This year, for the first time, the British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder Annual Conference will be held in Manchester. Home to over 20 Nobel Prize winners, Manchester is where the atom was first ‘split’ and where the first modern computer was built. The conference (March 21-23) will take place in [...]
BIGSPD was formed in 2000 and is a focus for academic and professional networking in the field of personality disorder. The main event each year is a conference with international speakers presenting new research findings and clinical approaches to personality disorders. Previous meetings have been held in London, Leicester, Jersey, Dublin, Cardiff, Glasgow, Nottingham, Cambridge [...]
An action packed day awaits the 150 delegates* attending Emergence’s first Open Day on Friday July 8. The day will start with a keynote presentation from Meredith Vivian OBE, Emergence’s newest recruit. For many years Meredith was Deputy Director of Mental Health Care Pathways at the Department of Health. This will be followed with a [...]
Emergence, the national service user-led organisation which support everyone affected by personality disorder, is holding its first ever Open Day on July 8. The day is for anyone interested in becoming involved with Emergence, finding out about the work they do, looking for new employment opportunities or interested in exploring how the organisation can support [...]
Dr Hanna Pickard, Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and All Souls College gave a thought provoking lecture at the 11th Annual Conference of the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder exploring why we should turn to Aristotle to better understand personality disorder. We [...]
The Government’s National Personality Disorder Programme – past, present and future – is the subject of a plenary session at this year’s BIGSPD (British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) on Friday March 25 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Speaking are Nick Benefield, Rex Haigh, Nick Joseph, Kath Lovell and Lisa Wilson. [...]
The British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) is holding its 11th Annual Conference from March 23-25, 2011 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Registration is now open. Formed in 2000, BIGSPD is a focus for academic and professional networking in the field of personality disorder. The two-day conference is already [...]
Childhood trauma as a result of abuse is frequently the catalyst for ongoing mental health related problems in adulthood. Statistics about trauma and adult mental health issues make shocking reading. The impacts of trauma are far-reaching, touching every part of survivors’ lives. Social problems such as homelessness, physical manifestations such as self-harm and eating disorders [...]
The Andrew Sims Centre has recently published its updated programme of events for Autumn 2010. Please follow the link to their website which has more information on all the forthcoming events:www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk A number of topics will be covered in the Autumn events including: ‘Recent Advances in the Management of Eating Disorders’ ‘Moving Forward with CPD [...]
Re-offending in troubled and aggressive young people can be significantly cut using a pioneering new mental health approach known as Multisystemic Therapy, a UK conference was told recently. Reporting on the initial findings of the first UK evaluation pilot, researchers found in families with multiple problems that the use of Multisystemic Therapy or MST reduced [...]