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Critical Perspectives: on and beyond psychiatric diagnoses
Event Details
Time: November 12, 2014 to November 13, 2014
Location: Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
City/Town: Cork
Website or Map: http://www.iimhn.ie/critical-…
Phone: h.gijbels@ucc.ie
Event Type: two, day, conference
Organized By: School of Applied Social Studies and the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, in association with the Critical Voices Network Ireland
Latest Activity: Sep 16, 2014
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Event Description
The conference offers opportunities:
- to consider the value and relevance of psychiatric diagnoses in understanding and responding to a wide range of human experiences of emotional distress
- to explore critical perspectives on and creative responses beyond psychiatric diagnoses
This conference, now in its sixth year, is unique as it is free for all participants and it involves people from diverse backgrounds (self-experience, survivors, professionals, academics, carers) presenting, discussing and debating critical and creative perspectives on and beyond the dominant bio-medical approach. The 2010 conference saw the launch of the Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI), a network of people interested in considering and developing responses to human distress, which are creative, enabling, respectful and firmly grounded in human rights. The conference will include an open forum to discuss the on-going work of the CVNI.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Wilma Boevink, experiential expert, social scientist at Trimbos-Institute, the Netherlands. Founder of Tree (towards Recovery, Empowerment and Experiential expertise).
Pat Bracken, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, West Cork Mental Health Service. Author, with Phil Thomas, of Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World.
David Harper, Reader in Clinical Psychology, University of East London. Co-author ofDeconstructing Psychopathology and co-author/editor of Psychology, Mental Health & Distress.
Stuart Neilson lectures and writes about the autism spectrum and mental health in Adult Continuing Education UCC, incorporating his personal perspective as a client.
Olga Runciman, psychiatric survivor and chair of the Danish HVN. Works as a psychologist offering therapy to those who are often denied therapeutic help due to ‘severe mental illness’.
Jim Walsh is a self-proclaimed sceptic toward all that is accepted as certainty, or proclaimed to be ‘truth’. Despite growing up in Northern Ireland at the height of the ‘troubles’, being subject to prolonged societal and environmental ‘stressors’ he still thinks himself lucky in life.
Concurrent Sessions: the conference also includes a series of workshops and oral presentations, related to the conference theme.
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