*With apologies for cross posting*
Some of you may be interested in our next Medical Sociology Group
Seminar,
Wednesday 27th May 6-7pm
‘What can neuroscience contribute to the future for mental health?’ The
triple crisis of neuropsychiatry.’
Professor Nikolas Rose, KCL
Abstract: Psychiatry is in a crisis. Perhaps that is its normal state.
For purposes of this provocation, I will put it starkly. This particular
crisis is in large part because of the wager that has been made on
neuroscience. It is a crisis of its diagnostic systems. It is a crisis
of its explanatory models. It is a crisis of its therapeutic capacities.
Of its diagnostic systems despite – perhaps because – of the recurrent
claims about the extent of diagnosable ‘brain disorders’. Of its
explanatory systems despite – perhaps because – of its current wager on
the brain as the ultimate locus for explanations of mental disorders –
“brain disorders”. Of its therapeutic capacities despite – perhaps
because – more and more people are making use of its primary mode of
intervention – psychiatric drugs. What I want to do – at the risk of
great oversimplification – is: explain the depth of this triple crisis
of diagnosis, explanation and therapeutics; say why I think this is; and
suggest briefly that there are some ways out that do not require
abandoning the brain; pretending mental disorders do not exist; giving
up on our commitment to supporting the great many of our fellow citizens
worldwide who, in different ways, find it difficult to cope with the
demands placed up on them by their forms of life.
Discussant: Professor Paul Martin, Sheffield
After Professor Martin's response we will open up the session for a
general discussion and follow this with a trip to a nearby pub.
Everyone is welcome to attend. So please join us for what should be a
very interesting evening.
*Venue*
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Room G14 (Jerry Morris B)
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
Nearest train/tube stations: Russell Square, Euston and Kings Cross
Contact:
Lorelei Jones [log in to unmask]
Oliver Bonnington [log in to unmask]
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