scotland. See HERE for further details.

ISPS trustees sought

ISPS UK promotes psychological and social approaches to psychosis. They run national and regional conferences and workshops on key issues, support local groups and special interest groups and promote good practice

Welfare Imaginaries

At this juncture of intense welfare reform and contracting public provision, the question of how we imagine the welfare state, how it has been imagined and might yet be imagined, are both urgent and provident. The seminar series aims to bring together academic researchers and other individuals and groups – including activists, artists, journalists, campaigning organisations, and students – who are trying to better understand how we (re)imagine welfare for contemporary times.

Review of the Mental Health Act – Interim report

The independent review of the Mental Health Act was set up to look at how the legislation in the Mental Health Act 1983 is used and how practice can improve. The interim report provides an update on the review’s findings to date and its future direction of travel.

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