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Special Evening with Sir Robin Murray

“Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Update on the latest treatments in Europe and the United States” presented by Sir Robin MacGregor Murray, MD., Professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

When: Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Where: El Camino Hospital, 2500 Grant Road Mountain View 94040, New Main Hospital, Conference rooms E, F &G

Registration required due to limited room capacity: Lauren_Olaiz@elcaminohospital.org

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Story of Debra Lampshire

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Debra has heard voices since childhood and spent several decades in Mental Institutions She discovered a way of getting her voices under control and reclaimed her life, leaving mental health services behind. Her approach has now been adopted by mainstream Mental Health Services in New Zealand.

 

MiniDoc: Surviving Schizophrenia
Psychosis sufferers get a voice

Story of Elyn R. Saks

 

 

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Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School,  an expert in mental health law and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007.  Saks is also a cancer survivor.

Elyn Saks TED talk

Keynote: Elyn Saks, – Living a Productive Life

Living with schizophrenia