AD4E: CPD events that challenge the culture of diagnosis and disorder.

14/09/2026

Revisiting Judith Herman and the work that changed the conversation around trauma. With Jacqui Dillon and featuring Judith Herman

For many people around the world, Judith Lewis Herman’s work transformed how trauma, abuse and emotional distress are understood. Her groundbreaking book Trauma and Recovery helped shift the conversation away from individual pathology and towards context, relationships, power and survival. Her wor...

14/09/2026

A philosophical exploration of how social disconnection is produced and why its consequences are often pathologised.

In this workshop, philosopher and host of The Loneliness Industry podcast, Jordan Reyne presents an original philosophical model exploring how social disconnection is systematically produced and how its consequences become understood as individual disorder. Drawing on philosophy and critical social....

13/09/2026

Reasons doctors and other medical professionals are unable to see iatrogenic injuries (caused by medical treatment) from psychiatric medications.

10/09/2026

Please support this crowdfunder if you can. By doing so you will get links to many of the incredible films being shown at this film festival!

The Film festival "Rethinking Mental Health"

The money raised will help cover the costs of renting the theater and administrative expenses following the festival.

Mad in Norway is organizing an international film festival in Lillehammer from September 24 to 26
In addition to film screenings, the festival will feature conversations with filmmakers, panel discussions, presentations, and artistic contributions. All in English.
Visit the film festival’s website for more information about the program, films, and participants.

Funding
We have put a lot of time and effort into applying to a number of relevant foundations and organizations for support to fund the film festival, but we’ve been turned down time and time again. We’ve left no stone unturned, and that’s why we’re now launching a crowdfunding campaign.

We have core funding from Mad in America and some support from the Eastern Norway Film Center and the municipality of Lillehammer. Many have purchased festival passes and are helping in this way to cover the costs.
The festival will go on regardless, but we are short 150.000 NOK to cover all the costs of renting the theater and administrative support afterward.
We thank those of you who have already contributed.

Filmmakers and others contributing during the festival do so without compensation or reimbursement for travel expenses.

A spirit of volunteerism and idealism has created this festival. This also applies to the organizers.

It all stems from our shared commitment to change in services and a paradigm shift in the way we approach human suffering and life crises.

Contribute and gain access to videos from the festival

You can contribute by donating any amount, large or small. Every contribution is welcome.

Those who contribute will gain access to recordings from the film festival—that is, all speeches, panel discussions, and presentations. These will be filmed and made available to those who receive links and passwords.

Links to many of the films on the program, which are available online, will also be shared with you.

Organizations and persons that contribute at least 5,000 NOK will have their logo (or name) featured on the film festival’s website and program.

Collaborating partners
The film festival is organized in collaboration with
Mad in America and the Mad in the World network
SPoR (the Norwegian Nurses Association’s professional group for mental health and substance abuse), SELL (Center for Lifelong Learning at Innlandet University), the Norwegian TV School, Lillehammer, and the Amandus Blikkfang festival.

http://www.spleis.no/510454?s=c

This September, we invite you to come to Lillehammer, Norway, to be inspired by films from around the world – films that rarely reach mainstream cinema.

09/09/2026

We are excited to be screening the film Traumality on 16 NOV
The film will be followed by a panel discussion which will include the film maker Ton Mazzone, Robert Whitaker and several more incredible people!

Join us..

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1998375656383?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/09/2026

Excited to be welcoming our ally Dr John Read back into our Zoom room tomorrow evening - John will be discussing whether psychiatric diagnosis is scientific and/or helpful and it's bound to be an interesting evening! Join us live or sign up for the recording.

The wonderful Dr John Read, Professor of Psychology at the University of East London, is back to explore psychiatric diagnosis: whether it is useful and whether it can be considered scientific. There will also time to put your questions to John and connect with others who think critically about the....

05/09/2026

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer said he hopes this trial is the spark that lights the fire for change for women.

I hope so too.

This has been a heartbreaking case to follow.

And sadly, with so many familiar themes.

I also feel that the outcome - where a woman remains incarcerated within the same system that failed her, a system that pumped her full of medication that altered her usual ways of being and responding, and that ultimately contributed to the tragic deaths of three children - is what now needs to be on trial.

What are your thoughts?

Link to the full article I wrote last month: https://medium.com//beyond-mad-or-bad-7809f700a58d?sharedUserId=owningourownnarratives