Asylum Events

SWAN Conference in Liverpool, March 2012

Asylum will be attending the SWAN conference in Liverpool in March 2012. Come and visit our stall or attend an Asylum talk at Liverpool Hope University, 30-31 March, 2012.

Asylum will be at Tent City University, Occupy London, 29th January 2012

January 29th, 2012 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Tent City Uni
Description: Speakers China Mills and colleagues will start the discussion
China Mills is involved with Asylum magazine for democratic psychiatry based in Manchester (www.asylumonline.net) and will talk about the magazine and her work. She says: “I'm interested in the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry in understanding people's distress, and particularly how distress caused by economic reforms, and Structural adjustment policies gets re-interpreted through bio-psychiatry and Big Pharma as 'mental illness', meaning the site of intervention and transformation is the individual brain, usually through medications, glossing over socio-political conditions. I have spent some time in India, exploring these issues, and also working with grassroots mental health organisations, and running workshops on the survivor movement and on hearing voices.”

Asylum Stall at the Manchester and Salford Anarchist Book Fair, Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Drop by the Asylum stall at the anarchist book fair this Saturday between 10am and 4pm. We'll be sharing a stall with the Disability Action Network.

Asylum Talk at Manchester Metropolitan University, November 23rd, 2011

This session, chaired by China Mills and with guest speakers William Park from Preston and Dean Smith from Fleetwood focused on why struggles in the field of mental health are part of the field of critical psychology, describing the work of the radical magazine ‘Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry’

Asylum at the University of Huddersfield, November 2011

Asylum members gave a talk at the University of Huddersfield.

Asylum Workshop at the OK Cafe, Manchester, Tuesday, 23rd October 2011

Asylum gave a workshop and discussion session on why mental health politics should matter to anti-capitalists.

Asylum Conference, Manchester, September 14-15, 2011

Asylum Collective and our friends and supporters in the Critical Psychiatry Network, Hearing Voices Network and Psychology Politics Resistance met to discuss alternatives to pathological labels of ‘mental illness’.

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