AD4E online festival on September 18th.
We will be bringing together allies from all over the world for 14 hours of talks-poetry-interviews-presentations-videos-drama-panel-music, all challenging the pathologising of emotional distress.
Dip in and out at your leisure. Most of it will be recorded so that registrants can watch at a later date.
This is a fundraising event with a minimum fee of £1 to maximise accessibility. Please make a donation based on what you can afford, so that AD4E can continue its work. After covering costs, funds will go towards our future events, enabling us to offer more low cost or free places for people who can’t afford to pay.
Confirmed contributors:
Dr Lucy Johnstone
Indigo Daya
Dr Akima Thomas
Prof Emmy van Deurzen
Dr Gabor Maté
Ruth Dixon
Paula J Caplan PhD
Pat McArdle
Bob Whitaker
Johann Hari
Mica Gray
Dr Karen Treisman
Michelle Benjamin
Prof Peter Kinderman
Sanah Ahsan
Stevie Lewis
Laura Delano
Dr James Davies
Dr Joanne Cacciatore
Matt Ball
Anita D
James and the Disorders
Prof John Read
Sally-Ann
Viv Gordon
Lydia Daisy
Jo Watson
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Jo Watson (@dropthedisorder) is a psychotherapist and activist with a history in the U.K. Rape Crisis movement of the 1990’s. She has worked therapeutically for the last 24 years with those who have been victims of sexual abuse /violence and has campaigned on women’s survivor issues for the past 3 decades.
Jo actively challenges the biomedical model of ‘mental health’, arguing that emotional distress and suffering is primarily a result of what people have experienced, which all too often arises within social injustices that need to be named. She campaigns against the pathologising of people via the labels of psychiatry and promotes trauma informed responses to emotional distress that help people to tell their stories and make meaning and connections.
Jo is the organiser of the one day event ‘A Disorder For Everyone!’
AD4E platforms a growing team of allies, both professionals and survivors, from around the UK and beyond. It is now in its 3rd year of touring the UK, challenging the ‘diagnosis and disorder’ approach.
Jo presently represents the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) on a steering committee for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence working on creating guidelines for psychological therapists on prescribed psychoactive drugs.
Jo started the facebook group ‘Drop the Disorder!’ in 2016 in order to offer a space for people to discuss related issues that has over 8.5k members worldwide. https://bit.ly/2vUV2dL
She is part of the Mad in the U.K. team www.madintheuk.com
as well as being a founding member of ‘United for Integrity in Mental Health’ (UIMH) due to be launched in 2019.
The AD4E team are Jo Watson, Lucy Johnstone, Nollaig McSwenney & Jacqui Dillon See bios at http://www.adisorder4everyone.com
AD4E is an event committed to accessibility and safety for everyone. Racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic and other disrepectful behaviour is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.
#Emerging Proud supports the work of Jo and her team at AD4E ❤
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