East meets West: Cultural perspectives in medical professionalism and wellbeing
This event will provide a comparison between the UK and other cultures and how doctors view medical professionalism, with a particular focus on wellbeing.
About this event
- Date and time Tue 14 Jan 2020 from 8:30am to 5:10pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Psychiatry, History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group (HoPSIG)
This event will take a detailed look at the history of mental health and psychiatry in British society between the years of 1960-2010, a hugely interesting and distinct period in the history of Britain.
This time period is characterised by increasing dominance of ideologies of social liberalism, free markets and practices of economic neoliberalism and globalisation - it also coincides with de-institutionalisation and community care in mental health.
The meeting will focus on what happened to public mental health services during this time. Public experiences of mental health issues will be examined, along with those who were affected - individuals, family, other informal carers, formal carers and mental health professionals within the broader social context.
Topics include:
- Review the social history of psychiatry and mental health during 1960-2010
- The mutual influence between psychiatry and social change during 1960-2010
- Investigate the experiences of mental health service users and their informal carers during 1960-2010, and relate this to professional and societal aspirations at the time
- To offer an opportunity to clinicians, historians, policymakers to reflect and enhance sensitivity to mental health service users and their informal carers' needs, experiences and preferences
This meeting is organised in partnership with HoPSIG RCPsych
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Agenda
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Registration, tea and coffee
Opening of conference
Dr Valeria Mondelli, President, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Session one: The social context 1960-2010
Chair: Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Historical perspectives of mental health and psychiatry in British society
Professor Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London
Asylums, social exclusion and scandals
Dr Louise Hide, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London
Question and answer session
Tea and coffee break
Session two: Policy context: Mental health economics and law
Chair: Professor Nick Bouras, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London
Legalism, paternalism, public protection, autonomy: Evolution of mental health law principles 1958-2010
Professor George Szmukler, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Society, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
De-institutionalisation and health economics in Britain 1960-2010
Professor Paul McCrone, Professor of Health Economics, University of Greenwich
Question and answer session
Lunch
Session three: The wheels of change
Chair: Professor Tom Burns, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry, University of Oxford
The case of community psychiatry: Myths and reality
Dr Trevor Turner, Consultant Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust
Fear and public concerns: The origins of the DSPD programme
Professor Peter Tyrer, Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry, Imperial College London
Question and answer session
Tea and coffee break
Session four: Experiencing de-insitutionalisation and community care
Chair: Dr Claire Hilton, Historian in Residence, Royal College of Psychiatrists
Service use, networking and survival
Mr David Gilbert, Director, InHealth Associates
Carers perspective
Mr Paul Farmer, Chief Executive, Mind
Question and answer session
Closing remarks
Dr Valeria Mondelli
Close of meeting
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
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