The intoxication of power: From neurosciences to hubris in healthcare and public life
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
A meeting in association with the Daedalus Trust
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The evolution of increasingly complex public life, healthcare, financial and social systems demands highly performing leadership by clinicians, managers, executives, public servants and others. This conference will explore aspects of the pathology of leadership and decision making: how it may be understood and what may be done about it.
The concept of the Hubris Syndrome postulated by Lord David Owen in 2007 compels us to study the evolving dynamics of personality and leadership in public life. An innovative perspective in this study is the inclusion of the dynamics of the nervous system including neurotransmitters and motivational systems. Exciting developments in cognitive, affective and social neuroscience and constantly evolving systems of commissioning, business and governance in healthcare, together with relentlessly changing cultures in society make this a timely, even essential conference.
Sir Michael Rawlins, President Royal Society of Medicine will open the conference.
The aim of the conference will be to integrate emerging knowledge from neuroscience, social sciences and organisational governance to nourish benevolent leadership and create effective constraints to hubris and related conditions.
How can we contain hubris and nourish benevolent leadership?
How can we prevent collusion with hubris in groups and develop effective governance constraints?
How can we create cultures of cooperation, accountability, creativity and effectiveness in diverse institutions in society?
8.30 am |
Registration and coffee |
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Session 1 - From power to hubris |
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| Chair: Professor George Ikkos, President, RSM Psychiatry Section | |
9.00 am |
Welcome |
| Sir Michael Rawlins, President, Royal Society of Medicine | |
9.05 am |
Political power and psychopathology |
| Professor Nassir Ghaemi, Director Mood Disorders Programme and Professor of Psychiatry Tufts University USA | |
9.30 am |
How power corrupts |
| Dr Ricardo Blaug, Director, Centre for the Study of Democracy and Reader in Democracy and Political Theory, University of Westminster | |
9.55 am |
Puppet masters or umpires? The perils of modern bank regulation |
| Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor and Assistant Editor, The Financial Times | |
10.20 am |
Respondent |
| Lord Robert Skidelsky, Director, Centre for Global Studies | |
10.25 am |
Brief questions and answers |
10.40 am |
Coffee |
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Session 2 - Hubris and neuroscience |
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| Chair: Dr Peter Garrard, Reader in Neurology, St George's, University of London | |
11.00 am |
From intoxication to addiction: Neurobiological substrates for hubris? |
| Professor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, University of Cambridge | |
11.25 am |
The biology of exuberance in the financial markets |
| Dr John Coates, Research Fellow in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience, Judge School of Business, Cambridge University | |
11.50 am |
The emotional brain and decision making |
| Professor Guy Claxton, Professor of Learning Sciences and Co-Director, Centre for Real World Learning, University of Winchester | |
12.15 pm |
Respondent |
| Lord John Alderdice, Psychoanalyst and Formerly Convenor Northern Ireland Assembly | |
12.20 pm |
Discussion |
12.45 pm |
Lunch |
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Session 3 - Preventing and responding to hubris: Individual approaches |
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| Chair: Dr Irene Cormac, President Elect, RSM Psychiatry Section and Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire | |
1.25 pm |
Doctors, power and their performance |
| Professor Alastair Scotland OBE, Founding Director (2001-2011) National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) | |
1.50 pm |
Selection, coaching and mentoring |
| John Harris, Steering Committee Chair, Daedalus Trust | |
2.15 pm |
Respondent |
| Dr Jonathan Rowson, Director, Social Brain Project, Royal Society of Arts | |
2.20 pm |
Brief questions and answers |
2.30 pm |
Tea |
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Session 4 - Preventing and responding to hubris: Organisational approaches |
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| Chair: Professor Nick Bouras, Chair, Daedalus Trust Research Committee and Programme Director, Maudsley International | |
2.50 pm |
The social brain: Neuroscience perspectives on empathy, trust and cooperation |
| Dr Jamie Ward, Reader in Psychology, University of Sussex | |
3.15 pm |
Using the social brain: Cooperation, democracy and shared values as responses to hubris |
| Warren East, Chief Executive Officer, ARM Holdings | |
3.45 pm |
Directions for future research and practice |
| Panel discussion and audience participation: All speakers and respondents | |
4.25 pm |
Closing remarks |
| The Rt Hon Lord Owen, Member of the House of Lords | |
4.45 pm |
Close of meeting |
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Meeting ref: PYD01 CPD (Applied for) |
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