25th INPP Conference in Vienna

The International Conference on Crisis and Mental Health - philosophical and social aesthetic perspectives, organized by the International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP), is pleased to announce its 25th edition, to be held at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria. Due to late rescheduling of another international conference in Vienna the conference will now take place from May 23-25, 2024.

June 26, 2023

Rehumanising Healthcare: a multidisciplinary event

Hosted by the The Human Values in Healthcare Forum. This event aims to provide a reflective ‘holding’ space to allow health and care professionals and others from different disciplines to connect, converse and to share stories, ideas, practical skills and resources. We will also hear from practitioners stories of overcoming difficulties in adversity.

May 30, 2023

Care and Spirituality

In this talk, we will discuss Mozi (墨子, c. 470 BCE – c. 391 BCE), an intellectual figure during the Warring States period in ancient China. He advocated for the philosophy of Impartial Care, also referred to as Universal Love (兼愛, jian'ai), which posited that all actions should be grounded in the notion of undiscriminating care.

May 15, 2023

New publication – Values and race equality in mental health

This article draws on philosophical value theory to interpret the lived experience of racial inequalities in mental health, thereby pointing the way to co-production as the basis of improved clinical care.

May 9, 2023

Restricted! – Article in Disability Review Magazine

A new article published in Disability Review Magazine by the Lead for Values-based Social Care, Peter Lyne.

May 9, 2023

Phenomenology of Hallucinations

The registration for the second lecture of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series third season is open. We will be honoured to host Massimiliano Aragona with a talk titled: "Phenomenology of Hallucinations”

May 3, 2023

INPP Conference postponed to May 2024

Due to late rescheduling of another international conference in Vienna, we regret to inform you that the upcoming INPP Conference has been postponed to May (02.05.2024-04.05.2024) next year. We understand the inconvenience this may cause and apologize for any disruption to your plans.

April 23, 2023

The Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series

The Institute of Applied Psychology (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) together with its partners are pleased to announce the third edition of "The Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series."

March 8, 2023

Ruth Devaraj

Ruth Devaraj has joined the Collaborating Centre’s management team as Centre administrator from 1st March 2023.

March 7, 2023

New publication added to the Wiki VBP Reference Library. Quality Versus Quantity of Life: Beyond the Dichotomy

A restrictive and dichotomous question has become the primary approach in many goals of care discussions. Is the primary goal of care quantity of life through aggressive therapy or quality of life through comfort care and hospice?

February 7, 2023

Meaningful Voices: Fostering Epistemic Justice in Public Mental Health

The focus of this pilot research co-creation is identifying and overcoming epistemic injustice, a complex set of harms and wrongs that may affect vulnerable groups and individuals. In tandem with Values-Based Practice and through innovative philosophical approaches, we will aim to develop, test and document, new collaborative strategies for identifying and overcoming epistemic injustices in mental health and social care where these can be especially pernicious.

February 2, 2023

25^th Annual Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry

The call for papers for the 25th Annual Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry has now been launched. The theme is Crisis and Mental Health – philosophical and social aesthetic perspectives.

January 12, 2023

Talking about Dying – Help in facing death and dying

These days modern medicine can save and extend life - but not always. Individuals, their families, friends and too often medical professionals seek to extend life at any cost to its quality. When the inevitable happens, the process of dying and death itself can be very difficult. As a society we need to contemplate and make preparation for our own individual deaths.

January 11, 2023

New Newsletter – Psychiatry at the Margins

December 6, 2022

RCPsych – Philosophy Special Interest Group Conference 2022: biopsychosocial model revisited; myth and reality

November 16, 2022

On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind

October 12, 2022

Finding Our Social Model

We thank Peter Lyne for the opportunity to write this editorial and welcome his generous offer of on-going collaboration Fulfilling the promise of its title, in its first seven years our Centre has established wide-ranging collaborations with over 300 individuals and organisations. Our shared vision of values-based practice (VBP) is to find more effective ways of working with the diverse individual values – the diversity of what matters or is important to each of us as unique individuals – in healthcare.

August 22, 2022

Joint Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) and the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych, UK).

July 18, 2022

CORESS Annual Educational Symposium of 2022

July 4, 2022

Reading Group, ‘Live & Unplugged Conversations on Birth’, online/ University of Oxford/ Complutense University of Madrid, from October 2022 to June 2023

Live & Unplugged Conversations on Birth is where philosophy translates in clinical practice and lively conversations begin. In this exploratory laboratory, we will bridge traditional silos between reproductive care and philosophy. We have the opportunity here to also create participatory values-based practice in childbirth for all to enrich us all.

June 15, 2022

St Catherine's College Oxford

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