Laura Delano

Caroline Mazel-Carlton

Awais Aftab

David Mintz

Kelsey Socha

Javeed Sukhera

Leigh Nathan

Radical Recovery Symposium - 2025

Transforming psychiatry through collaboration, dignity, and lived experience to advance healing, choice, and person centered care.

Hartford Hospital ERD/ERC Building

<p>We aim to reimagine psychiatric care by fostering dialogue and collaboration across communities, education, and research to expand access and continuity of care. By empowering patients, families, and clinicians to co-design services, uphold dignity, and promote choice in every aspect of the behavioral health system. Through storytelling and the voices of lived experience, we showcase innovative approaches that move beyond symptom management toward deeper healing, stronger community connection, and sustained recovery.</p>

Agenda

Breakfast

Introductory Remarks

This conversation will highlight how many people are often overdiagnosed and medicated unnecessarily, while others with serious mental illness struggle to access proper care. Together, we will explore the challenges, share personal and professional perspectives, and seek pathways toward a more balanced and compassionate mental health system that respects individual needs and promotes effective treatment

Panel - Overmedicalization and Undertreatment

This session will explore how current suicide assessment paradigms may stifle open and honest dialogue about the purpose and meaning of suicide. This session will discuss how risk-focused frameworks often limit deeper conversations about individuals' personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings around suicide, potentially inhibiting trust and understanding. Together, we will share perspectives on the challenges these paradigms pose, examine their impact on care, and explore ways to foster more empathetic, meaningful discussions that respect patients’ voices and promote comprehensive mental health support.

Panel - Beyond the Checklist: Rethinking Suicide Assessment Paradigms

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Radical Recovery Symposium - 2025

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