Projects
We have projects aiming to:
- Develop a philosophically informed psychiatry
- Educate the public in the philosophical issues latent in psychiatric theory and practice.
Lectures and seminars
Public Lectures
One of the Mausley Philosophy Group's charitable objects is to promote broader awareness of philosophical aspects of psychiatry, and to engage with questions at the centre of psychiatry which are important to society in general. The lectures comprise talks by eminent public intellectuals to address matters important to psychiatry. They are open to the public and widely advertised for a diverse audience. The lectures last about an hour and are followed by discussion. Lectures are held up to six times per calendar year.
Seminars
The Group aims to promote solid theoretical work in psychiatry. The seminars provide a forum for clinicians and philosophers to present their work on conceptual issues. Junior staff are particularly welcome.
The seminars are intramurally advertised, aimed at a highly-motivated peer group, with advance circulation of readings. They consist of presentations lasting one hour followed by discussion. The group holds at least three per term.
Books and Essays
The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry – Cambridge University Press. Under contract. Publication 2013
This is a project to pull together, into a single volume, key writings from the phenomenological movements in philosophy with key writings on psychopathology which drew upon this movement. The Group is collating texts and translating writings on depression, obsessionality and the prodrome of schizophrenia.
Small Grants
Small grants to support projects furthering the objetives of the charity can be applied for. Currently, these will be supporting grants for sums not exceeding £1000 and will be restricted to two per year. Examples of projects would include dissemination of research, workshops, support for scholarship and health services initiatives.
Please submit:
1) a short description of your project and how it furthers a philsophically informed psychiatry (no more than one side of A4 including references - size 11 Ariel font),
2) costs and their justification,
3) a CV.
Send to adamjrthomas@gmail.com
Applications will be reveiewd by the Trustees.
Conferences and workshops
Previous conferences:
- Philosophy and Psychosis 2002.
Institute of Psychiatry.
This one day conference examined how philosophy may help us understand the mind in psychosis. - Phenomenology and Psychiatry for the 21st Century.
Institute of Psychiatry Sept 5th/6th 2005.
Interest in Phenomenology ebbed in the 1980s with the growth of the neurosciences, but in recent years there has been a swing of interest back towards phenomenology and how it relates to the new findings from neuroscience and epidemiology. This conference represents an exciting opportunity to reinvigorate and advance an important cross-disciplinary, clinical, research, and conceptual debate for 21st century psychiatry.
The conference formed a special theme in Schizophrenia Bulletin