St Dymphna Seminar 2013, Manchester

The St Dymphna Seminars was created in 2012 to provide a safe and open environment for those with an interest in mental health to  discuss issues relating to practice and experience. Inspired by the models of community care in traditions established at Gheel, the seminars aim to educate and reveal aspects of living with mental illness and perspectives on predominant models and treatments that are rarely shared. It is hoped that these seminars will also provide an arena for conflicting stances to witness the reality behind the ideology.

Here is t link to the website. 

http://theswordandfettereddevil.wordpress.com/about/

DSM 5 Is Guide Not Bible—Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes

This article appeared in Psychology today. Though the DSM is primarily American it's influence can be felt around the world. While suffering is universal mental illness isn't. Some of the diagnosis in the DSM are not universal. Those conditions do not exist in certain cultures as they pre condition that facilitate the development of some mental illness don't exist.


DSM 5 Is Guide Not Bible—Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes