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Conceptualizing Mental Illness
(Lead organizer: Keith Frankish)
In December 2006 the MMR group launched a new project on mental illness. The first phase of the project consisted of a series of seminars and a mini conference.
Seminars (all held at The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes):
Dr Matthew Broome (Psychiatry, Warwick)
Delusions, cognitive mechanisms, and the prodromal phase of psychosis (13 December 2006)
PowerPoint presentation
Related poster presentation
Related paper
Dr Broome's homepage, with online versions of some of his papers
Dr Lisa Bortolotti (Philosophy Birmingham)
Authorship in Delusion(23 January 2007)
Abstract
Dr Bortolotti's homepage, with online versions of some of her papers
Professor Tim Thornton (University of Central Lancashire)
Can we use Wittgenstein to understand delusions? (20 February 2007)
PowerPoint presentation
Related paper
Professor Thornton's homepage, with online versions of some of his papers
Dr Rachel Cooper (Lancaster University)
Against anti-psychiatry (20 March 2007)
Dr Cooper's homepage
Mini conference on mental disorder:
Wednesday 28th March 2007, 1.30-4.40 pm in Library Seminar Room 2, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.
Speakers:
- Dr Peter Naish (Biological Sciences, Open University)
Hypnosis and Psychosis - The Temporal Connection
- Professor Fred Toates (Biological Sciences, Open University)
Maladaptive thoughts - what do they tell us about cognition and behaviour? The evidence from obsessions and addictions [PowerPoint presentation]
- Dr Ilona Roth (Biological Sciences Department, Open University)
Autism Spectrum poetry and the autistic mental world
If you wish to be kept informed of future events associated with this project, please email Arts-Philosophy-Enqs@open.ac.uk.
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Schizophrenia's effect on the brain: while patients performed a working memory task, the less the prefrontal cortex (red) activated, the more dopamine increased in the striatum (green).
Source: Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, M.D., Ph.D.,
NIMH Clinical Brain Disorders Branch
Image source wikimedia commons
Freud's sofa. Photo by
Konstantin Binder
Image source wikimedia commons
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