Treating acute psychosis with drugs can prolong the anguish

https://aeon.co/essays/treating-acute-psychosis-with-drugs-can-prolong-the-anguish

Adapting Open Dialogue for Early-Onset Psychosis Into the U.S. Health Care Environment: A Feasibility Study | Psychiatric Services

Source: Adapting Open Dialogue for Early-Onset Psychosis Into the U.S. Health Care Environment: A Feasibility Study | Psychiatric Services

The word “psychosis” is still met with fear and judgement

http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/blog/word-psychosis-still-met-fear-and-judgement

The Guardian view on cannabis and psychosis..how do we protect teenagers?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/17/the-guardian-view-on-cannabis-and-psychosis-how-do-we-protect-teenagers

We need to find a way to talk about psychosis the way we talk about depression

http://littleatoms.com/science-society/we-need-find-way-talk-about-psychosis-way-we-talk-about-depression

ISPS Liverpool 2017

http://www.isps2017uk.org/

Goodbye psychosis – using anger to cut its roots. With Dr Bob Johnson

The Brunswick
1 Holland Road,Hove,The City of Brighton and Hove BN3 1JF

July 29th 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

COST:

£7.00 (concessions £4.00)

SOTERIA IN THE PUB

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Dr Bob Johnson is consultant psychiatrist with many years experience of research and success in aiding the recovery of psychosis sufferers. His work a a consultant psychiatrist in the Special Unit at Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight (1991-1996) formed the basis of a powerful documentary investigation by the BBC’s Panorama. He believes the central causative factor in psychosis is fear, which leads to ‘frozen terror’, caused by traumas that have long ceased in the real world, but which persist in the sufferer’s head (a variant form of PTSD). He holds the controversial view that mental disorders are software based, not hardware, and are 100% curable.

Dr Bob Johnson will explain the rationale to psychotic symptoms and how they remain because they are too painful to shift and describe his model for recovery, which explores how solid emotional support can bridge the gap between earliest survival techniques and adulthood, so escaping ‘Nursery Nightmares’.

Please do circulate this information to anyone you think may be interested.  You can book tickets by registering for the event. Alternatively, tickets can be bought on the door.

Soteria In The Pub events are usually held bi-monthly on the last Wednesday of the month at The Brunswick in Holland Road, Hove.  

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Re-Imagining Mental Health Nursing into the 21st Century: Exploring our role supporting people with psychosis

Re-imagining Mental Health Nursing into the 21st Century:

Exploring our role supporting people with psychosis

Thursday, September 24th 2015 @ Amnesty International, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA

A conference for students of mental health nursing, practitioners, educators, managers, commissioners, carers, service users and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Contributors: Steve Trenchard, Catherine Gamble, Lou Hamilton & Mark Earl

Keynotes:

• ‘The culture of nursing, compassionate care systems and psychosis’
• Capitalising on the contribution of mental health nurses in psychosocial intervention implementation’
• ‘Collaboration’

There are increasing calls for a paradigm shift in the way we deliver care for those who experience psychosis – moving from medical model understandings and treatment to a formulation based approach that draws on the individual’s lived experience.  Such a shift is a challenge, requiring a willingness to respect, attend to, explore and respond empathetically to the narrative of the carer and service user.

This conference will provide an opportunity to explore these challenges and identify the implications for mental health nursing practice in collaboration with our multi-disciplinary teams, service users and carers.

Combining keynote presentations with opportunities for group discussion, we hope to highlight the ‘lived experience’ of mental health nursing, with an emphasis on capturing the current reality for nurses in practice and exploring our evolving role and opportunities for future directions.

 To book, click here:   Booking lines 

Re-imagining Mental Health Nursing into the 21st Century: Exploring our role supporting people with psychosis

Re-imagining Mental Health Nursing into the 21st Century: Exploring our role supporting people with psychosis Thursday, September 24th 2015 @ Amnesty International, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA A conference for students of mental health nursing, practitioners, educators, managers, commissioners, carers, service users and other members of the multidisciplinary team. Contributors: Steve Trenchard, Catherine Gamble, Lou Hamilton & Mark Earl Keynotes: ‘The culture of nursing, compassionate care systems and psychosis’ Capitalising on the contribution of mental health nurses in psychosocial intervention implementation’ ‘Collaboration’ There are increasing calls for a paradigm shift in the way we deliver care for those who experience psychosis – moving from medical model understandings and treatment to a formulation based approach that draws on the individual’s lived experience.  Such a shift is a challenge, requiring a willingness to respect, attend to, explore and respond empathetically to the narrative of the carer and service user. This conference will provide an opportunity to explore these challenges and identify the implications for mental health nursing practice in collaboration with our multi-disciplinary teams, service users and carers. Combining keynote presentations with opportunities for group discussion, we hope to highlight the ‘lived experience’ of mental health nursing, with an emphasis on capturing the current reality for nurses in practice and exploring our evolving role and opportunities for future directions.  To book, click here:   Booking lines

From The Guardian: Successful comedians display symptoms of psychosis, study says

http://gu.com/p/3yqtg