Welcome to ISPS

ISPS is an international organization promoting psychotherapy and psychological treatments for persons with psychosis.
We are committed to advancing education, training and knowledge of mental health professionals in the treatment and prevention of psychotic mental disorders.

We seek to achieve the best possible outcomes for service users by engaging in meaningful partnership with health professionals, service users, families and carers.

Latest News

ISPS Warsaw 2013 - programme now available

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES FOR PSYCHOSIS

ISPS Warsaw Congress

22-25 August 2013

The conference is highly relevant for all interested in psychosis.

Conference inaugural lecture by Professor Yrjö Alanen - ISPS Honorary Lifetime Member
"Individuals fallen ill with schizophrenic psychoses - the least understood persons in our world"

Conference programme now available at http://www.isps2013warsaw.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=116&lang=en

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ISPS changes its name to remove the term schizophrenia

In March 2012 members of the ISPS voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the society's name from the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses to the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. The change comes at a time when the scientific validity of the term schizophrenia is being hotly debated in the lead up to the publication of the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

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Families and Carers

Recommended books for family members

Henry's Demons, by Patrick and Henry Cockburn

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/26/henrys-demons-patrick-henry-cockburn

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1455884197

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Survivors of psychosis

Service users / survivors group

ISPS International maintains an e-mail discussion group for ISPS members who are service users / survivors of psychosis.

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Discussion Groups

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ISPS Journal

The ISPS Journal Psychosis accepts personal and institutional subscriptions. All Individual Members of ISPS and local ISPS group members receive quarterly issues of the journal as a membership benefit.

We have just heard that the the ISPS Journal has been accepted by Web of Science!