Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine
Schedule
Thu Feb 29 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:15 pm
Location
Swedenborg Hall | London, EN
About this Event
What is mental health? Can we make sense of psychosis? What's the connection between mental health and concepts including race & evolution? Explore these questions, among others, through the lens of philosophy at the 2023/4 London Lectures.
Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine
Speaker: Justin Garson is professor of philosophy at City University of New York.
Since the 1970s, psychiatry has been in the grip of a paradigm I call ‘madness-as-dysfunction’. In this view, mental disorders happen when something inside the person isn’t working as it should, or is ‘broken.’ In my historical work, I’ve identified an alternate paradigm, which I call ‘madness-as-strategy,’ which sees mental illness in terms of purpose, adaptation and function. Here I contrast these frameworks and outline their implications for research, treatment and stigma.
Where is it happening?
Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00 to GBP 8.00
