As a conference with an explicit focus on change, we are privileged to be able to host a discussion involving high profile contributors from the worlds of personal experience (Debra Lampshire), politics (Luciana Berger, MP)... [ view full abstract ]
As a conference with an explicit focus on change, we are privileged to be able to host a discussion involving high profile contributors from the worlds of personal experience (Debra Lampshire), politics (Luciana Berger, MP) and psychiatry (Robin Murray). With such diverse expertise, this discussion will be entertaining, informative, stimulating, challenging and provocative.
We have invited the speakers to share with us a little about their experience of contributing to change in the areas of understandings of and approaches to mental health difficulties, with a focus on psychosocial approaches to psychosis. To ensure there is ample time for audience participation, we have asked speakers to keep their presentations brief and succinct.
Addressing this topic from such different positions, we anticipate that each speaker will bring a distinct perspective on the nature of change in the field of mental health. Inevitably, given the contested nature of much in the territory of psychosis, there may be differences of opinion on how best to achieve positive change (and indeed, what such change might look like), but with such an illustrious panel of presenters, we are confident this discussion will invite us all to consider how best we can go about contributing to making the kinds of changes that are urgently required in the area of mental health care in general and psychosis in particular.
Presenters:
Luciana Berger, Member of Parliament (Liverpool Wavertree)
Sir Robin Murray (Distinguished psychiatrist)
Debra Lampshire, (Experience Based Expert, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Chairs:
Jan Olav (Norway; Chair of ISPS International)
Rai Waddingham, (UK; Expert by Experience, Vice Chair of ISPS UK)
