Welcome to ISPS

ISPS is an international organization promoting psychotherapy and psychological treatments for persons with psychosis.
We are committed to advancing education, training and knowledge of mental health professionals in the treatment and prevention of psychotic mental disorders.

We seek to achieve the best possible outcomes for service users by engaging in meaningful partnership with health professionals, service users, families and carers.

Latest News

Christian Müller MD (1921-2013)

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES FOR PSYCHOSIS

ISPS Warsaw 2013 Congress

22-25 August 2013

The conference is highly relevant for all interested in psychosis. For information on registration, the conference programme and other exciting news please visit www.isps2013warsaw.pl

R.I.P.

It is with great sadness that we mourn the recent passing of our ISPS co-founder Professor Christian Müller. Together with Gaetano Benedetti, Christian Müller co-founded ISPS in Switzerland in 1956. Professor Müller has inspired many clinicians over the past decades and it was a great honour for many of us to meet him at the International ISPS congress in Madrid in 2006, which was also the 50 year anniversary for ISPS.

Müller (1978) emphasized the importance of making attempts to understand, make contact and dialogue with the person suffering from schizophrenia in contrast to the Jasperian legacy which claims the incomprehensibility of psychotic symptoms.

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ISPS changes its name to remove the term schizophrenia

In March 2012 members of the ISPS voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the society's name from the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses to the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. The change comes at a time when the scientific validity of the term schizophrenia is being hotly debated in the lead up to the publication of the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

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Families and Carers

A perfect Vision for Mental Health 2020

Friday, 24th May 2013

In honour of their 20th anniversary EUFAMI is hosting a major European conference in cooperation with Shine.

Programme

www.eufami.org

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Survivors of psychosis

Service users / survivors group

ISPS International maintains an e-mail discussion group for ISPS members who are service users / survivors of psychosis.

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ISPS Journal

The ISPS Journal Psychosis accepts personal and institutional subscriptions. All Individual Members of ISPS and local ISPS group members receive quarterly issues of the journal as a membership benefit.

We have just heard that the the ISPS Journal has been accepted by Web of Science!