Power to Communities: Healing through Social Justice

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Power to Communities: Healing through Social Justice

Time: June 25, 2014 to June 27, 2014
Location: University of Liverpool
City/Town: Liverpool
Website or Map: http://intar.org/2013/11/818/
Phone: INTAR@liverpoolmentalhealth.org
Event Type: intar, conference
Organized By: International Network Towards Alternatives and Recovery
Latest Activity: Apr 24, 2014

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The International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR) in partnership with the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, Liverpool Mental Health Consortium and University of Liverpool is pleased to make this preliminary announcement and call for contributions for the INTAR 2014 Conference, to be held in the University of Liverpool on 25th – 27th June 2014.

INTAR gathers survivors, professionals, family members, and advocates from around the world to work together for new practices towards emotional distress and what is often labelled as psychosis. Based on leading research and successful innovations, INTAR believes the over-reliance on diagnosis, hospital and medication fails to respect the dignity and autonomy of the person in crisis. Self-defined recovery must be at the centre of ethical care.

INTAR promotes alternative settings to hospitals and institutions, so that people can find the care, connectedness, respect, and interventions they need and choose to use. We understand ‘madness’ and extreme states of distress from a social, holistic, and humanistic perspective. Our backgrounds range widely – peer/service user/survivor, psychiatry, psychoanalytic training, Eastern meditative disciplines, family advocacy, and academic research. Through this diversity, we are committed to building safe spaces and positive relationships. As an international network, we undertake to document the effectiveness of such alternatives, to refine and expand their use, and to make them more accessible to people who need them.

Psychiatric services increasingly regard madness as biological disorders affecting the individual’s brain. This is despite the absence of scientific evidence for this view, and the accumulation of recent evidence that drug interventions for psychosis are ineffective, lead to poorer long-term outcome, and cause serious harm to physical health. In addition, biological theories down-play the importance of the many contexts that are central to understanding madness, especially the role of socio-economic adversity, oppression, trauma and abuse that disproportionately affect people who are forced to use mental health services. There are deep concerns that Western disease models imposed through the notion of ‘global mental health’ will stifle creative, community-based responses to distress and madness. These have the potential to benefit us all. New approaches being developed by service users, survivors, experts by experience, carers and others refuse to prioritise biomedical understanding of distress preferring to see it as part of a wider range of responses, including self-help, self-advocacy, social and political activism, spiritual and faith-based approaches. This places choice and diversity at the centre of recovery.

These issues are at the heart of the 2014 Conference, which will take place over 3 days in June 2014 at The University of Liverpool.

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