Anthony Morgan, convenor of “Schizophrenia: 100 Years On,” writes: 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the diagnosis of schizophrenia, the most severe, enigmatic and controversial of mental disorders. At a time when biological and neuroscientific accounts of schizophrenia dominate, there is a risk that crucial questions are Read more…
Degeneration and the Cultural Birth of Schizophrenia A seminar by Philip Thomas, psychiatrist, philosopher, author of The Dialectics of Schizophrenia and co-author of Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World. Seminar 4 in the Newcastle Philosophical Society’s series “Schizophrenia –100 Years On” Saturday 21 May 2011, 2pm, The Cedar Room Read more…
I was lucky enough to attend an extraordinary conference over the break entitled: “Daniel Paul Schreber centenary – 200 years of Sonnenstein: The Modern Experience and the Performance of Paranoia.” The full report appears here on H-Madness, the history of psychiatry blog. Here are some additional photos: A video of Read more…
What does it mean to hear voices that others cannot? (‘auditory verbal hallucinations’ in psychiatric parlance’) Many, perhaps most, would claim it to be a symptom of a brain disease or a mental illness. Indeed, hearing voices is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a Read more…
Mark Creswell, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University Between Sedgwick and Szasz: Schizophrenia as ‘Illness’ and ‘Myth’ Seminar 3 in the Newcastle Philosophical Society’s series “Schizophrenia –100 Years On” Monday 18th April 2011, 7pm, The Cedar Room (Upstairs at the Dog and Parrot, 52 Clayton Street West, Newcastle, NE1 Read more…
Emotional Experience in Depression: A Philosophical Study is a three-year AHRC-DFG funded project lead by Matthew Ratcliffe and Achim Stephan. Its aim, quite simply, is “to provide the first ever detailed, systematic philosophical study of the nature and role of altered mood, emotion and feeling in depression.” The Phenomenology of Read more…
Survivors of Torture – Broken Minds and Voices Tony Wright, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture The second seminar in the Newcastle Philosophical Society’s seminar series “Schizophrenia – 100 Years On” Monday 28th March 2011, 7pm The Cedar Room, Upstairs at the Dog and Parrot, 52 Clayton Read more…
I am delighted to have been invited by Anthony Morgan to give the inaugural talk in his seminar series for the Newcastle Philosophical Society entitled “Schizophrenia 100 Years On”. My talk “Schizophrenia: 100 Years of Controversy” will start at 7pm in the Cedar Room, Upstairs at The Dog and Parrot, Read more…