We’re thrilled to announce our first keynote speaker for the 2025 ISPS-US Annual Conference: Sasha Warren.
Sasha Warren is a writer and community mental health worker living in Minneapolis. In March, 2024, he released his first book Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt on the history of the revolutionary and reactionary politics of psychiatry with Common Notions. He is the co-founder of the Minnesota chapter of ISPS-US and of Hearing Voices Twin Cities. He writes on psychiatric history, policy, and law on his substack Of Unsound Mind and helps maintain a digital archive of documents associated with the Network of Alternatives to Psychiatry. He is currently working on his second book on the political economy of psychiatry and the family.
Don’t miss the chance to hear from him in Chicago!
Join us! The 2025 conference, Bridging the Divides: From Fragmentation to Connection in Psychosis and Society, will be held November 7–9, 2025, at the University of Illinois Chicago and online via Zoom. It will be a space for transformative dialogue around healing fragmentation in our lives, our systems, and our society.
The Call for Proposals is Open
We invite practitioners, researchers, people with lived experience, students, and advocates to submit your ideas for presentations, workshops, panels, and posters.
Deadline: June 1st, 2025
More keynote speakers will be announced soon, so stay tuned.
And please help us spread the word by forwarding this call across your networks.
See you in Chicago!
Learn more: www.isps-us.org/conference
