REDUCING THE BIOMEDICAL DOMINANCE OF PSYCHIATRY

Friday 27 April 2001

Halifax Hall of Residence, University of Sheffield, UK

 

Programme:-

9-10am Registration

10am Phil Thomas, Consultant Psychiatrist, Bradford Community Health NHS Trust, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Bradford
Welcome and introduction

10.05-10.30am Lucy Johnstone, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Counselling, University of the West of England
Users and abusers of psychiatry

10.30-10.55am Shula Ramon, Professor of Interprofessional Health and Social Studies, Anglia Poytechnic University
Options and dilemmas facing British mental health social work

10.55-11.15am Coffee

11.15-11.40am Peter Campbell, Freelance writer and trainer in mental health, and founder member of Survivors Speak Out
System survivors: Is there anything we can do?

11.40am-12.05 Pat Bracken, Consultant Psychiatrist, Bradford Community Health NHS Trust, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Bradford
Post-psychiatry

12.05-12.30pm Phil Barker, Professor of Psychiatric Nursing Practice, University of Newcastle
The power of caring-with: getting to the heart of nursing

12.30-1pm Discussion

1-2pm Lunch

2-2.55pm Keynote address:-
Jan Foudraine
, Psychiatrist/Psychotherapist, Amsterdam, author of Not made of wood (1974) and Bunkerbouwers (1997)
Not made of wood 2001: On the power of medical maya

2.55-3.15pm Tea

3.15-4.15pm Workshops:-

(A) Simon Gelsthorpe, Clinical Psychologist, Bradford Community Health NHS Trust & Phil Thomas, Consultant Psychiatrist, Bradford Community Health NHS Trust
How do you manage to carry on working in a mental health system that you fundamentally disagree with?

(B) Jim Read, Mental health consultant, trainer and writer.
Thinking about a drug-free future for mental health services

(C) Alison Faulkner, Head of Service User Initiative, Strategies for Living Programme, Mental Health Foundation & Vicky Nicholls, Strategies for Living Programme Co-ordinator, Mental Health Foundation.
User-led research: towards a radically different mental health system

4.15-5pm Plenary. The way forward