About this event

  • Date and time Thu 6 Mar 2025 from 9:00am to 7 Mar 2025 at 5:30pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Psychiatry

Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) is probably the single most significant figure in the history of psychiatry and, certainly, one of a handful of most impactful psychiatrists to have shaped the profession. 1926 marks 100 years since his death and this event will be an opportunity to recall his contribution and focus on significant changes since. The last century has been an incredibly fertile time for research in psychiatry but also an era during which some of its most fundamental assumptions have been challenged by its own findings in biomedical and clinical research, those of affine disciplines in social science and the humanities and the service users movement.

This two-day event will review the ambitions, images and practices of psychiatry, as they have evolved during the period under review and seek pointers for continuity and transformation in the future. It will be privileged by an exceptionally diverse group of speakers, all outstanding in their field, whether as psychiatrists, other clinicians, academics in the humanities and social sciences or service users.

By attending the meeting, you will

  • Learn about the history of psychiatry during the last 100 years. 
  • Be able to reflect on long term changes in the methodology and scientific approach to psychiatry. 
  • Find out about diverse perspectives, threats and opportunities for research and practice in psychiatry and mental health in the future. 

We would like to thank The Lambert Endowment Fund for their kind generosity and support of this meeting.

 

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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 29 January 2025.

Enjoy 25% off your booking when you register to attend both days.

Member

RSM Fellow
Day 1 Day 2
£77.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£77.00 Day 2
RSM Trainee
Day 1 Day 2
£46.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£46.00 Day 2
RSM Associate
Day 1 Day 2
£46.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£46.00 Day 2
RSM Retired Fellow
Day 1 Day 2
£46.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£46.00 Day 2
RSM Student
Day 1 Day 2
£24.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£24.00 Day 2

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors
Day 1 Day 2
£141.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£141.00 Day 2
AHP / Nurse / Midwife
Day 1 Day 2
£84.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£84.00 Day 2
Trainee
Day 1 Day 2
£84.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£84.00 Day 2
Non Healthcare Professional
Day 1 Day 2
£84.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£84.00 Day 2
Student
Day 1 Day 2
£44.00 Day 1
£10.00 Optional workshop
(optional)
£44.00 Day 2

Agenda

View the programme - Day 1 06 March 2025

Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Jacqueline Phillips-Owen, President, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Session 1: From Kraepelin to psychiatric genetics

Chair: Dr Gordana Milavić, Immediate Past President, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Beyond conceptual history: How Emil Kraepelin, Karl Jaspers and Arthur Kronfeld can teach 21st century psychiatry to ask the right questions

Professor Paul Hoff

A genetic perspective on Kraepelin's nosology

Professor Sir Michael Owen

Panel discussion

Discussant: Professor Matthew Broome

Question and answers
Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Political Ideology and Social Emotion in Psychiatry

Chair: Dr Graham Ash

Degeneration and eugenics

Professor Marius Turda, Director, Centre for Medical Humanities, Oxford Brookes University

Hans Asperger: Psychiatric diagnosis as a political and social device

Dr Francesca Brencio

Panel discussion

Discussant: Dr Claire Hilton

Question and answer
Lunch

Session 3: On madness

Chair: Dr Tassos Dimopoulos

Mad people and mad studies

Professor Peter Beresford

The continental philosophical psychiatric tradition and the dialectics of madness

Dr Alastair Morgan

Panel discussion

Discussant: Dr Iain Smith

Question and answers
Tea and coffee break

Session 4: Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry section key speaker

Chair: Dr Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa 

Emil Kraepelin’s Legacy in India

Professor Sanjeev Jain

Close of Day 1

Optional workshop

Title to be confirmed

Professor Sanjeev Jain

View the programme - Day 2 07 March 2025

Registration, tea and coffee

Session 4: Beyond Kraepelin

Chair: Dr Jacqueline Philips Owen

The impact of early adversity on trajectories of brain maturation and mental health in young adolescents

Professor Paola Dazzan

The concept of autism and its relation to neurodiversity

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen

Panel discussion

Discussant: Dr Peter Carpenter

Question and answers
Tea and coffee break

Session 5: Images of psychopathology

Chair: Professor Femi Oyebode, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham

Brain imaging and schizophrenia

Professor Stephen Lawrie

Imagi(ni)ng the Brain in Psychiatry

Professor Stephan Heckers

Images for psychiatrists: Psychopathology in the era of co-production

Professor Giovanni Stanghellini

Panel discussion

Discussant: Professor Subodh Dave, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Question and answers
Lunch

Session 6: Mental Health Services: Reality and Ambition

Chair: Dr Trudi Seneviratne OBE, Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Politics, policy and psychiatric services: De-institutionalisation and community care in Germany, Italy and the UK 1960-1990

Professor Thomas Becker

The best mental health services in the world?

Professor Merete Nordentoft

Panel discussion

Discussant: Speaker to be confirmed

Question and answers
Tea and coffee break

Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry distinguished lecture

Chair: Professor Nicol Ferrier, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Newcastle University

Emil Kraepelin and Psychiatric research today

Professor Peter Falkai, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität and the Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Munich Germany

Vote of thanks

Dr Gordana Milavić

Closing remarks

Professor George Ikkos

Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Domus - reception

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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