Dear Friends,
It was an enormous feat that the Shuffle Festival was back again this year. Glad for the space offered to the Survivors participation and the popular Outsiders Poetry.
Lunacy brilliance celebration was obviously open and dedicated to everyone. We also kept in mind the memory of St Clements Hospital and all the people that have played a role during its existence, ex-patients and their friends and families, as well as all people and members of staff that made the history of the asylum. We were pleased to welcome more Deaf and deaf-accessible acts in the programme as well and stretch the inclusiveness spectrum of the festival.
An album with photos and credits to most if not all the contributors can be found here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.809021635880665.1073741839.491628407619991&type=3
Free next Monday the 17th? Join us for the monthly meeting at LARC 6:30 - 8:30 pm, plus find attached the last PEN and a nice list of links and events to follow.
Best wishes for the Ferragosto :)
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Lately there have been a series of online webinars such as Shades of Awakening or the currently running Mental Wellness Summit which are jam packed with information of healthy professional advice that offer solutions for mental wellness that, as openly state, "may not involve a pill".
The beauty of these teachings are that they are multiplying by the day and information, spreading faster than ever, can be easily accessed thanks to the blessing of having internet access in our homes. Education, most of the time self-education, is what saves us and heal us. Doctors are too busy in selling us their pills and keep us depending on them to admit of the slim chances of long term benefits in such addictions. Meditate folks!
''Emotions have healing power because they are the active regulators of vitality in movement and the primary mediators of social life. Therapists seek to find ways to engage with the motives that light up body and mind with emotions. Thus, they must move with the patient in the performance of real desired project and tasks not only tasks that exists as stories in talking. The rhythmic expressive foundation of emotional dynamics is the same for all spoken and unspoken 'dances' of the mind. Emotions are how we dance together and doing so is at the heart of the human enterprise.'
Colwyn Trevarthen (2009)
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More Harm Than Good: Confronting the Psychiatric Medication Epidemic a one-day international conference at the University of Roehampton
The Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry invites you to join global leaders in the critical psychiatry movement for a one-day conference which will address an urgent public health issue: the iatrogenic harm caused by the over-prescription of psychiatric medications.
There is clear evidence that these drugs cause more harm than good over the long term, and can damage patients and even shorten their lives. Yet why are these medications so popular? What harms are they causing? What can be done to address the problem?
This event brings together key experts from both sides of the Atlantic to debate these issues, and we invite you to join the discussion (see the programme below).
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK: estore.roehampton.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=172&prodid=217
Places are limited – early booking is advised! We are afraid there are now no more £28 reduced fee spaces.
When:18 September 2015
Where: Whitelands College, University of Roehampton, London SW15 5PU (how to find us)
Cost: £85 for delegates
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The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia & the Revolution in Mental Health Care
Author's Talk: John Foot - Chair Graham Music
Freud Museum 20 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 5SX
18 August 2015 7pm - doors open at 6.30pm
£10/£7 concessions/Member of the Freud Museum
Writer and Professor of Modern Italian History, John Foot discusses his latest publication, The Man Who Closed the Asylums (Verso August 2015) - The fascinating story of Franco Basaglia, one of the key intellectual and cultural figures of 1960s counterculture - a contemporary of R.D. Laing who worked to overturn institutions from within and ended up transforming mental health care in Italy.
Inspired by the writings of authors such as Primo Levi, R. D. Laing, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, and the practices of experimental therapeutic communities in the UK, Basaglia’s seminal work as a psychiatrist and campaigner in Gorizia, Parma and Trieste fed into and substantially contributed to the national and international movement of 1968. In 1978 a law was passed (the ‘Basaglia law’) which sanctioned the closure of the entire Italian asylum system.
The first comprehensive study of this revolutionary approach to mental health care, The Man Who Closed the Asylums is a gripping account of one of the most influential movements in twentieth- century psychiatry, which helped to transform the way we see mental illness. Basaglia’s work saved countless people from a miserable existence, and his legacy persists, as an object lesson in the struggle against the brutality and ignorance that the establishment peddles to the public as common sense. Book online here
Advance booking highly recommended
For further information contacteventsandmedia@freud.org.uk or +44 (0)20 7435 2002
www.freud.org.uk/events/76028/the-man-who-closed-the-asylums-franco-basaglia-the-revolution-in-mental-health-care/
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Community Options event: Your Say Your Day
Spirituality & You
Friday 21st of August from 2-5pm
The Brady Arts Centre, Hanbury St, Whitechapel, London E1 5JD
Guest speakers from the Spiritual Crisis Network.
Talks and workshops, plenty of hot delicious food.
More info suip@community-options.org.uk
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Rocks in My Pockets + Shorts + Panel discussion
Film screening will be followed by a panel discussion that asks, 'Can creativity tame mental illness?'.
23 Aug 2015 From 2:00 pm | Cinema 1 | £7.00 to £11.00 Book Tickets“With Rocks in My Pockets, Signe Baumane presents a sharp, surprising and funny animated feature, plumbing the depths of depression via her family history. Guided by Ms Baumane’s almost musically accented voice-over, this hand-drawn debut feature is based upon the mental struggles of her Latvian grandmother and other relatives. It’s told with remorseless psychological intelligence, wicked irony and an acerbic sense of humour.” Nicolas Rapold in The New York Times
Despite positive reviews and film festival success, Baumane’s 2014 feature is not set for theatrical release. Her energetic taboo-busting candour and a style of animation that captures the shape-shifting whimsy of the imaginary world deserve to meet and engage a wider audience.
We will be screening Rocks in my Pockets, preceded by three shorts from Baumane's 2008 web series, The Teat Beat of Sex. The series is an non-squeamish look at how sex works from a female perspective. Each 'explicitly educational' episode clocks in at under two minutes and provides graphic insights into one of a range of coming-of-age issues.
www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/rocks-my-pockets-shorts-qa-director
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Join the Cohesion Workshop Seminar to discuss on how to make Tower Hamlets a more cohesive borough.
This will run on the 8th September 1-4.30 pm venue mile end hospital arts pavilion e3 4qy.
Contact paul.burgess@towerhamlets.gov.uk for more details.
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Caring for People with Psychosis and Schizophrenia
King's College London (KCL) have recently developed a new online course focused on some of the relevant issues for carers of people with psychosis and schizophrenia. The initiative was funded from the Ostaka Lundbeck Alliance but the course was developed independently by KCL and will run through FutureLearn (part of the Open University).
It is a global course and open and free to anyone in the world be part of. It is a two week course designed to offer an in-depth understanding of some of the key issues and questions relevant to carers supporting people with psychotic disorders, including:
· Why is schizophrenia commonly described as psychosis?
· How can we best understand psychosis and its key symptoms such as hearing voices?
· What are the links between cannabis use and developing psychosis?
· Can psychosis affect physical health?
· How do medications work and what effects can they have?
· In what ways are siblings of people with psychosis affected?
· How can psychosis affect a carer’s health and their relationships?
The course includes a mixture of activities such as talking head videos, quizzes, written texts and opportunities for moderated discussions between learners. It will be the first time a course like this has been developed for carers.
The course includes people with lived experience of caring and a number of leading national and international academics and clinicians from psychology, psychiatry, pharmacy and nursing including:
Professor Elizabeth Kuipers (Chair of the NICE Guidelines for Psychosis & Schizophrenia)
Professor Sir Robin Murray (Chair of the Schizophrenia Commission)
Professor Mike Slade (100 ways to support recovery)
Professor David Taylor (Author of the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines)
Dr Fiona Gaughran (Lead Consultant, National Psychosis Unit)
Jacqueline Sin (E Siblings project)
The course is open to anyone with an interest in psychosis and caregiving issues. We designed the course with carers in mind. However, it would also be relevant for any student or professional working in a health setting with psychosis and carers. No previous knowledge of psychosis or experience of caring is required to take the course.
The course is based on approximately 3 to 4 hours per week study. The point of the course is that you can study how you like, in your own time. It is about flexible learning, in a style that best suits you e.g. if you want to do five minutes, you can do that, if you want to study for more, you can do that too.
I would be grateful if you would highlight the course to any families you are working with and any colleagues in your Trust working with families- so they too can pass on.
The course starts 12th October 2015 and enrollment is open from now. All one needs to do to sign up is simply follow the link www.futurelearn.com/courses/caring-psychosis-schizophrenia
Email enquires can be sent to: caringpsychosis.MOOC@kcl.ac.uk
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To conclude:
a Whistleblowing PRESS RELEASE - by Dr Bob Johnson
twitter: #ASimplerPsychiatry
An OPEN LETTER to Royal Colleges of Psychiatrists, of GPs, the CMO & NICE.
Dear President,
Re our ‘Age Of Unreason’
As holder of high public office, what is your response to the excoriating Special Report on mental health by The Economist (11 July 2015) – two sins of commission, (1) & (2), and one of omission, (3)? Who is going to take the present psychiatric profession to task, if you do not?
(1) Mental illhealth is set to cost us up to $16trn by 2030 (all other diseases cost less)
(2) Our current medical approach is pungently described as our ‘Age Of Unreason’
(3) Meanwhile, it’s a medical scandal to omit an approach that is perfectly sensible, obvious, courteous, civilised and inexpensive – for 500 years.*
Bearing in mind that the bulk of psychiatry occurs in general practice settings, heavily chaperoned by consultant psychiatric opinion, where do your medical responsibilities lie? Whistleblowing gets lonely.
The DSM (the current psychiatric ‘bible’) strenuously omits any reference to CHILDHOODS. Also omitted from the DSM is the irrefutable medical fact that child sexual abuse can remain undisclosed for decades – where does it go? Merging these two incontrovertible clinical facts happily accounts for point (3). Yet the BMJ recently adjudged this hypothesis, ‘unhelpful’**. When I then raised all three points above, the BMJ remained complacent. Do you?
Dr Bob Johnson Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Consultant Psychiatrist, twitter: #ASimplerPsychiatry
Empowering intent detoxifies psychoses
P O Box 49, Ventnor, Isle Of Wight, PO38 9AA, UK
e-mail DrBob@TruthTrustConsent.com www.DrBobJohnson.org
GMC speciality register for psychiatry reg. num. 0400150
-formerly Head of Therapy, Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, Liverpool
-formerly Consultant Psychiatrist, Special Unit, C-Wing, Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight.
-MRCPsych (Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists),
-MRCGP (Member of Royal College of General Practitioners).
-Diploma in Psychotherapy Neurology & Psychiatry (Psychiatric Inst New York),
-MA (Psychol), PhD(med computing), MBCS, DPM, MRCS.
-Author of
Emotional Health ISBN 0-9551985-0-X
Unsafe at any dose ISBN 0-9551985-1-8
* [Geel is a small Belgian town, pop 53,000.] “Because of the link between economic development, ageing and mental illness, the coming decades are likely to resemble an age of unreason. That is why Geel, which has been caring for people with such conditions for half a millennium, is worth paying attention to. What is striking about the town is how thoroughly normal it seems: the town square with its fake Irish pub; American pop music playing at a polite volume on the main shopping street. Mental illness, so often frightening, seems ordinary here. Geel’s system embodies principles for dealing with it—dignity, openness, kindness, patience—that should be embraced by societies everywhere. [The
Economist Special Report, 11 July 2015, page 5 §7, my emphasis].
**see www.DrBobJohnson.org/A_Simpler_Psychiatry
Campaigning for fairer & compassionate mental health care since 2007. Humane therapy, not DRUGS tyranny! Working together GREATER results can be achieved! (Pls, note that we are not longer meeting, but present in spirit)
Saturday, 15 August 2015
Friday, 17 July 2015
JULY Newsletter
Dear Friends,
We wish to send a reminder about F.E.E.L. monthly meeting as this is now due next week, on Monday the 20th of July.
Please join us as we will discuss last month events and the next one in programme, among other things.
June has resulted a very interesting and busy month following three major events dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the start of RD Laing community experiment at the Kingsley Hall in Bow. The more arty one at Cafe Oto, the projection of the documentary Asylum and the reading of the play "The Divided Laing".
Wonderful to get to meet beautiful minds such as Dr Berke, Dr Ridler, Dr Shatzman, Adrian Laing and Francis Gillett and hear about the creation and early days of the Philadelphia Association and anecdotal stories of those days.
Reviews by Dr Woodhams of the first two events can be read in the following links:
-friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/asylum-reconsidered-by-dr-stephen.html
-friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/kingsley-hall-revisited-by-dr-stephen.html
We are now pleased to announce that F.E.E.L. Outsiders Poetry event will be taking part to the Shuffle Festival on Saturday the 1st of August. Opening their doors at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End on Friday the 24th July until the 1st of August, the Shuffle will go on for nine days offering diverse opportunities for entertainment and be amused, included a tree house restaurant - that's right, people will have to climb up a tree for this! www.shufflefestival.com/2015-programme
On Sat 1st of Aug David Kessel will be running a poetry workshop with the Outsider Poets from 12pm. From 2pm the main stage will host the Outsider performance to which we have invited among other members of the Dragon Cafe', Core Arts, Deaf Poets, Eastbeat and Survivor Poets. There will be a ALL-DEAF show between 6 pm and 7:45pm
These events will be deaf accessible with the support of BSL (British Sign Language) interpreters and live captioning by STTR ( speech to text reporters). We take the chance to thank Arts Council England for offering us the opportunity to fund and make this event happen.
Have a look at the rich programme for the day and we hope you can join us for a fun day of free activities and entertainment that we wish to dedicate to all survivors, their families and friends. For one day let's celebrate lunacy, individuality and diversity looking at the bright side of Life www.shufflefestival.com/deaf-events
Please find to follow a series of events and news that might be of your interest.
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Trauma, Dissociation & Recovery: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder and Complex PTSD
Central London, EC2A on Saturday 18 July 2015. Time 9.30 am — 5.00 pm
This is a new course and suitable both for people who have previously attended 'Living and Working with Dissociation' as well as people with no previous training or experience.
It will look at how to work in clinical practice with people who have suffered complex and chronic childhood trauma, resulting perhaps in a range of diagnoses such as Dissociative Identity Disorder, psychosis, complex PTSD or borderline personality disorder
Cost: £75.00 per person / £70.00 for 'Friends of PODS'
For more information and to book please go to: www.pods-online.org.uk/events
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East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) working in partnership with MIND, Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group,Community Options and Bow Haven, have set up the Tower Hamlets Recovery College for service users, carers and staff who use mental health services in the borough. The project aims to support the recovery and wellbeing of mental health service users and will deliver free courses led by individuals with a lived experience of mental health and recovery. The courses will also feature support from someone who is trained and works within mental health services.
The project is being piloted this month and classes will run from 13th to the 30th July 2015. Another pilot for the college will also commence in September 2015 and will end in November 2015.
For more information on the project, please contact Robert Pickard on 020 7426 2450 or 07908 459 239 or emailRobert.pickard@elft.nhs.uk
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Survivor History Group
The next meeting of the Survivor History Group will be on Wednesday 29.7.2015 at 1pm-4pm (ish)
Where? Together, 12 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BE
Food and drink to reward those who come.
Everyone is very welcome at meetings of the Survivor History Group.
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What is Talk for Health? The Talk for Health programme is run by Psychotherapist Nicky Forsythe. It trains people to be part of a peer counsellling group – a space to talk honestly and be accepted for who you really are. This is good for wellbeing and confidence.
Who is it for? Free for Islington residents Talk for Health is designed for everyone; we can all benefit from developing our communications and listening skills.
Programme 1: YMCA at the Drum TASTER: Monday 27th July 4pm to 6pm ADDRESS: 167 Whitecross Street, London, EC1 8JT TRAINING: Six Tuesday afternoons from 3pm to 6pm August 3, 10, 17, 24 September 7 & 14 ADDRESS: The Drum, 167 Whitecross Street , EC1 8JT
Programme 2: The Mind Spa at Islington Mind TASTER: Monday 7th September 4pm to 6pm ADDRESS: 35 Ashley Road, N19 3AG TRAINING: Two Mondays 11am to 5pm September 14th & October 12th Four Tuesday evenings 6pm to 8.30pm September 22nd, 29th, October 6th & 20th ADDRESS: 35 Ashley Road, N19 3AG
Your first step is to book a place on the taster. Email info@talkforhealth.co.uk, call us on 07826 148 461, or text ‘call me’ and we will get in touch with you.
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New Book: The Hidden Freud: His Hassidic Roots, by Dr Joseph H. Berke
What’s the connection between Jewish mysticism and Western psychoanalysis?
Freud’s ancestors were Hassidim going back many generations, and included the only Jewish King of Poland.
Freud was forced to deny these roots in order to be accepted as a secular, German professional.
However, his Jewish background also informed the development of his ideas about dreaming, sexuality, depression and mental structures, as well as healing practices.
/The Hidden Freud: His Hassidic Roots/ considers how the ideas of Kabbalah and Hassidism profoundly shaped and enriched Freud’s understanding of mental processes and clinical practices. The book is now on Amazon
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PSYCHOSES – the case for optimism
Saturday 10th October 2015, 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Venue: Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Dr Bob Johnson & Peter Bullimore with National Paranoia Network Present a Half Day Panel Discussion
It’s time we
(1) reversed PSYCHIATRIC NIHILISM,
(2) stopped relying on MIND NUMBING DRUGS, &
(3) re-kindled the HEALING HAND OF KINDNESS
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(1) DSM-psychiatry isn’t working – 1 in 50 deaths is SUICIDE [>800,000 of 56m in 2012. WHO]
(2) All psychiatric drugs work by ‘INTOXICATION’, like alcohol [Myth of Chemical Cure p 244]
(3) More psychoses were CURED 1796-1850 than ever since. [Mad in America p24]
Panel: Dr Bob Johnson, Dr Eleanor Longden, Oliver James(stc), Peter Bullimore.
Chair – David Brindle, the Guardian Saturday 10th October 2015, 1:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Rates: £15, concessions £5.00. Contributions/donations welcomed Email: lindawhiting54@yahoo.co.uk Tel 07763652490/ 07590837694 – www.DrBobJohnson.org/audio
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Revised Mental Health Code of Practice
A revised Mental Health Code of Practice came into effect on1st April, replacing the 2008 version. The Code shows professionals how to carry out their duties under the Mental Health Act 1983 and provide high quality safe care. The revised Code of Practice seeks to provide stronger protection for patients subject to the Mental Health Act and to clarify roles, rights and responsibilities.
Find out more about the Mental Health Code of Practice
We wish to send a reminder about F.E.E.L. monthly meeting as this is now due next week, on Monday the 20th of July.
Please join us as we will discuss last month events and the next one in programme, among other things.
June has resulted a very interesting and busy month following three major events dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the start of RD Laing community experiment at the Kingsley Hall in Bow. The more arty one at Cafe Oto, the projection of the documentary Asylum and the reading of the play "The Divided Laing".
Wonderful to get to meet beautiful minds such as Dr Berke, Dr Ridler, Dr Shatzman, Adrian Laing and Francis Gillett and hear about the creation and early days of the Philadelphia Association and anecdotal stories of those days.
Reviews by Dr Woodhams of the first two events can be read in the following links:
-friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/asylum-reconsidered-by-dr-stephen.html
-friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/kingsley-hall-revisited-by-dr-stephen.html
We are now pleased to announce that F.E.E.L. Outsiders Poetry event will be taking part to the Shuffle Festival on Saturday the 1st of August. Opening their doors at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End on Friday the 24th July until the 1st of August, the Shuffle will go on for nine days offering diverse opportunities for entertainment and be amused, included a tree house restaurant - that's right, people will have to climb up a tree for this! www.shufflefestival.com/2015-programme
On Sat 1st of Aug David Kessel will be running a poetry workshop with the Outsider Poets from 12pm. From 2pm the main stage will host the Outsider performance to which we have invited among other members of the Dragon Cafe', Core Arts, Deaf Poets, Eastbeat and Survivor Poets. There will be a ALL-DEAF show between 6 pm and 7:45pm
These events will be deaf accessible with the support of BSL (British Sign Language) interpreters and live captioning by STTR ( speech to text reporters). We take the chance to thank Arts Council England for offering us the opportunity to fund and make this event happen.
Have a look at the rich programme for the day and we hope you can join us for a fun day of free activities and entertainment that we wish to dedicate to all survivors, their families and friends. For one day let's celebrate lunacy, individuality and diversity looking at the bright side of Life www.shufflefestival.com/deaf-events
Please find to follow a series of events and news that might be of your interest.
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Trauma, Dissociation & Recovery: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder and Complex PTSD
Central London, EC2A on Saturday 18 July 2015. Time 9.30 am — 5.00 pm
This is a new course and suitable both for people who have previously attended 'Living and Working with Dissociation' as well as people with no previous training or experience.
It will look at how to work in clinical practice with people who have suffered complex and chronic childhood trauma, resulting perhaps in a range of diagnoses such as Dissociative Identity Disorder, psychosis, complex PTSD or borderline personality disorder
Cost: £75.00 per person / £70.00 for 'Friends of PODS'
For more information and to book please go to: www.pods-online.org.uk/events
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East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) working in partnership with MIND, Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group,Community Options and Bow Haven, have set up the Tower Hamlets Recovery College for service users, carers and staff who use mental health services in the borough. The project aims to support the recovery and wellbeing of mental health service users and will deliver free courses led by individuals with a lived experience of mental health and recovery. The courses will also feature support from someone who is trained and works within mental health services.
The project is being piloted this month and classes will run from 13th to the 30th July 2015. Another pilot for the college will also commence in September 2015 and will end in November 2015.
For more information on the project, please contact Robert Pickard on 020 7426 2450 or 07908 459 239 or emailRobert.pickard@elft.nhs.uk
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Survivor History Group
The next meeting of the Survivor History Group will be on Wednesday 29.7.2015 at 1pm-4pm (ish)
Where? Together, 12 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BE
Food and drink to reward those who come.
Everyone is very welcome at meetings of the Survivor History Group.
--------------------------------
What is Talk for Health? The Talk for Health programme is run by Psychotherapist Nicky Forsythe. It trains people to be part of a peer counsellling group – a space to talk honestly and be accepted for who you really are. This is good for wellbeing and confidence.
Who is it for? Free for Islington residents Talk for Health is designed for everyone; we can all benefit from developing our communications and listening skills.
Programme 1: YMCA at the Drum TASTER: Monday 27th July 4pm to 6pm ADDRESS: 167 Whitecross Street, London, EC1 8JT TRAINING: Six Tuesday afternoons from 3pm to 6pm August 3, 10, 17, 24 September 7 & 14 ADDRESS: The Drum, 167 Whitecross Street , EC1 8JT
Programme 2: The Mind Spa at Islington Mind TASTER: Monday 7th September 4pm to 6pm ADDRESS: 35 Ashley Road, N19 3AG TRAINING: Two Mondays 11am to 5pm September 14th & October 12th Four Tuesday evenings 6pm to 8.30pm September 22nd, 29th, October 6th & 20th ADDRESS: 35 Ashley Road, N19 3AG
Your first step is to book a place on the taster. Email info@talkforhealth.co.uk, call us on 07826 148 461, or text ‘call me’ and we will get in touch with you.
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New Book: The Hidden Freud: His Hassidic Roots, by Dr Joseph H. Berke
What’s the connection between Jewish mysticism and Western psychoanalysis?
Freud’s ancestors were Hassidim going back many generations, and included the only Jewish King of Poland.
Freud was forced to deny these roots in order to be accepted as a secular, German professional.
However, his Jewish background also informed the development of his ideas about dreaming, sexuality, depression and mental structures, as well as healing practices.
/The Hidden Freud: His Hassidic Roots/ considers how the ideas of Kabbalah and Hassidism profoundly shaped and enriched Freud’s understanding of mental processes and clinical practices. The book is now on Amazon
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PSYCHOSES – the case for optimism
Saturday 10th October 2015, 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Venue: Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Dr Bob Johnson & Peter Bullimore with National Paranoia Network Present a Half Day Panel Discussion
It’s time we
(1) reversed PSYCHIATRIC NIHILISM,
(2) stopped relying on MIND NUMBING DRUGS, &
(3) re-kindled the HEALING HAND OF KINDNESS
__
(1) DSM-psychiatry isn’t working – 1 in 50 deaths is SUICIDE [>800,000 of 56m in 2012. WHO]
(2) All psychiatric drugs work by ‘INTOXICATION’, like alcohol [Myth of Chemical Cure p 244]
(3) More psychoses were CURED 1796-1850 than ever since. [Mad in America p24]
Panel: Dr Bob Johnson, Dr Eleanor Longden, Oliver James(stc), Peter Bullimore.
Chair – David Brindle, the Guardian Saturday 10th October 2015, 1:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Rates: £15, concessions £5.00. Contributions/donations welcomed Email: lindawhiting54@yahoo.co.uk Tel 07763652490/ 07590837694 – www.DrBobJohnson.org/audio
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Revised Mental Health Code of Practice
A revised Mental Health Code of Practice came into effect on1st April, replacing the 2008 version. The Code shows professionals how to carry out their duties under the Mental Health Act 1983 and provide high quality safe care. The revised Code of Practice seeks to provide stronger protection for patients subject to the Mental Health Act and to clarify roles, rights and responsibilities.
Find out more about the Mental Health Code of Practice
Sunday, 12 July 2015
Asylum Reconsidered, by Dr Stephen Woodhams
Review of:
RD Laing 50 @ Kingsley Hall, 12th June 2015
Asylum by Peter Robinson is not set in Kingsley Hall, yet it was in keeping with the anniversary that this screening should take place there. The anniversary is that of the 'social experiment' begin at the Hall in 1965, which gave rise to the Philadelphia and Arbour Associations' community houses. Continuity from Bow up to Archway and elsewhere, was made possible when Joseph Berke Leon Redler and others carried forward their belief in asylum where deeply distressing experiences could be lived through without pressure to 'recover' or be inoculated by chemicals. The word asylum carries long held meanings referring to a safe place, a sanctuary, haven. Each term may convey the sense of protection from immediate external pressure, where by agreed respect for shared space, a person may do as they need to go through their experience.
The film emanated from one of the community houses in Archway. Shot in 1971, Asylum attempts an anthropological recording, where the makers seek to be part of the household. The aim was to capture a lived experience of a therapeutic community where divisions of practitioner and patient were minimised, and governance arrived at by the will of those in the house. The use of a naturalist form for the film may of course be contended. The house as depicted, contained features recognisable as part of many households, together with scenes clearly belonging to this specific group of people.
Discussion after the film was chaired by Rebecca Greenslade of the RD Laing reading group that had been meeting with the support of the Claremont Project in North London. Over the previous year four of Laing's works had been read, and the screening of Asylum was the culmination of the venture. On stage three figures represented different relations to the film, which is should be stressed only featured Laing in passing. One reason for this, was Morton Shatzman who had been a regular psychiatrist at the house, and who on
the evening, conveyed intimately the atmosphere, daily life and success of the community. Offering a different experience was Francis Gillett who having previously been at Kingsley Hall, had been one of the longest resident participants. His account of another occupant, who had been significant in the film, conveyed the difficult balance between a person living out their experience of distress, and respecting the shared presence of others. Finally was Adrian Laing, who has recently completed a biography of his father. Perhaps not surprisingly for a Kingsley Hall audience, power in the house, and as portrayed on film, was the topic of several contributions as explanation for the ascription, nature and exercise of authority was offered and contested.
It was an evening where through the medium of film, experience and thoughts could be exchanged. Asylum offers insight in to how a therapeutic community can and does provide space where distress, disturbing to sufferer and others, can be lived through.
Kingsley Hall offered its own contribution as the ghost of the original 'social experiment' once more awoke. If that ghost were given voice, it might tell many things, and even a rhetorical question. It has always been easy to demand that 'alternative' approaches to psychological distress answer questions, yet were the pharmaceutical industry placed in the dock, what evidence can it provide for the claims made for the drugs it persuades psychiatrist they should use? At least Laing and others can truthfully say they would not have cost the NHS billions. Our ghost might add, if a fraction of that finance had been made available for asylums where love was the primary treatment, perhaps, as we saw and heard this evening, care may have been a richer experience.
Acknowledgements:
Rebecca Greenslade, Chair RD Laing Reading Group, Nat Fonnesu, Friends of East London Loonies (F.E.E.L.) and the Kingsley Hall commitee.
RD Laing 50 @ Kingsley Hall, 12th June 2015
Asylum by Peter Robinson is not set in Kingsley Hall, yet it was in keeping with the anniversary that this screening should take place there. The anniversary is that of the 'social experiment' begin at the Hall in 1965, which gave rise to the Philadelphia and Arbour Associations' community houses. Continuity from Bow up to Archway and elsewhere, was made possible when Joseph Berke Leon Redler and others carried forward their belief in asylum where deeply distressing experiences could be lived through without pressure to 'recover' or be inoculated by chemicals. The word asylum carries long held meanings referring to a safe place, a sanctuary, haven. Each term may convey the sense of protection from immediate external pressure, where by agreed respect for shared space, a person may do as they need to go through their experience.
The film emanated from one of the community houses in Archway. Shot in 1971, Asylum attempts an anthropological recording, where the makers seek to be part of the household. The aim was to capture a lived experience of a therapeutic community where divisions of practitioner and patient were minimised, and governance arrived at by the will of those in the house. The use of a naturalist form for the film may of course be contended. The house as depicted, contained features recognisable as part of many households, together with scenes clearly belonging to this specific group of people.
Discussion after the film was chaired by Rebecca Greenslade of the RD Laing reading group that had been meeting with the support of the Claremont Project in North London. Over the previous year four of Laing's works had been read, and the screening of Asylum was the culmination of the venture. On stage three figures represented different relations to the film, which is should be stressed only featured Laing in passing. One reason for this, was Morton Shatzman who had been a regular psychiatrist at the house, and who on
the evening, conveyed intimately the atmosphere, daily life and success of the community. Offering a different experience was Francis Gillett who having previously been at Kingsley Hall, had been one of the longest resident participants. His account of another occupant, who had been significant in the film, conveyed the difficult balance between a person living out their experience of distress, and respecting the shared presence of others. Finally was Adrian Laing, who has recently completed a biography of his father. Perhaps not surprisingly for a Kingsley Hall audience, power in the house, and as portrayed on film, was the topic of several contributions as explanation for the ascription, nature and exercise of authority was offered and contested.
It was an evening where through the medium of film, experience and thoughts could be exchanged. Asylum offers insight in to how a therapeutic community can and does provide space where distress, disturbing to sufferer and others, can be lived through.
Kingsley Hall offered its own contribution as the ghost of the original 'social experiment' once more awoke. If that ghost were given voice, it might tell many things, and even a rhetorical question. It has always been easy to demand that 'alternative' approaches to psychological distress answer questions, yet were the pharmaceutical industry placed in the dock, what evidence can it provide for the claims made for the drugs it persuades psychiatrist they should use? At least Laing and others can truthfully say they would not have cost the NHS billions. Our ghost might add, if a fraction of that finance had been made available for asylums where love was the primary treatment, perhaps, as we saw and heard this evening, care may have been a richer experience.
Acknowledgements:
Rebecca Greenslade, Chair RD Laing Reading Group, Nat Fonnesu, Friends of East London Loonies (F.E.E.L.) and the Kingsley Hall commitee.
Kingsley Hall Revisited, by Dr Stephen Woodhams
Review of:
R.D. LAING 50 WITH LUKE FOWLER + DR LEON REDLER + DR JOSEPH BERKE + THE BOHMAN BROTHERS + I LOVE THEM, FOR THEY ARE MY FRIENDS
Sunday, 7th June 2015
If you went “mad” how would you want to be treated?
BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a series called 'The Reunion' and it was perhaps something of the kind that occurred at Café Oto* when two distinguished figures were brought together to recall memories and tell the story of a 'social experiment'. The story starts, and yet of course does not, in 1965, when Kingsley Hall was made available for a group of people at very different socialpsychological points to live together in a nonhierarchical, nondivided manner. Two of the occupants of Kingsley Hall were Dr Joseph Berke and Dr Leon
Redler, and it was they who had been brought together to make this small yet significant piece of history at Café Oto on a Sunday evening in June fifty years later. Café Oto is not Kingsley Hall. Yet that Sunday evening those that packed into the bare surroundings of a once purposebuilt C19 factory,** where seating could leave an impression on a backside and heat aided shedding weight in sweat, may have sensed something of a social experiment. In the gloom of the interior, organiser and anchor for the evening, Dee Sada took the stage to thank everyone for coming. Though Dee gave no indication and took no credit, the event had taken some three years to bring together. However none of this background was revealed, instead after her brief introduction, the stage was given over to filmmaker Luke Fowler. What You See Is Where You're At was made, Luke told the audience, some fifteen years previous. Compose of exerts of interviews with past residents of Kingsley Hall and clips of footage shot during the occupancy, What You See Is Where You're At offered an insight to both context and lived experience of RD Laing's idea. The film is worth seeing, though it was perhaps after that understanding of some of what had been seen, became clearer when Leon Redler in conversation with Luke Fowler, explained his path to RD Laing and so Kingsley Hall.
Kingsley Hall is in Bow, an area of East London which if marginalised from the outside by trunk roads, is yet home to vibrant populations. Among some local people, Gandhi Hall is the immediate and obvious description – the building's most famous resident having stayed there in 1931. Luke Fowler and Leon Redler offered a little of this history as setting for what took place there, though of course that was only one part, another being the circumstance of 'mental health' patients. Despite attempts to move practice forward,
and growing interest in psychoanalytic and other socialinterpretivecommunication based approaches, regimes involving forced drugs and electroconvulsive treatments were probably dominant in the NHS. The social experiment was to see what might happen when people lived together not as professionals and patients, but as a population seeking to understand diverse experiences and expressions of a circumstance commonly named 'madness'. Leon Redler's analogy with the previous night's Champion's League Final, was in answer to Luke Fowler's question as to difference between Kingsley Hall on film and as lived experience. In essence, just as the match produced 'highlights', so film captured perhaps moments to engage an audience. The lived experience however was very much more ordinary, the everyday routine and even dullness of life for residents. Yet that was perhaps the point – 'RD Laing's Kingsley Hall' has been mythologised to become something exotic. Perhaps a balanced record would read that it was a endeavour to seek more humane means of living with 'madness' and that what ever the realised short comings, the impulse behind the attempt remains valid.
Joseph Berke's presentation differed in style. Anecdotal in places, it revealed some of his experiences and memories. Perhaps best known was his long and at times suffering relationship with the later artist Mary Barnes. The material for her early work is well known and in the film, we see Mary and Joe Berke at perhaps an early stage, where physical interaction is to the fore. Eventually they were to write, Two Accounts of Madness, a title that captures perhaps the spirit of the Hall. Not the separate 'reports' of
patient and therapist, but two stories told of a process lived through together but experienced differently. Fire was a magazine produced at the Hall, and Joe Berke presented a copy to the audience, who may have regretted that images contained could not have been put on view. What was offered however were poems, Joe reading a small number accompanied by Dee. It was in the reading of these perhaps that the sense of
what Kingsley Hall had been about, gained immediacy. Recollections gave insight to the life and times of Kingsley Hall, the poetry portrayed its spirit. An aside admittedly, Joe Berke revealed how Mary Barnes Catholicism had led him to reengage with his own Jewish heritage, yet perhaps the profession speaks something too of the spirit of the Hall, a sense of sharing and journeying on roads that may enable any participant to reflect on where roots to their own self may grow.
Laing at 50 was an evening made by people, a lot of people, crammed into a hot darkened room. On stage the Bohman Brothers ended the evening making music and poetry where the name RD Laing took on various connections and where ideas associated with him found expression. The social experiment at Kingsley Hall was of course of its time – when else could it have been? The New Left was as others like Stuart Hall have recalled, pervasive RD Laing and David Cooper were contributors to the Dialectics of Liberation Conference at the Roundhouse in 1967. Organisations that have grown from Kingsley Hall, the Philadelphia Association and the Arbours Association are necessarily different from the original experiment, yet what came through from Leon Redler and Joseph Berke was a passion that the Flame, the impulse that gave birth to the Hall should live on. To borrow a term from Raymond Williams, a near cousin in more than age to RD Laing, the long revolution toward a humane psychiatry and beyond that a humane society has to be pursued. Both history marker and celebration, that Sunday evening in June reminds us that any road to social justice has to address despair, suffering, pain and loss as it can be experienced by any person and that love needs be at the centre of any response.
* https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rdlaing50/
** http://www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/HT297.pdf
My thanks to Sally England of Hackney Archive for this information.
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
June Newsletter
Dear Friends,
We wish congratulate with musician Dee Sada for curating an awesome event last Sunday at Cafe Oto, Dalston, dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the radical experiment at Kingsley Hall by RD Laing and colleagues. Wonderful contributions were shared by Luke Fowler, Dr Leon Redler, Dr Joseph Berke, The Bohman Brothers and a special "I LOVE them, for they are my Friends" performance with Dee Sada, Billy Steiger and an humorous Dr Berke. An excerpt of the evening can be viewed here www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SLxTv6tZU
The conversation about the community of Bow will continue this Friday the 12th after the projection of the film/documentary Asylum, by Peter Robinson, at the Kingsley Hall itself. Confirmed guests for the panel discussion are Adrian Laing, Dr Shatzman and Francis Gillett. Doors will open at 6.30pm.
Also a gentle reminder for our monthly FEEL meeting, which is taking place next Monday the 15th.
I DOC Italy:
Screening of the documentary "The crazy woman next-door"
by Antonietta De Lillo. Introduced by poet and translator Cristina Viti
Date: Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Opening times: 6.30pm
Venue: Italian Cultural Institute
Organised by: Italian Cultural Institute
Free Event Booking Online
Poet Alda Merini tells her life in a personal and familiar narrative, fluctuating between public and private, lingering on the most significant chapters of her existence: childhood, womanhood, love, maternity and the relationship with her children, madness and the lucid reflection on poetry and art. The face of the poet and the details of her eyes, hands, and body create a portrait that does not hide the contradictions of one of the most important and renowned literary figures of the twentieth century. Alda Merini (Milan, 21 March 1931 – Milan, 1st November 2009) was a poet, writer and aphorist.
Cristina Viti's translation of Mariapia Veladiano's first novel (A Life Apart, MacLehose 2013) was the runner-up for the John Florio Prize. Other translations (including Elsa Morante, Erri De Luca, Amelia Rosselli) and poetry have appeared in a number of magazines and reviews. Her translation of the poetry of Gëzim Hajdari is forthcoming from Shearsman Press.
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DO WE NEED A CRITICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Freud Museum and The University of Roehampton
20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX
Saturday 13th June 2015 Day Conference 9.30am - 5.00pm
Exploring the talking therapies in neoliberal society
Speakers from different theoretical perspectives address questions about the provision of talking therapies in contemporary society, and how it affects therapeutic practice.
-Is it important for psychotherapy to be 'critical' and socially engaged?
-Do psychotherapists do a disservice to their clients by not being so?
-Do psychotherapy trainings discourage critical thought and promote an other-wordly sense of psychotherapy and the ‘inner world’? -What models of 'mental illness' and 'mental health' are appropriate for psychotherapy in the 21st century?
-Have mental health services and the 'mental health agenda' become part of the ideological mechanisms of neo-liberal society?
This conference will be of interest and benefit to anyone involved in psychotherapy today.
Speakers include
Del Loewenthal, Julian Lousada, Ian Parker, Hugh Middleton, David Morgan, Adrian Cocking, Mari Ruti, Anastasios Gaitanidis, Julie Walsh, Tom Cotton, Jay Watts, Rai Waddingham.
For further information please click here
For online booking please click here
Registration: £60 / £45 concessions (£5 discount for members of the Freud Museum and students and staff of Roehampton University).
Pre-Conference Evening Symposium
The Many Faces of ‘Critical Psychotherapy': An evening of dialogue and debate
Thursday 11th June 2015
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Talks and discussion at the Anna Freud Centre exploring different notions of the term ‘critical psychotherapy’ and putting them into dialogue.
Del Loewenthal – Introduction
Michael Rustin – Work in Contemporary Capitalism
Steven Groarke – Psychoanalysis and Resistance
Andrew Samuels – The Activist Client
Registration: £12 / £8 concessions
For further information please click here
For online booking please click here
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The British Psychological Society is pleased to announce the publishing of the BPS Good Practice Guidance on Hoarding
We would like to invite you to join us at the launch of A Psychological Perspective on Hoarding:
On Tuesday 16th June 3pm -5pm at the British Psychological Society London Office, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2 4UA.
The British Psychological Society requires everyone who wishes to attend to register online via this link: response.questback.com/britishpsychologicalsociety/dcphoarding/
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How Come We Didn't Know?
A photographic exhibition by Marion Macalpine
Showing between 16th - 27th June
Mondays to Thursdays 9am-8pm
Fridays 9am – 6pm
Saturdays 9 am – 5pm
Highlighting the many different ways that healthcare corporations are taking over the NHS.
Marion is a Hackney resident and member of Hackney Keep Our NHS Public.
The Brady Arts and Community Centre
192-196 Hanbury Street London E1 5HU
Tel: 020 7364 7900
www.hackneykeepournhspublic.org/exhibition-how-come-we-didnt-know.html
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End Austerity Now - National Demonstration Starts at 12:00PM
Saturday 20th June Assemble 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London
March to Parliament Square Organised by The People's Assembly
There is no need for ANY cuts to public spending; no need to decimate public services; no need for unemployment or pay and pension cuts; no need for Austerity and privatisation. There IS an alternative. We need a government to reverse damaging austerity, and replace it with a new set of policies providing us with a fair, sustainable and secure future. We can no longer tolerate politicians looking out for themselves and for the rich and powerful. Our political representatives must start governing in the interests of the majority.
www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/calendar
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THE DIVIDED LAING or, The Two Ronnies
A Rehearsed Reading
Written by Patrick Marmion
Directed by Michael Kingsbury
Cast: William Houston, Alan Cox, Michael Matus and Laura-Kate Gordon
A surreal comedy about utopian ambition, the nature of madness and the seething mind of RD Laing " The Divided Laing" depicts the final days of the community at the Kingsley Hall.
23rd of June 6:30PM
Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, E3 3HJ
Free of charge
RSVP michael@spellboundproductions.co.uk
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MARCH ON STREATHAM JOB CENTRE Friday, June 26 at 1:30pm. Meet at Streatham Memorial Gardens, Streatham High Road/Streatham Common North to march to Streatham Job Centre Plus, Crown House, Station Approach, London SW16 6HW
A mass protest against Lambeth Community Mental Health Services moving to Streatham Job Centre, and the establishment of the UK's first psychological therapies department at Streatham Job Centre - explicitly merging mental health services with the DWP's agenda of harassment posing as "Back to Work."
"Curing unemployment is a growth market for psychologists. Job Centres are becoming medical centres, claimants are becoming patients, and unemployment is being redefined as a psychological disorder."
- Organised by the Mental Health Resistance Network
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BREAKING THE FRAME 2: Second Gathering on the Politics of Technology
July 9-12 2015, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire
Organised by CorporateWatch, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Luddites200 and others
Come to Breaking The Frame 2 for a fresh conversation on the politics of technology. Join us in July for 3 days of workshops and campaign planning, plus music, food by Veggies, walking in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside, hands-on activities and more
We live in a world dominated by technology and by systems created by technical experts. So whether it's where your food and energy comes from or if there is a right to privacy, almost everything in life is profoundly shaped by those technologies. Technologies do bring some genuine benefits, but because their design is almost entirely controlled by corporate and military technical elites, they tend to reinforce corporate power and destroy the environment. Breaking The Frame is based on the idea that everyone has the right to take part in decisions about technology, and that is crucial to creating an economically just and sustainable society.
Last year's gathering was supported by more than 20 organisations. Whether you're a technology politics campaigner, trade unionist, environmentalist, critical scientist, developer of alternative technology, artist or plain concerned citizen, Breaking the Frame is not to be missed.
Booking: places are limited, so you'll need to book in advance. We aim to ensure that no-one is excluded for reasons of cost.
For those who are travelling from London, a group will taking the 12.58pm train from St Pancras on Thursday 9th - we'd love you to join us.
There will be panels on basic technology politics/technocracy, democratic control of technology, alternative technology and the transition to an economically just and sustainable society.
Workshops run by leading campaign groups will focus on the technology politics of food, the workplace, privacy/policing, gender, energy, health, militarism, mining/infrastructure, etc.
For more information visit breakingtheframe.org.uk/btf2015/, contact info@breakingtheframe.org.uk or call 020 7426 0005.
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Dr Bob Johnson & Peter Bullimore with National Paranoia Network
Present a Half Day Panel Discussion
Psychoses – the case for optimism
It’s time we –
(1) reversed PSYCHIATRIC NIHILISM
(2) stopped relying on MIND NUMBING DRUGS, &
(3) re-kindled the HEALING HAND OF KINDNESS
_
(1) DSM-psychiatry isn’t working – 1 in 50 deaths is SUICIDE [>800,000 of 56m in 2012. WHO]
(2) All psychiatric drugs work by ‘INTOXICATION’alcohol [Myth of Chemical Cure p 244]
(3) More psychoses were CURED 1796-1850 than ever since. [Mad in America p24]
Panel: Dr Bob Johnson, Dr Eleanor Longden, Oliver James(stc), Peter Bullimore.
Chair – David Brindle, the Guardian
Saturday 10th October 2015, 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Venue: Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House,
173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Rates: £15, concessions £5.00. Contributions/donations welcomed
Email: lindawhiting54@yahoo.co.uk Tel 07763652490/ 07590837694 – www.DrBobJohnson.org/audio
We wish congratulate with musician Dee Sada for curating an awesome event last Sunday at Cafe Oto, Dalston, dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the radical experiment at Kingsley Hall by RD Laing and colleagues. Wonderful contributions were shared by Luke Fowler, Dr Leon Redler, Dr Joseph Berke, The Bohman Brothers and a special "I LOVE them, for they are my Friends" performance with Dee Sada, Billy Steiger and an humorous Dr Berke. An excerpt of the evening can be viewed here www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SLxTv6tZU
The conversation about the community of Bow will continue this Friday the 12th after the projection of the film/documentary Asylum, by Peter Robinson, at the Kingsley Hall itself. Confirmed guests for the panel discussion are Adrian Laing, Dr Shatzman and Francis Gillett. Doors will open at 6.30pm.
Also a gentle reminder for our monthly FEEL meeting, which is taking place next Monday the 15th.
I DOC Italy:
Screening of the documentary "The crazy woman next-door"
by Antonietta De Lillo. Introduced by poet and translator Cristina Viti
Date: Tuesday, June 09, 2015
Opening times: 6.30pm
Venue: Italian Cultural Institute
Organised by: Italian Cultural Institute
Free Event Booking Online
Poet Alda Merini tells her life in a personal and familiar narrative, fluctuating between public and private, lingering on the most significant chapters of her existence: childhood, womanhood, love, maternity and the relationship with her children, madness and the lucid reflection on poetry and art. The face of the poet and the details of her eyes, hands, and body create a portrait that does not hide the contradictions of one of the most important and renowned literary figures of the twentieth century. Alda Merini (Milan, 21 March 1931 – Milan, 1st November 2009) was a poet, writer and aphorist.
Cristina Viti's translation of Mariapia Veladiano's first novel (A Life Apart, MacLehose 2013) was the runner-up for the John Florio Prize. Other translations (including Elsa Morante, Erri De Luca, Amelia Rosselli) and poetry have appeared in a number of magazines and reviews. Her translation of the poetry of Gëzim Hajdari is forthcoming from Shearsman Press.
--------------------------------
DO WE NEED A CRITICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Freud Museum and The University of Roehampton
20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX
Saturday 13th June 2015 Day Conference 9.30am - 5.00pm
Exploring the talking therapies in neoliberal society
Speakers from different theoretical perspectives address questions about the provision of talking therapies in contemporary society, and how it affects therapeutic practice.
-Is it important for psychotherapy to be 'critical' and socially engaged?
-Do psychotherapists do a disservice to their clients by not being so?
-Do psychotherapy trainings discourage critical thought and promote an other-wordly sense of psychotherapy and the ‘inner world’? -What models of 'mental illness' and 'mental health' are appropriate for psychotherapy in the 21st century?
-Have mental health services and the 'mental health agenda' become part of the ideological mechanisms of neo-liberal society?
This conference will be of interest and benefit to anyone involved in psychotherapy today.
Speakers include
Del Loewenthal, Julian Lousada, Ian Parker, Hugh Middleton, David Morgan, Adrian Cocking, Mari Ruti, Anastasios Gaitanidis, Julie Walsh, Tom Cotton, Jay Watts, Rai Waddingham.
For further information please click here
For online booking please click here
Registration: £60 / £45 concessions (£5 discount for members of the Freud Museum and students and staff of Roehampton University).
Pre-Conference Evening Symposium
The Many Faces of ‘Critical Psychotherapy': An evening of dialogue and debate
Thursday 11th June 2015
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Talks and discussion at the Anna Freud Centre exploring different notions of the term ‘critical psychotherapy’ and putting them into dialogue.
Del Loewenthal – Introduction
Michael Rustin – Work in Contemporary Capitalism
Steven Groarke – Psychoanalysis and Resistance
Andrew Samuels – The Activist Client
Registration: £12 / £8 concessions
For further information please click here
For online booking please click here
--------------------------------
The British Psychological Society is pleased to announce the publishing of the BPS Good Practice Guidance on Hoarding
We would like to invite you to join us at the launch of A Psychological Perspective on Hoarding:
On Tuesday 16th June 3pm -5pm at the British Psychological Society London Office, 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2 4UA.
The British Psychological Society requires everyone who wishes to attend to register online via this link: response.questback.com/britishpsychologicalsociety/dcphoarding/
--------------------------------
How Come We Didn't Know?
A photographic exhibition by Marion Macalpine
Showing between 16th - 27th June
Mondays to Thursdays 9am-8pm
Fridays 9am – 6pm
Saturdays 9 am – 5pm
Highlighting the many different ways that healthcare corporations are taking over the NHS.
Marion is a Hackney resident and member of Hackney Keep Our NHS Public.
The Brady Arts and Community Centre
192-196 Hanbury Street London E1 5HU
Tel: 020 7364 7900
www.hackneykeepournhspublic.org/exhibition-how-come-we-didnt-know.html
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End Austerity Now - National Demonstration Starts at 12:00PM
Saturday 20th June Assemble 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London
March to Parliament Square Organised by The People's Assembly
There is no need for ANY cuts to public spending; no need to decimate public services; no need for unemployment or pay and pension cuts; no need for Austerity and privatisation. There IS an alternative. We need a government to reverse damaging austerity, and replace it with a new set of policies providing us with a fair, sustainable and secure future. We can no longer tolerate politicians looking out for themselves and for the rich and powerful. Our political representatives must start governing in the interests of the majority.
www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/calendar
-----------------------------
THE DIVIDED LAING or, The Two Ronnies
A Rehearsed Reading
Written by Patrick Marmion
Directed by Michael Kingsbury
Cast: William Houston, Alan Cox, Michael Matus and Laura-Kate Gordon
A surreal comedy about utopian ambition, the nature of madness and the seething mind of RD Laing " The Divided Laing" depicts the final days of the community at the Kingsley Hall.
23rd of June 6:30PM
Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, E3 3HJ
Free of charge
RSVP michael@spellboundproductions.co.uk
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MARCH ON STREATHAM JOB CENTRE Friday, June 26 at 1:30pm. Meet at Streatham Memorial Gardens, Streatham High Road/Streatham Common North to march to Streatham Job Centre Plus, Crown House, Station Approach, London SW16 6HW
A mass protest against Lambeth Community Mental Health Services moving to Streatham Job Centre, and the establishment of the UK's first psychological therapies department at Streatham Job Centre - explicitly merging mental health services with the DWP's agenda of harassment posing as "Back to Work."
"Curing unemployment is a growth market for psychologists. Job Centres are becoming medical centres, claimants are becoming patients, and unemployment is being redefined as a psychological disorder."
- Organised by the Mental Health Resistance Network
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BREAKING THE FRAME 2: Second Gathering on the Politics of Technology
July 9-12 2015, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire
Organised by CorporateWatch, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Luddites200 and others
Come to Breaking The Frame 2 for a fresh conversation on the politics of technology. Join us in July for 3 days of workshops and campaign planning, plus music, food by Veggies, walking in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside, hands-on activities and more
We live in a world dominated by technology and by systems created by technical experts. So whether it's where your food and energy comes from or if there is a right to privacy, almost everything in life is profoundly shaped by those technologies. Technologies do bring some genuine benefits, but because their design is almost entirely controlled by corporate and military technical elites, they tend to reinforce corporate power and destroy the environment. Breaking The Frame is based on the idea that everyone has the right to take part in decisions about technology, and that is crucial to creating an economically just and sustainable society.
Last year's gathering was supported by more than 20 organisations. Whether you're a technology politics campaigner, trade unionist, environmentalist, critical scientist, developer of alternative technology, artist or plain concerned citizen, Breaking the Frame is not to be missed.
Booking: places are limited, so you'll need to book in advance. We aim to ensure that no-one is excluded for reasons of cost.
For those who are travelling from London, a group will taking the 12.58pm train from St Pancras on Thursday 9th - we'd love you to join us.
There will be panels on basic technology politics/technocracy, democratic control of technology, alternative technology and the transition to an economically just and sustainable society.
Workshops run by leading campaign groups will focus on the technology politics of food, the workplace, privacy/policing, gender, energy, health, militarism, mining/infrastructure, etc.
For more information visit breakingtheframe.org.uk/btf2015/, contact info@breakingtheframe.org.uk or call 020 7426 0005.
--------------------------------
Dr Bob Johnson & Peter Bullimore with National Paranoia Network
Present a Half Day Panel Discussion
Psychoses – the case for optimism
It’s time we –
(1) reversed PSYCHIATRIC NIHILISM
(2) stopped relying on MIND NUMBING DRUGS, &
(3) re-kindled the HEALING HAND OF KINDNESS
_
(1) DSM-psychiatry isn’t working – 1 in 50 deaths is SUICIDE [>800,000 of 56m in 2012. WHO]
(2) All psychiatric drugs work by ‘INTOXICATION’alcohol [Myth of Chemical Cure p 244]
(3) More psychoses were CURED 1796-1850 than ever since. [Mad in America p24]
Panel: Dr Bob Johnson, Dr Eleanor Longden, Oliver James(stc), Peter Bullimore.
Chair – David Brindle, the Guardian
Saturday 10th October 2015, 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Venue: Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House,
173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Rates: £15, concessions £5.00. Contributions/donations welcomed
Email: lindawhiting54@yahoo.co.uk Tel 07763652490/ 07590837694 – www.DrBobJohnson.org/audio
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
May Newsletter
Dear Friends,
The Open Dialogue event the other week brought along a good number of like-minded participants to our quest of effective and humane mental health services.
Dr Razzaque updated us about the OD pilot that was recently completed by the NELFT and three other trusts. It was a great shame to find out that our trust in East London apparently had not shown interest to get involved, when invited to take part to the pilot.
Nick Putman brought along with him a few trainees, fresh from the Open Dialogue UK training that week, and it was inspiring to hear that some of them are service users themselves. A very pleasant Adrian Laing, which came along to check out the event, was invited to join the team on stage for a much appreciated impromptu contribution.
Myra has suggested for the Kingsley Hall to be used as a base for this type of training to develop and as Liam Kirk said, the Open Dialogue seems to be returning to its spiritual home.
Most of us have already heard and seen enough of the obsolete system which, funded on terror and damaging dependency to medication, has been patronising the services for far long with poor results.
We really wish to see this new movement take shape and for the ripple to bring real benefits to people asap.
Notes of most of the event are available to share; send us a message if you wish to have a copy. A photo album can be viewed here goo.gl/BKcyrM
FEEL was on a local paper recently as some of our poets and Friends will be contributing to the closing Cabaret event of The Expert View, a micro festival by Bobby Baker and the Daily Life Ltd team. Please do check all the events of the festival that will take place between Thu 7th and Fri 8th exploring ‘expertise’ in arts and mental health from the perspectives of all involved dailylifeltd.co.uk/the-expert-view-a-micro-festival-save-the-dates/
To follow, please find a few interesting and important dates for your diary and find attached Word file with details of the just published Poetry Express e-magazine No.48 from Survivors' Poetry.
The next FEEL monthly meeting is on Monday the 18th of May at LARC. Join us if you can.
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Next week between the 11th and the 17th is mental health awareness week.
Also time to use the SMILEY TEARY BADGE. The "ONLY US" campaign can be now followed on Twitter
"There's "them" — and then there's "us". They are mentally ill and dangerous We are well, happy and safe"
Is this really true? Or is the uncomfortable truth that there's a continuum, a scale along which we all slide back and forth during our lives, sometimes happy, occasionally depressed or very anxious; mostly well balanced but with moody moments; usually in touch with reality, but at times detached or even psychotic. When we separate ourselves and imagine humanity divided into two different groups, we hurt those labelled as sick, ill, even mad. We allow stigma, prejudice and exclusion to ruin potentially good and creative lives. But we also hurt ourselves, because we stress ourselves out with false smiles and the suppression of our own vulnerabilities. Don't be afraid of your vulnerability, your sensitivity, your mad side. Be bold, and, if you've ever had your own experience of some kind of mental health issue, whether or not you were diagnosed....... get yourself the SMILEY TEARY BADGE
There is no them and us THERE'S ONLY US
- Order the badge at www.buttonbadges.co.uk — 20 badges for £10 (Just quote 'SMILEY TEARY BADGE' (you don't need to send them the image)
- Give the badges to your friends. Keep one for yourself. Think about the implications.
- Monday May 11th (the start of Mental Health Awareness Week) put on your badge. Wear it all week. Find other badge-wearers. And talk to each other. We all have something in common. They are ONLY US
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MAY 16th INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST PSYCHIATRIC ELECTROSHOCK LONDON PROTEST
Electroshock can be given against your will in the UK and Worldwide.
(Please, see leaflet and press release attached)
Date: Saturday May 16, 2015; Time: 14:00 until 18:00
Place: Houses of Parliament (Old Palace Yard - behind Westminster Abbey) London SW1P 3JY
Contact: Cheryl Prax speakoutagainstpsychiatry@gmail.com 07961 852 913
On May 16, 2015, from 2pm until 6pm, there will be a demonstration at the Houses of Parliament (Old Palace Yard - behind Westminster Abbey) London SW1P 3JY against Electroshock as a psychiatric ‘treatment’. The demonstration will be part of a coordinated international event involving over thirty cities in nine countries on the same day. This historic event has been organized by three shock survivors: Ted Chabasinski from California, Debra Schwartzkopff from Oregon, and Mary Maddock from Ireland. Protests will begin in Rotorua, New Zealand, early on May 16, and end many hours later at an evening forum to be held in New York City.
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R.D. Laing 50: June 7th, Cafe Oto
In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Philadelphia Association’s residency at Kingsley Hall in Bow, London, R.D. LAING 50 will explore some of their radical approaches to anti-psychiatry through conversation, film, and music.
The evening will bring together practitioners from Kingsley Hall, and artists who have researched and been inspired by its specific time/space.
Joining us on the evening:
Luke Fowler - screening of 'What You See Is Where You're At' and Q&A
Dr Leon Redler - 'My Time At Kingsley Hall' talk and Q&A
Dr Joseph Berke - 'Mary and Joseph' talk and Q&A
The Bohman Brothers - Composition commissioned for the event
Blue On Blue - 'I LOVE them, for they are my friends' - Mary Barnes inspired project commissioned for the event
For full listing information and ticket link, please visit: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rd-laing-50/
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Asylum, Film screening and discussion, Friday 12 June 6.30pm
Venue: Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, London, E3 3HJ
Tube: Bromley By Bow, DLR Bow Church Buses: 25, 8,108, S2
Time: Arrive 6.30pm, Screening begins 7pm, followed by a discussion about the film
Cost: By donation.
“Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” – R.D. Laing
Celebrating 50 years since the start of the radical therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall.
Both influential and infamous, psychiatrist R.D. Laing’s critique of conventional psychiatric treatments gained significant visibility and attention in the 1960’s and 70’s. His passionate voice drew attention to the dehumanising psychiatric treatment of vulnerable patients and generated an intellectual and cultural polemic reaching far beyond the psychiatric community. His experimental and alternative therapeutic communities - where the distinction between patient and therapist was dropped - were the source of both criticism and inspiration. Filmed by Peter Robinson, Asylum documents their experiences at the Archway Community in North London.
Contact:
Rebecca Greenslade E: rebeccagreenslade@hotmail.co.uk
Nat Fonnesu E: f.e.e.l.campaign@gmail.com
Organised in collaboration with Friend of East End Loonies and R.D. Laing in the 21st Century Reading Group and the Kingsley Hall. Supported by Claremont Project.
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The Italian Riviera Project has invited us to share their information about the educational and recreational respite breaks they provide on a self-help basis for disabled persons and their carers, supported by Community Action Southwark. For info email italianrivieraproject@yahoo.com or check goo.gl/wWXmCK
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Inspirational Links To Save The Male of The Species - Raising Awareness
(By kind email from a Friend)
My dad has just been in and out of hospital due to Septicaemia bought about by my dad not eating due to grief for the death of our mum; basically possible attempted suicide by neglect. In trying to support my dad and my brother who has ‘Power of Attorney’ to make decisions I found all these useful links. Please pass them on.
I thought some of these links may either be of use to you or your relatives (bereavement and counselling) or for any of your friends, children, members, students or colleagues. I was so shocked that suicide is the single biggest killer for most age ranges of men. Inspired by the programme I want to share it with as many people to promote and support all men’s wellbeing as I would women’s wellbeing.
Interestingly CALM – ‘The Campaign Against Miserable Living’ was created by men from the north east. No man need to go through stuff alone. This was what I sent my brother; who knows it may help him too.
Here are some possibly helpful links In answer to dad’s view ‘it’s all hippy shit’. Backed up by science – opening up saves male lives. Enjoy -
Here is a link to a very interesting documentary on male suicide by Panorama.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05rcrx0/panorama-a-suicide-in-the-family
This is CALM – THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY – looking at and promoting good male mental health by men for men. This campaign was promoted in the programme www.thecalmzone.net
Open to Hope – Expressing grief
www.opentohope.com
The Counselling Directory – Berevement
www.counselling-directory.org.uk/bereavement.html
Cruse Bereavement Care
www.cruse.org.uk
NHS Dealing with Bereavement
www.nhs.uk/livewell/bereavement/pages/coping-with-bereavement.aspx
Maytree suicide support
www.maytree.org.uk
The Open Dialogue event the other week brought along a good number of like-minded participants to our quest of effective and humane mental health services.
Dr Razzaque updated us about the OD pilot that was recently completed by the NELFT and three other trusts. It was a great shame to find out that our trust in East London apparently had not shown interest to get involved, when invited to take part to the pilot.
Nick Putman brought along with him a few trainees, fresh from the Open Dialogue UK training that week, and it was inspiring to hear that some of them are service users themselves. A very pleasant Adrian Laing, which came along to check out the event, was invited to join the team on stage for a much appreciated impromptu contribution.
Myra has suggested for the Kingsley Hall to be used as a base for this type of training to develop and as Liam Kirk said, the Open Dialogue seems to be returning to its spiritual home.
Most of us have already heard and seen enough of the obsolete system which, funded on terror and damaging dependency to medication, has been patronising the services for far long with poor results.
We really wish to see this new movement take shape and for the ripple to bring real benefits to people asap.
Notes of most of the event are available to share; send us a message if you wish to have a copy. A photo album can be viewed here goo.gl/BKcyrM
FEEL was on a local paper recently as some of our poets and Friends will be contributing to the closing Cabaret event of The Expert View, a micro festival by Bobby Baker and the Daily Life Ltd team. Please do check all the events of the festival that will take place between Thu 7th and Fri 8th exploring ‘expertise’ in arts and mental health from the perspectives of all involved dailylifeltd.co.uk/the-expert-view-a-micro-festival-save-the-dates/
To follow, please find a few interesting and important dates for your diary and find attached Word file with details of the just published Poetry Express e-magazine No.48 from Survivors' Poetry.
The next FEEL monthly meeting is on Monday the 18th of May at LARC. Join us if you can.
--------------------------------
Next week between the 11th and the 17th is mental health awareness week.
Also time to use the SMILEY TEARY BADGE. The "ONLY US" campaign can be now followed on Twitter
"There's "them" — and then there's "us". They are mentally ill and dangerous We are well, happy and safe"
Is this really true? Or is the uncomfortable truth that there's a continuum, a scale along which we all slide back and forth during our lives, sometimes happy, occasionally depressed or very anxious; mostly well balanced but with moody moments; usually in touch with reality, but at times detached or even psychotic. When we separate ourselves and imagine humanity divided into two different groups, we hurt those labelled as sick, ill, even mad. We allow stigma, prejudice and exclusion to ruin potentially good and creative lives. But we also hurt ourselves, because we stress ourselves out with false smiles and the suppression of our own vulnerabilities. Don't be afraid of your vulnerability, your sensitivity, your mad side. Be bold, and, if you've ever had your own experience of some kind of mental health issue, whether or not you were diagnosed....... get yourself the SMILEY TEARY BADGE
There is no them and us THERE'S ONLY US
- Order the badge at www.buttonbadges.co.uk — 20 badges for £10 (Just quote 'SMILEY TEARY BADGE' (you don't need to send them the image)
- Give the badges to your friends. Keep one for yourself. Think about the implications.
- Monday May 11th (the start of Mental Health Awareness Week) put on your badge. Wear it all week. Find other badge-wearers. And talk to each other. We all have something in common. They are ONLY US
--------------------------------
MAY 16th INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST PSYCHIATRIC ELECTROSHOCK LONDON PROTEST
Electroshock can be given against your will in the UK and Worldwide.
(Please, see leaflet and press release attached)
Date: Saturday May 16, 2015; Time: 14:00 until 18:00
Place: Houses of Parliament (Old Palace Yard - behind Westminster Abbey) London SW1P 3JY
Contact: Cheryl Prax speakoutagainstpsychiatry@gmail.com 07961 852 913
On May 16, 2015, from 2pm until 6pm, there will be a demonstration at the Houses of Parliament (Old Palace Yard - behind Westminster Abbey) London SW1P 3JY against Electroshock as a psychiatric ‘treatment’. The demonstration will be part of a coordinated international event involving over thirty cities in nine countries on the same day. This historic event has been organized by three shock survivors: Ted Chabasinski from California, Debra Schwartzkopff from Oregon, and Mary Maddock from Ireland. Protests will begin in Rotorua, New Zealand, early on May 16, and end many hours later at an evening forum to be held in New York City.
--------------------------------
R.D. Laing 50: June 7th, Cafe Oto
In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Philadelphia Association’s residency at Kingsley Hall in Bow, London, R.D. LAING 50 will explore some of their radical approaches to anti-psychiatry through conversation, film, and music.
The evening will bring together practitioners from Kingsley Hall, and artists who have researched and been inspired by its specific time/space.
Joining us on the evening:
Luke Fowler - screening of 'What You See Is Where You're At' and Q&A
Dr Leon Redler - 'My Time At Kingsley Hall' talk and Q&A
Dr Joseph Berke - 'Mary and Joseph' talk and Q&A
The Bohman Brothers - Composition commissioned for the event
Blue On Blue - 'I LOVE them, for they are my friends' - Mary Barnes inspired project commissioned for the event
For full listing information and ticket link, please visit: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rd-laing-50/
--------------------------------
Asylum, Film screening and discussion, Friday 12 June 6.30pm
Venue: Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, London, E3 3HJ
Tube: Bromley By Bow, DLR Bow Church Buses: 25, 8,108, S2
Time: Arrive 6.30pm, Screening begins 7pm, followed by a discussion about the film
Cost: By donation.
“Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” – R.D. Laing
Celebrating 50 years since the start of the radical therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall.
Both influential and infamous, psychiatrist R.D. Laing’s critique of conventional psychiatric treatments gained significant visibility and attention in the 1960’s and 70’s. His passionate voice drew attention to the dehumanising psychiatric treatment of vulnerable patients and generated an intellectual and cultural polemic reaching far beyond the psychiatric community. His experimental and alternative therapeutic communities - where the distinction between patient and therapist was dropped - were the source of both criticism and inspiration. Filmed by Peter Robinson, Asylum documents their experiences at the Archway Community in North London.
Contact:
Rebecca Greenslade E: rebeccagreenslade@hotmail.co.uk
Nat Fonnesu E: f.e.e.l.campaign@gmail.com
Organised in collaboration with Friend of East End Loonies and R.D. Laing in the 21st Century Reading Group and the Kingsley Hall. Supported by Claremont Project.
--------------------------------
The Italian Riviera Project has invited us to share their information about the educational and recreational respite breaks they provide on a self-help basis for disabled persons and their carers, supported by Community Action Southwark. For info email italianrivieraproject@yahoo.com or check goo.gl/wWXmCK
--------------------------------
Inspirational Links To Save The Male of The Species - Raising Awareness
(By kind email from a Friend)
My dad has just been in and out of hospital due to Septicaemia bought about by my dad not eating due to grief for the death of our mum; basically possible attempted suicide by neglect. In trying to support my dad and my brother who has ‘Power of Attorney’ to make decisions I found all these useful links. Please pass them on.
I thought some of these links may either be of use to you or your relatives (bereavement and counselling) or for any of your friends, children, members, students or colleagues. I was so shocked that suicide is the single biggest killer for most age ranges of men. Inspired by the programme I want to share it with as many people to promote and support all men’s wellbeing as I would women’s wellbeing.
Interestingly CALM – ‘The Campaign Against Miserable Living’ was created by men from the north east. No man need to go through stuff alone. This was what I sent my brother; who knows it may help him too.
Here are some possibly helpful links In answer to dad’s view ‘it’s all hippy shit’. Backed up by science – opening up saves male lives. Enjoy -
Here is a link to a very interesting documentary on male suicide by Panorama.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05rcrx0/panorama-a-suicide-in-the-family
This is CALM – THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY – looking at and promoting good male mental health by men for men. This campaign was promoted in the programme www.thecalmzone.net
Open to Hope – Expressing grief
www.opentohope.com
The Counselling Directory – Berevement
www.counselling-directory.org.uk/bereavement.html
Cruse Bereavement Care
www.cruse.org.uk
NHS Dealing with Bereavement
www.nhs.uk/livewell/bereavement/pages/coping-with-bereavement.aspx
Maytree suicide support
www.maytree.org.uk
Friday, 24 April 2015
Open Dialogue PROGRAMME for today
Kingsley Hall, Powis Roads, Bow, E3 3HJ
Friday 24th April 2015 7.00 – 9.00 PM
PROGRAMME
19:00 - 19:10: Opening and brief introductions about/from:
- History of Kingsley Hall
- The LifeHouse Project
- 'Only Us' campaign
19:10 - 19:30: Dr Russell Razzaque (Consultant Psychiatrist, ELNFT, POD - Peer-supported Open Dialogue)
19:30 - 19:45: Q&A with Dr Razzaque
19:50 – 20:05: Interval with music provided by English folk group The Mudlarks and Poetry by David Kessel and Madeline Kenley
20:05 - 20:25 Nick Putman (Open Dialogue UK, Soteria) and Open Dialogue training team and experts from Finland
20:25 - 20:55 Q&A with Nick Putman, Dr Razzaque and the future OD practitioners - questions taken from the floor
20:55 - 21:00 Conclusions and End
Blog: friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.co.uk
Email: f.e.e.l.campaign@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/feel.campaign
Donations welcome to cover costs. Thank you!
HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY
Friday 24th April 2015 7.00 – 9.00 PM
PROGRAMME
19:00 - 19:10: Opening and brief introductions about/from:
- History of Kingsley Hall
- The LifeHouse Project
- 'Only Us' campaign
19:10 - 19:30: Dr Russell Razzaque (Consultant Psychiatrist, ELNFT, POD - Peer-supported Open Dialogue)
19:30 - 19:45: Q&A with Dr Razzaque
19:50 – 20:05: Interval with music provided by English folk group The Mudlarks and Poetry by David Kessel and Madeline Kenley
20:05 - 20:25 Nick Putman (Open Dialogue UK, Soteria) and Open Dialogue training team and experts from Finland
20:25 - 20:55 Q&A with Nick Putman, Dr Razzaque and the future OD practitioners - questions taken from the floor
20:55 - 21:00 Conclusions and End
Blog: friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.co.uk
Email: f.e.e.l.campaign@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/feel.campaign
Donations welcome to cover costs. Thank you!
HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY
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