Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: quality standard consultation The draft NICE quality standard for psychosis and schizophrenia in adults was available for consultation. The consultation period ended at 5pm on Monday 6 October 2014. NICE Quality Standard consultation NICE SCP Comments

CEP exists to communicate the evidence of the damaging effects of psychiatric drugs and treatments in the UK to the people and institutions that can make a difference. This evidence shows that psychiatric drugs, portrayed as useful and effective by many areas of the medical profession, can cause considerable harm to many patients, particularly when

17 & 18 September 2014 Leicester This residential conference will allow delegates to explore the tensions and the gap between the latest developments in psychosis research with the realities of implementation in our contemporary system. It will provide delegates with an opportunity to pause and reflect; explore and debate developments in our knowledge and understanding

The Reality and Impact of Paranoia: The Ten Year Anniversary Modern living and lifestyles in the 21 st century have ensured that paranoia has become established as a common phenomenon. It has become far more common than medical explanations alone can explain especially when CCTV cameras, media coverage and perceived threats can contribute towards fears

Mental Health Europe, the leading independent, pan-European mental health NGO, has for two years been calling for wider recognition of the crisis of confidence in the increasingly biological/neurological approach taken by western psychiatry and for action to change the culture and practice of mental health services to take more account of the views, rights and

Saturday 7th June Manchester. The Reality and Impact of Paranoia: The Ten Year Anniversary Modern living and lifestyles in the 21 st century have ensured that paranoia has become established as a common phenomenon. It has become far more common than medical explanations alone can explain especially when CCTV cameras, media coverage and perceived threats

Phil Thomas, Rachel Waddingham, Adam Juhgroo, Rob Allison have put out a call to recruit people who might be interested to tell their stories about their experience of reducing or coming off antipsychotic drugs. Initial information is available at the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/comingoff They intend to collect between 30 to 50 stories, and have just

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

2 day workshop in Sheffield 12 – 13 December on developing Open Dialogue practice. Developing_Open_Dialogue_practice_workshop

Asylum Associates 10th Anniversary Conference in association with the Critical Psychiatry Network. September 2 nd to 4 th at Nottingham. Voices from within psychiatry who are seeking change are beginning to be heard. The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ leading regular publication, The British Journal of Psychiatry recently carried a paper from the UK Critical Psychiatry