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.
Conference Description:
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!
We look forward to receiving your proposals. And please share this CFP across your networks—we want to reach the widest and most diverse audience possible!
Help sustain ISPS’s nearly 70-year legacy and future impact! Whether through a one-time or monthly gift, your support ensures we can continue advancing psychosocial approaches to psychosis.
We are the US Chapter of The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US.) We have a global, almost 70-year legacy of reimagining psychosis care. Our community encompasses people with lived experience, service providers, family members, activists, and researchers.
We are a membership organization that welcomes people just like you, who share our vision for a more holistic, humane, rights-based approach to “psychosis” in the US. Our memberships come with multiple benefits that build community and promote dialogue and learning, including free access to our library of recorded webinars and discounts off our courses and conference registration.
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