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Living Life Beyond Diagnosis - a free conference

Living Life Beyond Diagnosis – a free conference

December 15, 2016 | Events | Share your views

This free one day conference, in association with the BPS, provides an opportunity to explore the value of, and problems with, psychiatric diagnosis.

Tags: Change, Conference, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Society

BPS Launches 'Understanding Psychosis & Schizophrenia'

BPS Launches ‘Understanding Psychosis & Schizophrenia’

December 15, 2014 | News | Share your views

On 27 November, The British Psychological Society launched a landmark report aimed at the general public on ‘Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia’. This report, that mentions peer support and the Hearing Voices Network, with its pages presents a human and contextual understanding of the diverse experiences that can be diagnosed as psychosis. Edited by Anna Cook, […]

Tags: Diagnosis, Psychosis, Recovery, Schizophrenia, Treatment

Press Release: HVN Launches Debate on DSM 5

May 20, 2013 | News | Share your views

It’s the Bad Things that Happen to you that can Drive you Crazy! The Hearing Voices Network in England has issued a position statement on DSM 5 and the wide issue of psychiatric diagnoses following last week’s debate on the need for a new paradigm in mental health services, reported largely as a ‘turf war’ […]

Tags: Critical Psychiatry, Diagnosis, DSM 5, Press Release

Eleanor Longden Speaks Out: TED@London

July 11, 2012 | News | 3 Comments

Eleanor Longden, speaking live at the TED@London Talent Search, explains how she has transformed her relationship with her voices and taken control of her life. In this powerful short clip, Eleanor explains how a diagnosis of schizophrenia and the view of voices as a symptom led her to take an ‘agressive stance’ against her own […]

Tags: Diagnosis, Eleanor Longden, Recovery, Testimony

Surviving Diagnosis

June 3, 2012 | Personal Experiences | 5 Comments

Contributed by Jo Twist I was given a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia nearly twenty years ago. Although this was initially a relief, it gradually became a problem in itself. The diagnosis serves to explain to yourself, family and friends why you have been behaving like this for so long, in my case for the last four […]

Tags: Diagnosis, Medication, Poetry, Schizophrenia, Survival

Contribute to the ‘Schizophrenia’ Commission’

June 1, 2012 | News | 2 Comments

They want a range of views (including non-medical ones!) The ‘Schizophrenia’ Commission, launched by mental health charity Rethink, is currently gathering evidence from people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, those who work in the area and researchers. On 13 March, they put a special request out to encourage those who do not believe ‘schizophrenia’ […]

Tags: Diagnosis, Schizophrenia, Survey

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