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A Conference organized by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, 2nd and 3rd April 2007, at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK.
A Conference organized by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, 2nd and 3rd April 2007, at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK.
A Conference organized by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, 2nd and 3rd April 2007, at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK. Podcast of the Conference
A Conference organized by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, 2nd and 3rd April 2007, at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK.
33rd Maudsley Debate This House believes that the Mental Health Bill 2006 will improve mental health care in England and Wales
32nd Maudsley Debate This house believes that charges of institutional racism in psychiatry damage patient care
17th Thomas James Okey Lecture. The 16th annual lecture on subject of drug dependence and misuse, in memory of Thomas James Okey.
31st Maudsley Debate This house believes patients and their psychiatrists should place their faith in genetics.
Welcome
Question and answer session
Fruit flies
30th Maudsley Debate This house believes child abuse is a cause of schizophrenia.
18th Aubrey Lewis Lecture Disorders Without Borders: the expanding scope of psychiatric practice. Are some psychiatric disorders over-diagnosed and over medicated? Are doctors and psychiatrists too ready to diagnose depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or personality disorder for variations in mood or conduct that would once have been considered part of the normal ups and downs of life? And does that have something to do with the fact that for each of these diagnoses, pharmaceutical companies now claim to have effective drug treatments. Or is it, perhaps, that we in the West have become too soft, too ready to reach for quick fixes to the difficulties of our children, to our own unhappiness, or to the troublesome behaviour of others? Are we seeing, in the increasing use of psychiatric drugs for such conditions ’on the borders’ of normality, a hint of a worrying future, in which the moods, desires and conduct of adults and children are routinely managed, even engineered, with psychiatric drugs? Whereas in the past such drugs were termed "chemical coshes" by their critics, who thought they were administered by a coercive state apparatus in the name of conformity, are they now used as "chemical crutches" grasped at by individuals themselves, assisted by their doctors and a consumer oriented pharmaceutical industry, in the name of a shallow or engineered contentment? But if so, how can we account for the evidence that a significant proportion of thoseprescribed such drugs do not, in fact, take them? In this talk I will review these issues - focussing on depression, ADHD and personality disorder - and examine the claims that these are over-diagnosed and over-medicated. I will suggest that we need a more complex approach to understand the growth of these diagnoses, not only addressing marketing of drugs by pharmaceutical industry, and the role of doctors, but also examining the pressures and incentives that lead to the ascription of such diagnoses and their treatment with drugs.
29th Maudsley Debate Antipsychiatry is dead: long live psychiatry. This house believes that the legacy of RD Laing was detrimental for patient care. Supporting the motion will be: Adrianne Revely, Consultant Psychiatrist and Mike Launer, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Lamont Clinic, Burnley. Opposing the motion will be: Adrian Laing, Solicitor in London and Tony David, Consultant Psychiatrist in SLAM and Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the IOP
The speakers for the motion are Dr. Harvey Gordon and Dr. Frank Tallis. Dr. Gordon is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at the Littlemore Mental Health Centre in Oxford. Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and a Clinical Psychologist. In addition to his numerous academic publications he is the author of several novels including “Killing Time” and the recent bestseller “Lovesick”. Speaking against the motion are Dr. Glenn Wilson and Ms. Cherry Potter. Dr. Wilson is a Reader in Personality at the Institute of Psychiatry. He is a pioneer in the field of evolutionary theories of sex differences, attraction and love and he is ranked within the 10 most cited British psychologists. Ms. Cherry Potter is a Journalist and Psychotherapist. She was head of screenwriting at the National Film and Television School and is well known for her articles in the Guardian and The Times as well as her latest novel “I Love you but... Seven decades of romantic comedy”.