17 Oct 2011 - Cornwall - A Natural Approach to Better Mental Health

The Chy-Sawel Project

Chy-Sawel is a charity dedicated to showing that an holistic and nutritional approach to treating mental illness is an option that can no longer be ignored.  Their brief is to embrace and collate current research and promote the findings in a simple and logical way.  The ultimate aim of the project is to open a Centre, which will provide treatment as well as running eduction and training programmes.

About the Conference

This conference will highlight the research into the effects that diet and other external influences have on the mental and emotional health of people of all ages.  Depression and mental illness have increased many-fold in the last 50 years, fulfilling the prediction that it will be our No 1 disease by the year 2020.  Our speakers will explain how an holistic and more modern approach can make an important contribution in the battle against this problem.

PROGRAMME

09.00 to 09.30 Refreshments and Registration

09.35 to 09.50 Welcome and Introduction including Chy-Sawel Update
by Steve Angove, David Chaisty (Combined Universities of Cornwall)

09.50 to 10.00 A brief outline behind the Chy-Sawel story

10.00 to 11.00  Reflections on Modern Psychiatry
by Robert Whitaker (Award-winning investigative journalist and author, 'Mad in America' and 'Anatomy of an Epidemic'

11.00 to 11.15 Refreshment Break

11.15 to 12.00 NHS Speaker (tbc)

12.00 to 13.30 The Brain Basics of Neurodevelopment Disorders
by Professor John Stein, (Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Oxford, Chair of Dyslexia Research Trust)

Questions and Answers

13.30 to 14.30 Lunch

14.30 to 15.00 Acupuncture for Mental Recovery & Survival
by Dr Mike Smith (MD, DAs, Psychiatrist, Founder & Previous Chair of NADA)

15.00 to 15.40 Human Givens - A Common Sense Approach to Mental Health
by Hilary Farmer (Givens Psychotherapist)

15.40 to 16.10 Not Taking Medication & Paying Income Tax
by Dr David Orton, (Former Consultant Psychiatrist, Newton Abbot Hospital)

16.10 to 16.30 Service User Perspective
by Ray Hancock (Member SURG)

Each presentation will be followed by Questions and Answers

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