Thinking, Feeling, Being: Critical Perspectives and Creative Engagement in Psychosocial Health
Wednesday 23 August 2007

It is with great pleasure that the School of Nursing, Dublin City University invites you to the second annual Health4Life conference. The focus of this year's conference is on psychosocial health and is entitled 'Thinking, Feeling, Being: Critical Perspectives and Creative Engagement in Psychosocial Health'. The conference provides an opportunity for practitioners, service users, carers, artists, academics and researchers to present innovative practice, research and/or lived experience relative to psychosocial well-being.

• Professor Thomas Szasz Psychopathology: Mendacity and Metaphor
• Professor Arthur Frank How Stories Make Experience Possible, and How They Make Life Dangerous
• Professor Paul Verhaeghe “Chronicle of a death foretold”: the end of psychotherapy
• Professor Phil Barker What's the point?: The death of vocation in the age of celebrity
• Assoc Professor Priscilla Ridgway Overturning Deadening Myths of Chronicity: Listening for Stories of Resilience
• Professor Dawn Freshwater Culture, understanding and narrative: Embodying psycho-social symbols of health
• Dr Siobhán Barry 'Advances in Psychiatric Care & Treatment'

Please see timetable for specific times for the above Keynote addresses.