A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E)

A Disorder for Everyone! - The Online Festival 2025 AD4E festival 2025: A whole day of change-making talks, presentations, conversations - all challenging the culture of diagnosis & disorder!

A Disorder for Everyone's festival offers a whole day of change-making talks, presentations and conversations - all challenging the culture of diagnosis and disorder.

Have a look at the programme and book on the link below ⬇️ Please share!

🗓️Friday, 7 November 2025
📍9:00 - 17:00
⌚Online

Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?
By Peter Simons

madintheuk.com/2025/10/trau...

#TraumaInformedCare #PTMF #TraumaAwareness #MentalHealthResearch #CompassionateCare #RecoveryOrientedPractice #HealingTogether #PsychologicalSafety #MadInAmerica

Facing the truth about World Mental Health Day
By Jo Watson

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#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD2025 #WMHD
#FacingTheTruth #DistressNotDisorder #ReclaimTheNarrative #ChallengingTheNarrative
#MentalHealthReclaimed #BeyondTheBiomedicalModel #SolidarityNotStigma

Facing the truth about World Mental Health Day - Mad in the UK Jo Watson alongside Drop the Disorder FB group and the AD4E community share alternative messages challenging the the biomedical story of WMHD

@madintheuk.bsky.social www.madintheuk.com/2025/10/faci...

An Audience With An Ally - Johann Hari Join AD4E ally, Johann Hari for an informal chat and Q&A about his life and work.

Really looking forward to our friend and ally Johann Hari
popping in to our zoom room for a chat about his work.

Hear how he challenges the culture of diagnosis and disorder and ask him your questions!

Join us 🧡

Donation only places available.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1136180349...

Well, are they? 🤷‍♀️ 🫤

Sign up to reserve your place at the AD4E festival here (donation only)

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@drnaomifisher.bsky.social

Join us online this Wed to hear Child &Adolescent Psychiatrist Sami Timimi talk about his book ‘Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity’ &his work that challenges the pathologising of emotional distress.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222883701...

Another reason why you won’t want to miss this year’s #adisorder4everyone Festival!

~Donation only
~CPD cert - 8 hrs
~Recorded to watch afterwards
~Connecting with a community that wants to see change

In association with V-Day

Sign up now!

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Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful”
By John Read

madintheuk.com/2025/07/gros...

#AntidepressantWithdrawal #WithdrawalEffects #PsychDrugWithdrawal #ComingOffMeds #TaperingMeds #PsychMedAwareness #PharmaAccountability #DoNoHarm

Yep

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Big pharma-funded psychiatrists 'cosplaying science' in misleading antidepressant withdrawal study The paper claims, with confidence, that withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants are minimal and easily managed. Not true.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Using Internal Family Systems - Opening the door to Self This workshop explores how Internal Family Systems (IFS) can radically deepen self-awareness and enhance therapeutic practice.

Tomorrow! (Thur 10th Jul)

Join clin psych Dr Zandra Bamford for this powerful exploration of #InternalFamilySystems (IFS) as a radical, non-pathologising approach to healing. This workshop offers a chance to deepen self-awareness & rethink old assumptions.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1225119558...

ECT Proponents Deny Harms as the Tide Begins to Shift WHO and APA guidance now recognizes the risks of electroshock, but proponents continue to cherry-pick data and deny the harms.

@madintheuk.bsky.social

www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/ect-...

For those who’ve not read the most recent Drop the Disorder book did you know you can download a sample off kindle for free!?
It includes my intro, Sami Timimi’s chapter on why he wrote INSANE MEDICINE
& my interview with Joanna Moncrieff about her crucial work

Download it!

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What Would True Informed Consent for Antidepressants Actually Look Like?
By MITUK admin

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#InformedConsent #MedicalEthics #PatientAutonomy #EthicsInPractice #ConsentCulture

Moving tribute to a son who died while taking 'antipsychotic' drugs. - Mad in the UK A family left bereft after psychiatry failed to inform them of the risks to their son's life while under their care.

www.madintheuk.com/2025/06/movi...

Adaption Practice: Living Zen with Dr Clive Sherlock Dr Sherlock resigned from psychiatry & now teaches Adaptation Practice, a secular approach derived from traditional Japanese Zen Buddhism.

TOMORROW EVENING!

Bring more ‘ZEN’ to your therapeutic & support work with this Buddhist inspired workshop.

Limited places left now.
Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1144389292...

Exploring the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model for Trauma and Addiction International trainer Jan Winhall introduces the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model to help people who've experienced trauma and addiction.

Jan Winhall has worked with many people in the trauma space from Steve Porges to Janina Fisher & this evening she’s sharing her wisdom with us!

Don’t miss it!

CPD - 2 hours
Still places available at the moment.
Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100154253...

An Audience with an Ally - Professor Emmy van Deurzen Join AD4E ally, existential therapist and philosopher Emmy van Deurzen to hear about her life and work.

Join us for a powerful hour online tomorrow evening (5 June) with AD4E ally, Prof Emmy van Deurzen – existential therapist, philosopher and unapologetic challenger of the medicalisation of emotional distress.

FREE tickets available

Sign up!

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An Audience with an Ally - Prof Peter Kinderman Activist, author, academic & former president of the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman joins us to talk about his life & work.

Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June

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How to come off psychiatric drugs safely with Dr Mark Horowitz An invaluable opportunity to learn from Mark Horowitz about how to safely come off psychiatric drugs.

Starting in an hour!

Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live.

CPD -2 hours

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1106166747...

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A little look into @platfform.org bookshelves - radical help, drop the disorder and time to think - helps you get a little under the skin of who we are

Challenging the diagnosis of 'Personality Disorder' Platfform's Truth Project join us to share the story of their campaign that challenges the diagnosis of 'Personality Disorder'

Starting at 12.00 today.

Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live.
CPD -2 hours

Sign up here

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5625142643...

April 2025 in Review

Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/

#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse

Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: January-March

Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed!

madintheuk.com/blogs/

#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters

Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation - Mad in the UK Harriet Vogt, a qualitative researcher joined a Prescribed Medication Withdrawal peer group in N Wales to listen and learn.

Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation

www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/with...

#WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal
#PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUK​

This Friday, with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social! We'll be exploring 'whole community' approaches to mental health, understanding the circumstances and experiences that lay at the root of distress - and what all this means to ways of working that make a lasting difference.

Book here: buff.ly/Re6c4HM

Psychiatrists Joanna Moncrieff and Sami Timimi discuss their new books Joanna &Sami join us to discuss their latest books that will contribute enormously to the critical discourse in the field of ‘mental health’

Today at 12.30 (UK)

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist Professor Sami Timimi and Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry (UCL) and NHS psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff will be talking about their books and answering your questions.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100158847...

‘… so every one of us scored an #ADHD diagnosis!’

Professor Peter C Gøtzsche of The Institute for Scientific Freedom
scientificfreedom.dk
at a recent AD4E ‘An Audience with an Ally’ event.

For more audiences with allies check here… bit.ly/41DUsQB