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Asylum! Conference and Festival
Manchester 10th - 12th September 2008
Elizabeth Gaskell Campus Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
This is an Asylum conference co-organised by Asylum Associates, the Discourse Unit, Hearing Voices Network and Paranoia Network, with the participating sponsorship of Campaign Against the Schizophrenia Label, UCLAN Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health, PCCS Books, Intervoice and Working to Recovery.
The conference will bring together organisations, activists, campaigners and academics working for radical challenge and change in mental health.
It will showcase critical work on psychiatry and psychology (‘Big Psy’) and the pharmaceutical industry (‘Big Pharma’), and alternatives to diagnostic medical labels like ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘paranoia’.
The conference will run alongside a festival of organisations working for a better world.
There will be guest speakers, academic papers, panel discussions, bookstalls, film, art, music and workshops.
For more information & booking :-
www.discourseunit.com/asylum.doc