Upcoming ISPS Conferences

(and other events in the field of psychosis)

Australia/New Zealand

 

Voices Vic 2012 Conference: Voices, Conversations & Transformations - Diverse Approaches to Recovery 23rd - 24th February 2012, Storey Hall, RMIT University, 342 Swanston St, Melbourne.  Website: www.voicesvic.org.au

The 13th International Mental Health Conference will take place 6th-8th August 2012 at the Outrigger Inn (formerly Holiday Inn), Gold Coast, Qld. Website: www.anzmh.asn.au/conference

The first joint ISPS-NZ/ISPS-Australia Conference Valuing Subjective Experience will be held August 29-31st 2012; University of Auckland. Speakers include Melissa Taitimu, Robert Schweitzer, Debra Lampshire, Jim Geekie, Kellie Comans, Vanessa Beavan, Liz McNamara, Patte Randal, John Read, Ingo Lambrecht.   For further information contact ispsnz@gmail.com or visit www.isps.org/australia

Croatia

The 17th ISPS Croatia School of Psychotherapy of Psychoses will take place in the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 17.19, 2012. The main topic is: Individualized Treatment for Psychosis: What Works for Whom? The official language is English. For further information go to www.iuc.hr

Denmark

General assembly February 27, 2012, Copenhagen. Seminar by Susanne Harder on developmental psychology March 8, 2012, Aarhus. Contact: mail@bettinajaeger.dk

Italy

Our founding Conference of ISPS-Italy June 8-9, 2012 in Perugia is titled Psychoanalysis, Neurosciences, Art and Social Therapies: Needs and limits of an encounter in the integrated treatment of psychoses. Speakers include Brian Martindale (keynote), Brian Koehler, Julie Kipp, Stefano Bolognini, Vittorio Gallese, Maurizio Peciccia. Contact Maurizio.peciccia@unipg.it

Sweden

Our general Meeting on March 16, 2012 in Gothenburg is titled Alliance-Compliance: Participation in encounters in the treatment of psychosis looked upon from  different aspects. Contact ispssverige@gmail.com 

Switzerland

Our 6th congress on June 1, 2012 in Bellelay is titled Building and Rebuilding Links. Speakers include M de Pater, Christine Clare,Dag Söderström. Contact  dsoderstrom@bluewin.ch

UK

Our residential conference Changing Realities: New developments in psychological approaches to psychosis will be October 2-3, 2012, in Birmingham. Speakers include: Alison Brabban, Jacqui Dillon, Gráinne Fadden, Chris Holman, Glenn Roberts, Jaakko Seikkula.   Deadline for submissions 31st January 2012. Contact   admin@ispsuk.org or go to www.ispsuk.org for further information.

USA

The 2012 annual meeting will take place in Chicago October 26-28 and is titled Making Contact with the Depths: Psychosis as it is Lived. Danielle Bergeron is keynote speaker and we will honor Jim Gottstein of Alaska for his work opposing forced psychiatric drugging and ECT. Visit  www.isps-us.org