An introduction to the day! Jo Watson opens the festival: A Disorder For Everyone! The Online Festival, 17th September 2021.

The Challenge to psych diagnosis - Lucy Johnstone.

Survival is NOT a Disorder! - Dr Akima Thomas & Bec Bayliss.

Trauma informed / non pathologising work in schools - Dr Margot Sunderland.

Gabor Maté, Johann Hari & Lucy Johnstone in conversation.

Jasper Gibson, author of the novel ‘The Octopus Man', and his mentor/consultant on the book Dr Jacqui Dillon talk to Lucy Johnstone about the book and the issues it raises.

Paul Gilbert talks to Lucy Johnstone about Compassion Focused Therapy, the medicalisation of emotional distress and his thoughts on the way forward.

If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem! - Mitzy Sky & Vesper Moore.

Four activists talk about the campaign for an independent review on ECT.

Prof Dainus Pūras, Ex special rapporteur on right to health for United Nations.

Just Saying It As It Is: Names Matter; Language Matters: Truth Matters.

Panel members: Prof Peter Kinderman; Dr Jacqui Dillon; Mitzy Sky; Prof Dainius Pūras; Vesper Moore; Dr Sanah Ashan. Chaired by Lucy Johnstone

Psychiatric diagnosis is a specific form of language that has promoted a diminished status of people with lived experience and their families. Its effects extend well beyond mental health services. In her presentation Debra Lampshire, lived experience expert, University of Auckland, New Zealand will discuss the reclaiming of what has been taken from those labelled ‘mentally ill’.