About this event
- Date and time Tue 5 Oct 2021 from 8:45am to 5:00pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Psychiatry
Join a starred multidisciplinary group of speakers to hear and debate about new developments and understandings in the fields of neuroscience, social science and psychiatry, and their interrelations.
Learning objectives
- To facilitate dialogue between social scientists, including sociologists and mental health professionals, including psychiatrists
- To use the emerging field of social neuroscience as a medium through which to bring the diverse disciplines together
- To enhance mental health professionals' understanding of the concept and substance of "social" as understood in the social sciences
- To enhance social scientists' understanding of biological contributions to social relations, including relevant psychiatric issues
Meeting topics
- The "social" in social science: Larry Ray (Kent)
- The 'social' in social neuroscience – critique and ways forward: Nikolas Rose (KCL)
- The New Social Psychiatry? The Lancet Commission Report on Global Mental Health and Sustainability: Kam Bhui (Queen Mary University of London)
- The Malaise of Contemporary Societies: Alain Ehrenberg (CERMES 3, CNRS, Paris)
- Conceptions of the social world in cognitive neuroscience. Antonia Hamilton (UCL)
Tickets
Earlybird pricing available until 31 August 2021.
Member
RSM Fellow | RSM Associate | RSM Retired Fellow | RSM Trainee | RSM Student |
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£95.00 | £55.00 | £55.00 | £55.00 | £30.00 |
Non - Member
Consultant / GP | AHP / Nurse / Midwife | Trainee | BSA Member | KCL Member | Student | BSA / KCL Sociology Student |
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£150.00 | £75.00 | £75.00 | £55.00 | £55.00 | £45.00 | £30.00 |
Agenda
View the programme
Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome
Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Introduction
Professor George Ikkos, Director, Psychiatry in Dialogue with Neuroscience Medicine and Society, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Session one: The brain and the social mind
Chair: Dr Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology, King’s College London
The ecology of brain: Mental disorders as circular processes
To be confirmed
The "social" in social science
Professor Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
Question and answer session
Tea and coffee break
Session two: Approaches to 'the social'
Chair: Professor Larry Ray
The 'social' in social neuroscience – critique and ways forward
Dr Nikolas Rose
Panel discussion
Question and answer session
Lunch
Session three: Mental health services in context
Chair: Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones
The new social psychiatry? The Lancet Commission report on global mental health and sustainability
Professor Kam Bhui, Queen Mary, University of London
Cognitive neuroscience and social ideals
Alain Ehrenberg
Question and answer session
Tea and coffee break
Session four: Integrating social science, neuroscience and social psychiatry – ways forward
Chair: Professor George Ikkos
Conceptions of the social world in cognitive neuroscience
Professor Antonia Hamilton, Professor of Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Question and answer session
Panel discussion
Concluding remarks
Professor Larry Ray and Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones
Close of meeting
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom