08/11/2025
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Introducing Keynote Speaker
Jan Olav Johannessen
ISPS 2026
Modern understanding of psychosis: from brain disease to stress disorder
In this keynote I will summarise how we, in 2025, understand mental disorders in general, and psychosis in particular. During the last decade we have gained new insights into these disorders, and most textbooks are outdated and convey an old-fashioned understanding of the causes, the possible courses and the treatments needed for serious mental suffering. I will give an overview over the crucial importance of intervening early in these disorders, hopefully in the prepsychotic phases. Finally, I will outline an ideal organisation of "a psychosis early detection and treatment system".
About Jan Olav Johannessen:
Jan Olav Johannessen is a Norwegian professor of psychiatry, affiliated with Stavanger University Hospital/University of Stavanger. Previous Chair of ISPS international for two terms (2001-2006 and 2015-2019) and Initiator of the TIPS-project (Early intervention in psychosis). Former president of the Norwegian Psychiatric Association. A trained psychotherapist, at present working as a clinical psychotherapist for young people with first-episode psychosis, supervisor, researcher and educator.
Register at www.isps2026.com