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newsletter vol.4 no.1 - september 2000 Report and reflections on ISPS 2000 2 Letter form the chairman In this newsletter you find several pages with pictures 3-6 Reports and and reflections on the ISPS reflections on 2000 congress in June in Stavanger, Norway. ISPS 2000 5 The David To the left: Feinsilver award Queen Sonja of Norway is leaving the congress building 7 Minutes from the together with Jan Olav general assembly Johannessen after she has opened the congress. 8 Nordic workshop 9-10 Local groups ISPS book published in co-operation with by Gaskell 11 How to form local groups The book Psychosis: Psychological Approaches and their Effectiveness is published by Gaskell (UK) in cooperation with ISPS. Editors are Brian 12 Book review Marindale, Anthony Bateman, Michael Crowe and Frank Margison. Please find more information and order form on page 13. 13 ISPS book 14 A list of Top 20 papers ISPS website updated Subjectivity and Treatment of Psychosis The ISPS website is updated 15 How to use the regularly with news on activities in This was the theme for the first ISPS web site ISPS and in the field of psychological Nordic ISPS workshop, arranged treatments of psychoses. in Copenhagen. Read more about 16 How to become a Look on page 15 for more information iton page 8. member on how to use the website, - and visit ISPS encourages you to it yourself at www.isps.org. become a member of a local You are encouraged to take an ISPS group by offering the 16 Membership form active part in the development of the benefits of ISPS membership website by submitting information, through the membership in local joining discussion groups and making groups. More on page 11. the website known to others. vol.4 no.1 - september 2000 1 isps newsletter Dear friends and colleages chairman, Johan Cullberg, who has ISPS secretariat done a tremendous job in this field, both for the patients and for us It is with deep respect that I The ISPS secretariat is a link working within this area. thank the members of ISPS for between members and the executive We will encourage the national electing me your new chairman of committee, updates the website, prints chapters of the ISPS to organise the International Society for the and distributes the newsletter, keeps a national symposia, leading up to the Psychological Treatments for database of ISPS members and local next international symposium, the 14th Schizophrenia and other Psychoses. networks, and helps the society and international symposium, the 14th The ISPS has gradually the members with information and ISPS, in Melbourne 2003, where the developed into an important other services. Mail to the ISPS and main theme will be around the organisation, with an important role the executive committee may be sent therapeutic relationship. to play internationally when it comes to the secretariat, who will forward it to providing decent treatments for to the right persons. Jan Olav Johannessen people suffering from psychotic The secretariat is hosted by the Chairman breakdown. In our time, at least in Centre for Psychotherapy and the western economy, time in itself Psychosocial Rehabilitation of has become maybe the most From the ISPS 2000 and Psychoses (SEPREP), which is a non- expensive element in the treatment forward... commercial foundation and a network of people with psychiatric disorders, of clinicians and researchers promot- as well as somatic disorders. The At the ISPS 2000 in Stavanger was ing psychological treatment of ISPS will continue to be a strong an important event, where ISPS psychoses in Norway. force in maintaining and developing members and others met and shared effective psychological treatments, their interest and experiences in without being uni-dimensional or psychological treatments of psychoses. Address to the segregationistic in our approaches. Several pages in this newsletter is ISPS secretariat We lean on a proud tradition, and devoted to present soms impressions at the 13th International symposium and reflections from the congress. We ISPS c/o SEPREP for the psychological treatments of need such international congresses Jernbanetorget 4 A schizophrenia and other psychoses, where we can be inspired and where N-1054 Oslo the ISPS 2000 in Stavanger 5.-9. we can develop a worldwide network. Norway June 2000, doctors Benedetti and But we also need local networks to Siirala were active participants, and help each other keep psychological Tel +47 2310 3777 marked the connection back to the treatments of psychoses alive, to put Fax +47 2310 3779 start of the ISPS in 1957. At the such treatments methods into practice meeting in Stavanger more than 300 and to develop them further to the E-mail: [email protected] presentations demonstrated a broad benefit of those who need it. One of the Website: www.isps.org range of interests in psychological important steps taken during the ISPS and psychosocial treatment 2000, was that several national or Bank account 5005 06 56648 strategies, and it will be no secret to regional groups met to work on the Den norske Bank, Oslo, Norway you that the new chairman takes a development of local groups of ISPS. special interest and hope for the We encourage all members to take an ISPS thanks Pfizer as sponsor for psychological treatments in active part in creating and developing printing and distribution of the relationship to stage specific or early such local networks and groups. newsletter. We also thank Mimi intervention strategies. We think that Another way to keep in touch Feinsilver and an anonymous person we already have some indications between international congresses, is to in Sweden for gifts that contribute to that early intervention makes it more use the ISPS newsletter and the ISPS increased distribution. meaningful to provide psychological website. The website is updated treatments, and that the patients can frequently as news become available ISPS honorary participate more actively and benefit on international and local activities of life time members to a greater degree than later in the ISPS, and increasingly also on other illness development. information of interest to members. Yrjö Alanen, Finland For the organisation ISPS, the The newsletter is distributed two times Gaetano Benedetti, Switzerland most important challenge in the a year and is reaching all members, Bryce Boyer, USA nearest future will be to build the including those that do not have access Stephen Fleck, USA organisation into a strong and to the website. We encourage you all to Murray Jackson, UK influential force, in co-operation visit the website regularly, and to use Jarl Jørstad, Norway with international organisations the website and the newsletter to share Theodore Lidz, USA such as WPA, WHO and other your experiences and information with Christian Müller, Switzerland organisations building on a others. Barbro Sandin, Sweden psychosocial platform. Here we will Helm Stierlin, Germany build on the work by the former Torleif Ruud, Editor Lyman Wynne, USA 2 vol.4 no.1 - september 2000 isps newsletter Reports from The 13th International Symposium for the Psychological treatments of Schizophrenia and other psychoses June 5 – 8, 2000 in Stavanger, Norway On pages 3-7 you can read reports and reflections from the ISPS 2000, as well as see some pictures. When the ISPS 2000 was opened by Queen Sonja of All photographs are by Courtenay Harding. Norway in the morning af June 5, most of the more than You may submit your own reflections on the sym- 700 participants from forty countries had found their posium to the website or to the next newsletter. seats in the plenary auditorium of the congress building. The welcome reception was the night before in the perspective, currently available in Swedish). ISPS thanks Rogaland Art Museum, with music and access to the the publishing company Natur och Kultur for kindly exhibitions, including those arranged in relation to the including the ISPS book in their book launch. ISPS 2000. Several sessions during the congress also The abstracts of all the presentations at ISPS 2000 is took place in the auditorium of the Rogaland Art Mu- published in a supplementary issue of the journal Acta seum. A concert with a choir and a chamber orchestra Psychiatrica Scandinavica (se page 12 for the complete wase arranged in the Stavanger Catherdral on the first reference). This means that the abstract book of ISPS evening of the congress. 2000 also was distributed to 1 700 subscribers worldwide But there were also a blend of cultural events in the and is available in many institutions and libraries. main congress program every day. Each plenary session It is not possible in a short space to mention even a started with a , including classical music, blues, dancing, small portion of all the important issues that were or reading from a novel on the life of the Norwegian addressed during the ISPS 2000, - or the approximately painter Lars Herterwig, a well known artist from Roga- 350 presentations in plenary sessions, symposia, land who suffered from psychosis. workshops, free paper sessions and poster sessions. One evening more than half of the participants had But on the following pages some of the speakers have the unforgetable experience of a long boat trip on the described briefly their experiences and reflections from fjords in .the light summer evening of Norway, combi- taking part in the ISPS 2000, - bringing back some ned with delicious sea foods in a restaurant at the fjord. memories to those who attended and giving a taste of the The general assembly of ISPS met on June 7 in the congress ecperience to thos that coould not participate. lunch break, and the minutes from the meeting is on page In the next newsletter we may have more reflections 7 of this newsletter.