CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION OF 20 YEARS OF PCCS BOOKS

16th October 201310.00 am–4.30 pm

Clarendon Suites, Edgbaston, Birmingham B16 9SB

PCCS Books is celebrating 20 years of independent publishing this year with a one-day conference bringing together experts in their fields who share the desire for honest, democratic, equal and fully informed care for people in distress.

The speakers represent the dominant themes in PCCS Books’ lists: person-centred psychology, critical psychology and psychiatry, and service-user perspectives.

SpeakersRichard Bentall

Professor of Psychology, University of Liverpool

Mick CooperProfessor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde

Jacqui DillonChair of Hearing Voices Network, England

Stephen JosephProfessor of Psychology, Health and Social Care, University of Nottingham

Joanna MoncrieffSenior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University College London and Co-chair of the Critical Psychiatry Network

Lisbeth SommerbeckClient-centred clinical psychologist, accredited specialist in psychotherapy, Danish Psychological Association

For service users, carers, professionals, students and everyone interested in critical debate on mental health care

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Shared Practice in Non-medicalised Mental Health CareRichard Bentall: The myth that schizophrenia is a genetic diseaseThe idea that schizophrenia is an inherited disease has been treated as an axiom rather than a hypothesis throughout the history of psychiatry. Recent expensively funded attempts to find the molecular basis of schizophrenia have been justified by the high heritability coefficient (> 70%) calculated from twin studies. Because this coefficient has been widely misunderstood as a gene/environment causation ratio, high values have been assumed to mean that the causes of schizophrenia are mostly genetic. In fact, heritability means something quite different, and it is possible for environmental factors to be crucial even when heritability approaches 100%. The only way of establishing whether environmental factors are important is to study them. Recent studies have shown very large effects for a number of environmental influences, including exposure to the urban environment, poverty and social inequality, childhood trauma and exposure to victimisation.Richard Bentall is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Liverpool University, takes on far too many tasks, and often lets down his friends as a consequence. He has previously held chairs at the universities of Manchester and Bangor, and is the author of Madness Explained (Penguin, 2003) and Doctoring the Mind (Penguin, 2009).

Mick Cooper: Are the facts friendly? Person-centred therapy in an era of ‘evidence-based’ practiceThis presentation will look at the development, status and future of person-centred therapy in relation to the present calls for evidence-based counselling and psychotherapy. It will critically examine the current evidence base for the approach, and discuss some of the key contemporary developments that are attempting to address present limitations. The presentation will also consider some of the key challenges that face the person-centred community in engaging with the field of research and evidence, and how these can be addressed.Mick Cooper is a Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde and a practising counselling psychologist. He has written and edited a range of books and papers on relational and research-based approaches to therapy, including The Existential Counselling Primer (PCCS Books, 2012) and Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2011).

Jacqui Dillon: The history and work of the Hearing Voices Network – the personal is still politicalThe Hearing Voices Network, inspired by the work of Prof Marius Romme, provides hope for thousands of voice-hearers. It promotes an inclusive approach to mental distress, with the idea that in order to truly understand psychosis we must begin by listening to those who know these experiences from the inside out; the voices and narratives of those who have been condemned as ‘unanalysable’ and mad.Jacqui Dillon is Chair of Hearing Voices Network, England. She is a writer, campaigner, international speaker, trainer and co-editor (with John Read) of the second edition of Models of Madness (Routledge, 2013).

Stephen Joseph: The positive psychology of the person-centred approachOver the last decade the new science of positive psychology has transformed the landscape of psychology with its emphasis on well-being, personal growth and human flourishing. While such ideas have been new to many, the person-centred approach has always been a positive psychology. Today, more than ever, person-centred psychology can offer a positive psychological vision for the helping professions.Stephen Joseph is Professor of Psychology, Health and Social Care at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor (with Richard Worsley) of Person-Centred Psychopathology: A positive psychology of mental health (PCCS, 2005), Person-Centred Practice: Case studies in positive psychology (PCCS, 2007) and What Doesn’t Kill Us: The new psychology of posttraumatic growth (Piatkus, 2013).

Joanna Moncrieff: Mother’s little helper: The politics of consumerism and psychoactive drug useThis talk will look at use of psychoactive drugs through the ages, and draw parallels between the illicit and recreational use of these substances and the use of prescription drugs for mental health problems. The marketing of psychoactive substances by the pharmaceutical industry and their presentation as specific, disease-targeting treatments by the psy professions will be explored, along with the political motivations that demonise self-directed substance use, while promoting paternalistic, medically initiated use.Joanna Moncrieff is Senior Lecturer at UCL and practising consultant psychiatrist in London. She is Co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network and author of The Bitterest Pills: The troubling story of antipsychotic drugs (Palgrave, 2013), The Myth of the Chemical Cure (Palgrave, 2009) and A Straight-talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs (PCCS Books, 2009).

Lisbeth Sommerbeck: Rebutting criticisms of person-centred therapy with people diagnosed with psychosisSeveral popular misconceptions of person-centred therapy will be refuted, including: (1) that person-centred therapy is insufficient or unsuitable for people diagnosed with psychosis, (2) that because person-centred therapy is antithetical to the medical model it cannot be practised in psychiatric settings, and (3) that empathising with, or trying to understand psychotic experience is detrimental to recovery. On the contrary, the positive therapeutic impact of empathic responding in psychotic process will be described.Lisbeth Sommerbeck is a clinical psychologist accredited as a specialist in psychotherapy by the Danish Psychological Association. She has worked in psychiatric settings for 35 years and is now retired. She has written many journal articles and two books, one in English: The Client-Centred Therapist in Psychiatric Contexts: A therapist’s guide to the psychiatric landscape and its inhabitants (PCCS Books, 2003).

Pete Sanders: Towards shared practiceIt will not be news for many to hear that Carl Rogers’ work advocated the demedicalisation of distress over 60 years ago. Contemporary psychological treatments seem to be re-inventing a number of the wheels developed by Rogers in the 1940s and 50s, from research into psychotherapy to the therapeutic potential of human relationships. This talk maps out the co-ordinates of shared practice for the 21st century.Pete Sanders is a Co-director of PCCS Books. He has been talking and writing about this topic for 35 years, and shows no signs of stopping.

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Conference details

Provisional timetable9.30 Registration, refreshments and browse stalls10.30 Maggie Taylor-Sanders Welcome10.45 Pete Sanders Setting the scene for the conference11.00 Jacqui Dillon11.30 Lisbeth Sommerbeck12.00 Richard Bentall12.30 Lunch1.30 Mick Cooper2.00 Joanna Moncrieff2.30 Stephen Joseph3.00 Break - refreshments3.30 Pete Sanders Towards shared practice4.00 Panel4.30 Close

Dates and feesEarlybird rate until 31.08.13: £65.00Full rate from 01.09.13: £75.00Service user rate: £20.00Registration by official purchase order or requiring an invoice incurs an administrative charge of £10.00Fees include refreshments and buffet lunch.

VenueThe Clarendon Suites, 2 Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B16 9SB. See map on page 4 of this leaflet.

AccessibilityThe Clarendon Suites has wheelchair access to all conference rooms and disabled toilets.

TravelSee map on page 4 of this leaflet. Parking: The Clarendon Suites is easily accessible from Junction 3 of the M5, with ample free parking on site. Train: Birmingham New Street station is 2 miles from the venue and accessible by taxi or bus from the city centre.Plane: There are regular train links from Birmingham International Airport to Birmingham New Street station.

AccommodationWe have tried our best to arrange timings so that as many delegates as possible can travel to and from the conference in one day. If you need to stay in Birmingham before or after the conference, the Clarendon Suites conference centre is located just off Hagley Road within walking distance of hotels to suit all budgets.

ProfitsWe are planning this as a not-for-profit event, however, if it is particularly well subscribed, any profits from the conference will go to Soteria Network UK: www.soterianetwork.org.uk

Organisations represented at the conferenceWe have asked organisations with which PCCS Books has special affiliations to bring a stand and publicity to the conference:

Association for Humanistic Psychology in BritainAsylum CollectiveBritish Association for the Person-Centred ApproachCritical Psychiatry NetworkHearing Voices NetworkInternational Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to PsychosisSoteria Network UKWorld Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling

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