International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry : forthcoming conferences 2010-2011
mars 13th, 2010Progress in Medicine
Bristol University, UK
13-15 April 2010
The aims of this conference are:
* To examine the nature, scope, causes, and grounds of progress in medicine.
* To provide a forum for developing the unified study of the history and philosophy of medicine, and in particular raising the profile of the philosophy of medicine in the UK and its engagement with the history of medicine.
* To create interdisciplinary bridges between the medical, philosophical, and historical professions, enabling medical professionals to become more theoretically engaged, while philosophers and philosophically-minded historians of medicine engage with the actual practice of medical professionals, so that their research reflects the realities and needs of modern medicine.
* To facilitate the wider dissemination of research into the philosophy and history of medicine beyond the boundaries of those disciplines, and especially in medical practice.
* To identify opportunities for public engagement concerning the relation between medical progress and changing attitudes to medical knowledge, the medical profession, and medical authority.
Organising committee:
* Professor Alexander Bird (University of Bristol)
* Michael Bresalier (University of Bristol)
* Dr Alex Broadbent (University of Cambridge)
* Dr Havi Carel (University of the West of England)
* Dr Jeremy Howick (Oxford/UCL)
* Advised by: Professor Donald Gillies (UCL) and Dr Rachel Cooper (Lancaster)
Brain and Self. Psychiatric Nosology: Definition, History and Validity
International Conference & PhD Course
Copenhagen
April 21-23, 2010
Organized by J. Parnas & K.S. Kendler
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Call for Abstracts - 22nd Annual Meeting
May 22 & 23, 2010
New Orleans, LA
Theme: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHIATRY
Conference Co-Chairs:
* David Brendel, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
* Peter Zachar, Ph.D. Auburn University Montgomery
The movement toward Evidence-Based Psychiatry has generated a broad range of philosophical, ethical, and practical challenges. As a medical discipline charged with diagnosing, preventing, and treating mental disorders, psychiatry depends on established knowledge and emerging empirical data from the neurosciences, genetics, psychology, and other areas of scientific inquiry. Evidence-Based Psychiatry (EBP) refers to the application of well-supported scientific knowledge to clinical problems affecting mind, brain, and behavior. EBP provides a framework for integrating the current best evidence, clinical expertise and patient values and preferences into clinical practice. A plethora of conceptual and practical questions underlie EBP:
* Can psychiatrists use empirical data alone to select the best diagnostic constructs?
* Can evidence for psychiatric treatments be trusted when much of it comes from data obtained by clinical researchers and pharmaceutical companies with a financial stake in the outcome of the studies they conduct?
* What happens when expertise conflicts with patient values and preferences?This conference will consider these and related controversies in current psychiatric research and practice. Papers pertaining to Evidence-Based Psychiatry and Evidence-Based Practice in clinical and counseling psychology are welcome.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:* What counts as valid evidence for making diagnostic and treatment decisions?
* Can clinical expertise be empirically-based?
* Do political and moral issues affect the definition of successful treatment outcome?
* What are the ethical issues in the use of treatment manuals/algorithms?
* If the best current evidence pertains primarily to patients with single disorders, how should the scientifically –informed clinician respond to multiple, complex, co-morbid disorders?
* What is the relationship between science and humanism in EBP?
* Does ‘best evidence’ vary across cultures?
* How do guild interests (psychiatry versus psychology) influence the articulation of standards of care?
Trauma, History and Subjectivity, V CONGRESO ARGENTINO DE SALUD MENTAL – 5º ENCUENTRO INTERAMERICANO DE SALUD MENTAL 6th-8th May, 2010, Buenos Aires, Hotel Panamericano
* Submission of abstracts for free communications, posters and Roundtables: Deadline March 19, 2010
* The provisional official program will be available on the web from April 5, 2010
* Changes to errors detected be accepted until 12 April 2010 to proceed with the corresponding correction
* The final agenda will be available on the web on April 19 2010. From that date changes are not allowed
* Deadline for Call for Papers to Award: 26 April 2010 at 6 pm.
* Deadline for submission of papers for the book “Trauma, History and Subjectivity” (only for the participants previously accepted for the Congress): April 1, 2010
* View selected works from April 6, 2010
WPA Regional Meeting
St. Petersburg
12th June, 2010
WPA Sections on Philosophy and History joint symposium
Epistemology and Methodology of Psychiatry
Chairs: Prof. Dr German E. Berrios (University of Cambridge, UK) and Assoc. Prof. Dr Drozdstoy St. Stoyanov (University of Medicine, Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Philosophical Perspectives on Personality Disorder
Friday 25 June
Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, UK
Personality disorder is prevalent and disabling: research suggests it affects 10-13% of the population, and is associated with social exclusion, unemployment, homelessness, substance abuse, and crime, together with feelings of isolation, rejection, and intense pain and distress. It is also stigmatizing: people with personality disorder are notoriously difficult to treat, and place heavy demands on social, medical, legal and forensic services. The aim of this workshop is to integrate philosophical, psychiatric, and legal thinking about the nature of personality disorder. Is it rightly conceived of as an illness or psychiatric condition? To what extent do people with personality disorder have the capacity to take rational decisions? To what extent can they appropriately be held responsible for their behaviour? And how can they best be helped?
Speakers:* Prof Louis Charland, University of Western Ontario
* Prof Tony Hope, University of Oxford
* Dr Steve Pearce, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust
* Prof Jill Peay, London School of Economics
* Dr Hanna Pickard, University of Oxford and Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust
* Prof Nancy Potter, University of Louisville
* Prof Peter Zachar, Auburn University
This workshop is funded by All Souls College, the Laces Trust, and the Oxford Philosophy Faculty, in association with St Cross College and the WPA.
International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry
The 2010 13th International INPP conference will be held in Manchester, UK
Real People: The Self in Mental Health and Social Care
See the conference poster here.
28th - 30th June 2010
Concepts of health and illness
1-3 September 2010, UWE, Bristol, UK
UWE, Bristol and Lancaster University; Conference funded by the AHRC
Keynote Speakers:
* Dr Jonathan Andrews (Newcastle, UK), The ‘deja la’ of madness? Continuities and shifts in the relationship between madness and death
* Prof Baroness Ilora Finlay (Cardiff & House of Lords, UK), Fear as a key driver in the assisted suicide debate
* Prof KWM Fulford (Oxford & Warwick, UK), Delusion and Spiritual Experience: Facts, Values and Concepts of Disorder in Mental Health
* Prof Lennart Nordenfelt (Linköping, Sweden), The Controversy between Naturalistic and Holistic Theories of Health and Illness
* Prof Fredrik Svenaeus (Södertörns högskola, Sweden), What is phenomenology of medicine? Embodiment, illness and being-in-the-world
* Dr Alex Wood (Manchester, UK), Conceptions of Psychological Well-Being and Illness: Sickness, Optimal Functioning, and Authenticity
Over the past three decades, various accounts of health, illness and disease have been proposed by researchers from history, sociology, law, philosophy, public health and economics. Often, however, proponents of various accounts have been isolated within their own discipline with an apparent unawareness of competing accounts. As a result, while there are now a number of different accounts of health, illness and disease available, there is no consensus about which, if any, of these accounts is ultimately acceptable and what implications each account may have.
For the project home page
Conference organisers:
* Dr Havi Carel (UWE, Bristol, UK)
* Dr Rachel Cooper (Lancaster, UK)
Embodiment, Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology
Old Lecture Hall, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
30 September – 2 October, 2010
Organised by the Department of General Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg; Interdisciplinary Forum for Biomedicine and the Humanities, Heidelberg
Some key topics:
* What is embodied intersubjectivity? In how far is our relationships with others mediated by the body?
* What is the role that embodied intersubjectivity plays for the development of social cognition?
* How can mental illness be conceived from an embodied and enactive point of view?
* What is the use of the notion of embodiment for therapy and training?
Some key speakers:
* Ezequiel Di Paolo, Matthew Ratcliffe, Beata Stawarska, Dan Zahavi (Philosophy)
* Peter Hobson, Vasu Reddy, Colwyn Trevarthen, Ed Tronick (Developmental Psychology)
* Jonathan Cole, George Downing, Giovanni Stanghellini (Neurology, Psychology, Psychiatry)
International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry
The 2011 14th International INPP conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden
Ethics, Experience and Evidence: Integration of Perspectives in Psychiatry
2nd - 4th September, 2011