Originally posted on: http://www.madinamerica.com/ There was a heart-breaking and disturbing story in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper entitled, My Daughter, the Schizophrenic’, (1) which featured edited extracts from a book written by the father of a child called Jani. He describes how Jani is admitted into a psychiatric hospital when she is 5, diagnosed with schizophrenia when […]
Originally posted on: http://www.madinamerica.com/ I am thrilled to have been invited to write about the important and innovative work of the Hearing Voices Movement alongside so many eminent colleagues, critical thinkers and activists working together to bring about an essential revolution in the world of mental health. We have just celebrated the anniversary of the […]
Special Edition: Complex reactions to severe trauma The paper by Dillon, Johnstone & Longden in this volume (Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment and Neuroscience) brings together evidence from the neuroscience and mental health literature with the hope that this might lead to a paradigm shift in the way that people are seen and helped. Hopefully they are […]
Here is a link to my recent presentation ‘The Personal is the Political’ which was filmed at the Critical Perspectives and Creative Responses to Experiences of Trauma and Distress Conference at University College Cork, Ireland: http://panopto.ucc.ie/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=45a4bb2c-6001-4a66-b5f1-bdec5e120f0e This was a fantastic free event, attended by over 450 people over two days […]
I am thrilled to have been invited to become a foreign correspondent for the Mad in America web site – see: http://www.madinamerica.com/ I will be writing about the important and innovative work of the Hearing Voices Movement alongside many eminent colleagues, critical thinkers and activists working together to bring about an essential revolution in the […]
Hearing Voices Research & Development Fund http://femhc.org/Giving.aspx#Hearing_Voices_Research__Development_Fund The Hearing Voices Research and Development Fund has been established to advance the development of the Hearing Voices Approach in the U.S. The Project was created by Gail A. Hornstein, Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College, and Jacqui Dillon, National Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in […]
Abolish use of formal psychiatric diagnostic systems like ICD & DSM Psychiatric diagnoses are not valid. Use of psychiatric diagnosis increases stigma. Using psychiatric diagnosis does not aid treatment decisions. Long term prognosis for mental health problems has got worse. Psychiatric diagnosis imposes Western beliefs about mental distress on other cultures. Alternative evidence based models […]
Published in The Guardian, 5th July 2011. Mental health campaigners welcome book about schizophrenia. The letters, journals and scribbled observations of David, diagnosed with schizophrenia, have been collated for a new book. By Mary O’Hara Schizophrenia is perhaps the most widely misunderstood and misrepresented of all serious mental illnesses in popular culture and media. So, […]
BBC Breakfast: Jacqui and Rai talking about Hearing Voices on TV18/07/2021 - 8:07 PM
Jasper Gibson & Jacqui Dillon in conversation at AD4E Festival05/05/2021 - 3:37 PM
Jasper Gibson and Jacqui Dillon, In Conversation – Fiction about Psychosis: Impact, ethics, effects05/05/2021 - 2:45 PM