‘Therapeutic Living with Other People’s Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care’ is ready to go on the road (March 1-15), and is looking for venues. With the funding and support of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre and the Heritage Lottery Fund the ‘Therapeutic Living with Other People’s Children’ [...]
The North Staffs Personality Disorder Service User Network’s Newsletter is now available. Written and produced by service users, the newsletter’s aim is to be useful and inspiring for service users, carers and those who work with people with PD. The lead story opens the debate on the PD label – does it help, provide hope [...]
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 [...]
www.mentalhealthy.co.uk is launching the UK’s first ‘Mental Health Hero’ awards to recognise the unsung heroes of mental health. Teaming up with Emergence and three mental health charities SANE, The Mental Health Foundation and The Centre for Mental Health, Mental Healthy aims to give credit and recognition to those who have contributed to the field of [...]
“The theme for News 62 is Wounded Healers and pages 2 and 3 speak of two famous healers who have overcome their own sufferings and used their experiences to develop very effective approaches for those who have attracted a personality disorder diagnosis. Page 3 of this issue also has news about Haven Website updates, including [...]
Mental health and Justice is a major two year research project funded by the Big Lottery Fund and led by Victim Support. The research is investigating whether people with mental health problems are more likely to be victims of crime. It is also exploring the barriers people with mental health problems face to reporting crime [...]
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 Impact Project* has been running for over a year, attached Newsletter Oct-Dec 10 is an update of what has been achieved since the project was initiated, and an outline of the plans for the future. “We have been really busy since the project was fully implemented in September 2009 and have taken 26 frontline [...]