Network Seminar: "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", 20th March, Birmingham and Online

Location

In person: Assembly Room, The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2DR.

Online: Teams meeting.

Date and time

20th March 2026, 9:00-4:30

Registration

For both in person and online attendance, please register here:

Workshop Registration: "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", 20th March, Hybrid  – Fill in form

In person space is limited. If you planned to attend in person but can no longer make it, please let either Jodie Russell (j.l.russell@bham.ac.uk) or Lisa Bortolotti (l.bortolotti@bham.ac.uk) know as we can offer your place to someone else

Organisers

Lisa Bortolotti, Fiona Malpass, Ema Sullivan-Bissett, and Alex McCowen

Supported by:

● Hearing Voices and Suicidality (QR Participatory Research Fund)

● Mind in Camden

● Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health

● EPIC project (Wellcome Discovery Award)

Description

In this event we reflect on AI psychosis and the relationship between hearing voices and suicidality from the perspectives of philosophy, mental health research, psychology, and lived experience.

Schedule

Session 1: Philosophical Perspectives on AI Psychosis

Chairperson: Lisa Bortolotti

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-10:00 Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna) TBC

10:00-10:30 Anneli Jefferson (University of Cardiff): Cults, Mirrors and AI Psychosis.

10:30-11:00 Q&A

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (University of Birmingham): Against AI causing "AI Psychosis"

12:00-12:30 Lucy Osler (University of Exeter): Creating Realities with Social Chatbots

12:30-13:00 Q&A

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Session 2: Hearing Voices and Suicidality

Chairperson: Kathleen Murphy-Hollies

14:00-14:30 Sarah Parry (University of Manchester): What have we learnt so far from the ChUSE Trial? A NIHR funded feasibility trial into improving access to psychological therapy in CAMHS for children and young people with distressing sensory experiences.

14:30-15:00 Fiona Malpass (Mind in Camden): Hearing Voices and Suicidality

15:00-15:30 Q&A

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:15 Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham and University of Ferrara): Resources for professionals supporting people who hear voices.

16:15-16:30 Final thoughts.