“Real People: The Self in Mental Health and Social Care”, 13th International Conference, International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP) - 28th to 30th June 2010 - Manchester, UK
Mardi, février 16th, 2010The theme of the conference has been chosen to encourage philosophical reflection, as well as practical consideration, at the interface of philosophy and mental health disciplines. The conference will cover many subjects within the broad headings of philosophical, cultural, social, legal and ethical implications of mental health care, pharmacology and neuroscience, and will tackle the interface between generalised scientific method and responses to indiviudal need. It will engage users and survivors of psychiatry and mental health professionals in a productive dialogue about the interface of conceptual ideas and psychiatric practice. It will consider meaning and definition in mental health care and identify differences in interpreretation of commonly used terms, such as person, self, recovery. The language of the conference is English.
The conference will:
• engage users and survivors of psychiatry and mental health professionals in a productive dialogue about the interface of conceptual ideas and psychiatric practice;
• consider meaning and definition in mental health care and identify differences in interpretation of commonly used terms, such as person, self, recovery;
• explore the philosophical, cultural, social, psychological, legal and ethical implications of developments in mental health care, pharmacology and neuroscience;
• discuss the interface between generalised scientific methods and inquiry, and the priority for individual responses to individual needs and values.
Key sub-plenary and sessional topics will include, but are not limited to:
• Mind and meaning - self, identity and recognition in mental health care.
• Definition, language and the philosophical dimensions of the service
user/survivor movement.• Understanding psychopathology: philosophical and clinical
considerations.• Phenomenological approaches to understanding mental distress.
• Conceptual discussions of mental health, wellbeing, social capital and
community capacity.• Social justice and mental health – communities, rights and inclusion.
• Involving service users and survivors meaningfully in the management
and direction of research, care and support.• Service user and survivor driven innovation in mental health and
social care.
• Recovery and personal objectives – concepts of ‘personalisation’.• Reclaiming the self after mental health interventions.
• Spirituality and mental health.
• Alternative realities through music, art, theatre, and literature.
• Personal and community capacity, social and cultural capital.
• Culturally relevant assessment and diagnosis reflecting diversity and
difference.• Scientific psychiatry, classification and the individual.
Further information and an abstract form are available on the conference website.