Jo Fitzsimons @jo-fitzsimons

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AEPCC (convened by Orygen) hosted its 2024 forum. A key theme was smashing the stigma around psychosis, well-represented by this amazing t-shirt from advocate Hamish!

More: bit.ly/3Z2mcNG or via @psychosis_understood on Instagram.

03.12.2024 04:40 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Last conference for the year! Looking forward to hearing about all things registries at the #ACTA clinical registries day 🤓
#aepcc #earlypsychosis

03.12.2024 23:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? – podcast In avatar therapy, a clinician gives voice to their patients’ inner demons. For some of the participants in a new trial, the results have been astounding. By Jenny Kleeman Continue reading...

‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? – podcast

22.11.2024 05:14 — 👍 99 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 2

Miss you too!! Hope the flight was ok 😬. Can’t wait for Chicago 🥳

23.11.2024 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AEPCC – Australian Early Psychosis Collaborative Consortium – (Pronounced APEX)Accessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight BackgroundLinks UnderlineReadab...

And so proud of the amazing AEPCC team! I’m so lucky to work with such an amazing group of peeps 🥹🥹

www.aepcc.org.au for more deets

23.11.2024 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First Post! Excited to be here 🤩. It was a big week running the #aepcc lived experience forum with the legendary Dr Nev Jones (@viscidula). It was a remarkable day and I can’t wait to get into all ideas we collected and build resources for the #earlypsychosis #livedexperience #research community 🥳🥳

23.11.2024 21:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

@jo-fitzsimons is following 20 prominent accounts

What Is Music? A Music Podcast About Music
@whatismusicpod

A podcast that deep dives into discographies - one artist per season. Hot takes, deep context, wild tangents. linktr.ee/whatismusicpod

Hank Green
@hankgreen

Long Time Internet Guy

Lexine Stapinski
@lexine-stapinski

Associate Professor & Clinical Psychologist, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney. Views my own.

Orygen
@orygen.org.au

Australia's Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health. 💡 Pioneering research 🧡 Policy & advocacy 🎓 Education & training 🌱 Innovations in care

Dr Oliver Higgins
@oliverhiggins

Mental Health Nurse. Technologist. PhD Candidate.

FoRSe Study
@forsestudy

Measuring Fears of Recurrence in Psychosis Study. Developing a measure of fear of relapse in people who have experienced psychosis. Our Cognitive Interviewing study is now recruiting: https://tinyurl.com/ckud5zsb Contact us: forse_study@glasgow.ac.uk

Nicholas Cheng
@nicholascheng

PhD Candidate (Clinical Neuropsychology) at Monash University. Researching ADHD in early psychosis at Orygen. 📍Melbourne, Australia 🔗 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2209-4717

Dr Sarah Gauci
@sarahgauci

Research Fellow SolveChd, foodmoodcentre, IMPACTDeakin • Lifestyle interventions for #CVD, #MentalHealth & #Cognition • she/her

@spagdon

🌍 Social Work MSW & Doctoral Student | 🧠 Psychiatric Survivor | 🔎 Researching psychosis, peer support, and complexity in mental health | 📚 Lover of participatory methods & transformative theory | Scout’s human 🐾 She/they

@alivenational

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
@sjblakemore

Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: http://amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349

Matt Cram
@mattcram

Media and Comms Snr Manager, Orygen. Previously journalist and strategist at Nine, 3AW, Fairfax and Rural Press.

Nick Fava
@nickfava

Youth mental health policy at Orygen

Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP)
@mdap-unimelb

We're an academic team of Research Data Specialists enabling data-intensive and data-informed research across disciplines @unimelb www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap

The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research
@theichr

Official account of the ICHR hallucinationconsortium.org

Brain, Body, and Self Lab
@brainself

We study the sense of self, body representation, and the human brain. Based at Karolinska Institutet, led by Henrik Ehrsson.

Imperfect Cognitions
@philosophyblogs

Group blog investigating the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health research. Bringing research to everyone, via research updates, conference reports, and interviews with experts.

Prof Neil Thomas
@neilthomaspsy

Director, National eTherapy Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Mental health, digital mental health, psychological therapies, hearing voices, hallucinations.

Wellcome Collection
@wellcomecollection

A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us. wellcomecollection.org

Prof Victoria J Palmer (She/Her) on Wurundjeri Country
@victoriajpalmer

Prof of Co-Design and Primary Care Mental Health. Co-Director, The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation Australia. Areas: experience co-design, narrative, participatory, ethics, community-led, implementation, systemic change.