Online Festival set to transform the harmful Neoliberal approach to Mental Distress – 16th Sept 2022

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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.

Please sign up to join us and please help to spread the word as much as possible.

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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.

Close of day – 5.30pm

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