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This September 2022 Drop the Disorder are continuing to make waves and share common sense to the masses about why the current diagnostic mental health system is so harmful.
With world- renowned speakers, including Professor Joanna Moncrieff who has splashed media headlines recently with research which capsizes the chemical imbalance theory, this is an event not- to- be missed.
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Hosts:
Dr Lucy Johnstone, Jo Watson, John Wilson, Dr Akima Thomas
Schedule:
9am BST John Wilson – Open and welcome
Jo Watson – Introduction to the festival.
Dr Lucy Johnstone – The critique of psychiatric diagnosis and why we need a better way forward.
Matt Ball & Indigo Daya – Activists for change in Austrailia
Dr Margot Sunderland – On trauma informed work in schools.
Panel discussion – Psychiatric Drugs
Prof John Read
Stevie Lewis
Zev Faith
Prof Joanna Moncrieff
Dr Rani Bora
Dr James Davies – The Politics of Distress – How the mental health sector came to serve Neoliberalism.
Dr Gabor Mate – A Conversation about Gabor’s new book “The Myth Of Normal”
Panel Discussion – Is climate change making us crazy?
Dr Lucy Johnstone
Annie Mitchell
Gareth Morgan
Carla Denyer
Dr Khadj Rouf
Dr Akima Thomas OBE – Title to be confirmed
Bob Whitaker – The Scientific Collapse of the DSM’s Model of Care
Panel discussion – Are we on the brink of change?
Prof Peter Kinderman
Rebecca Donaldson
Hári Sewell
James Barnes
Keynote presentation by Dr Jacqui Dillon – First Do No Harm – a keynote talk on iatrogenic harm.
Reframing Mental distress as a potential catalyst for positive change 