Join us in Chicago and online on Zoom for ISPS-US's 2025 Annual National Psychosis Conference!
ISPS-US 24th Annual Conference
November 7th: Pre-Conference Workshop "Psychosis, Trauma, and Psychotherapy" with Michael Garrett, MD
November 8-9th: Full Conference
University Of Illinois Chicago, Student Center West | Hybrid Online
Bridging the Divides: From Fragmentation to Connection in Psychosis and Society
Ours is a fractured time. Splits and fissures run through every aspect of our experience, internal and external, personal, familial, and social. In the realm of mental health, and particularly in the understanding and treatment of psychosis, these divides are especially palpable. There are widening clinical ideological rifts, disconnection between the realities of those experiencing symptoms and those providing care, and a chasm between what we dream to be possible in the mental health system and what currently exists.
As we face the deepening divides in our country and in our world, and witness the impacts of concentrations of wealth, power, and control upon our daily lives, we recognize the process of healing is not only personal but collective. Individuals working to integrate or recover from experiences of extreme states have often led the way in confronting fragmentations — psychical, racial, economic, gender-based, cultural — and in formulating responses that are both creative and effective.
The ISPS-US 24th Annual Conference will offer an opportunity to hold these responses together in community, and to explore ways to address and transcend their interlocking reverberations in psyche, family, and society. Through dialogue, collaboration, and advocacy, we will work to bridge the gaps between perspectives, disciplines, and lived realities in psychosis care and beyond.
We hope you will join us to celebrate ISPS-US as a growing hub for transformative thought and action.
See you in Chicago!
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Conference News
We’re thrilled to share that we reached our $4,000 goal for the Together We Rise 2025 Scholarship Fundraiser, and we reached it two days early.
Join us for in-person half-day pre-conference workshop at The Fine Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Ave, Chicago exploring trauma informed approaches to psychosis with psychodynamic master clinician, Michael Garrett, MD.
We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the ISPS-US 2025 Annual Conference, taking place in person in Chicago and online via Zoom.
Mental health care is at a crossroads, and so is our society. This year's ISPS-US conference, "Bridging the Divides: From Fragmentation to Connection in Psychosis and Society," invites clinicians, people with lived experience, family members, researchers, and advocates to come together in community to explore what it means to bridge the deep divides in our systems, relationships, and selves. Through dialogue, collaboration, and radical imagination, we’ll work toward humane, rights-based approaches to psychosis.
With just 10-days left until the deadline for our Call for Proposals, we're thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker for the 2025 ISPS-US Annual Conference: Tanya Luhrmann, PhD!
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.
We’re thrilled to announce the theme of our 2025 Annual Conference: "Bridging the Divides: From Fragmentation to Connection in Psychosis and Society."
Join us November 7-9, 2025, at the University of Illinois Chicago and hybrid online via Zoom for a transformative gathering that invites dialogue on healing our times' personal, clinical, and social fractures.
With this announcement, the conference Call for Proposals (CFP) is also now open. Submit your proposals by June 1, 2025.
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