Mental Health In-patient Care
Professor Scott Weich talks about recent research into mental health in-patient care
Political Economy of Illness, Death and Violence in Yucatecan Maya Society
(ocanto@uady.mx) is a tenured researcher and immediate past director of the
Creativity and Spontaneity in the Classroom
social dance, choreography, music, invention, spontaneity, creativity, art, expression, life, performance, lively, chance, idea, stanford, north and south, steps
Dendrite Morphogenesis and Channel Regulation: Implications for Mental Health and Neurological Disor
Lily and Yuh-Nung Jan have been pioneers in the field of molecular neurobiology for more than 30 years, and their genetic studies of fruit flies and mice have provided major insights into many different aspects of brain function and development. In this joint lecture, they summarize their recent work on the genetic control of
"AIDS Is an Illness of People of Color": Health Service Organizations Advocate Increased Federal Fun
In 1981, the U.S. medical community noticed a significant number of gay men living in urban areas with rare forms of pneumonia, cancer, and lymph disorders. The cluster of ailments was initially dubbed Gay-Related Immune Disease (GRID), but when similar illnesses increased in other groups, the name ...
3.2 Using mental images
The most ‘important and greatest puzzle’ we face as humans is ourselves (Boring, 1950, p. 56). Humans are a puzzle – one that is complex, subtle and multi-layered, and it gets even more complicated as we evolve over time and change in different contexts.
When answering the question ‘What makes us who we are?’, psychologists put forward a range of explanations about why people feel, think and behave the way they do. Just when psychologists seem to understand one bit of ‘who we are’
2 The Turner Prize: an annual farce or a celebration of creativity?
In this unit you’ll explore art history. Look around you, it’s likely that wherever you are you’ll be able to see some images, it’s also likely that many of these image will be intended to have some sort of effect on you. Here you will be exploring the power of images via a study of contemporary art from the 1980s onwards. Taking the time to look beyond the immediate appearance of an art work to consider what the artist might be trying to say can be immensely rewarding.
5.3 Freedom from our mental limitations: simulation models We have been increasingly liberated from our cognitive limitations thanks to innovations in information and communication technologies. The first symbolic representations painted on cave walls gradually evolved into writing, and this form of recording, storing and sharing information became accessible to everyone who could read 1.7 The limits of mental modelling We are constantly reminded in the media how intellectually and emotionally ‘superior’ we are to other species on Earth. The locus of this superiority is apparently our brains. By the time our species reaches adulthood, our ratio of brain size to body size (the ‘encephalisation quotient’) is three times greater than our closest relatives, the pri Episode 54: Adolescents and Mental Illness Psychiatrist Prof Patrick McGorry discusses how evolving treatment modalities can address disturbing trends of increased mental illness in young adults and adolescents. With host Jacky Angus. Professor Patrick McGorr Symbolising New Zealand: Session 4 - Symbolising the shadow-side of New Zealand experience in contem 10 White Paper: Mental Health Reform 13 Method in Their Madness or Madness in Their Method? 20 Crime and illness: the thin blue line 23 Are men bad for women's mental health The Stigma of Mental Illness: Inevitable or unjustifiable? 38 There would be no genius without madness IPL - Concepts of liberty in mental health law IPL: Concepts of liberty in mental health law A Mental Switch
Section 5 Readings – Complexity and chaos
5.3 Freedom from our mental limitations: simulation models
Section 1 Readings– Thinking styles and models
1.7 The limits of mental modelling
Guest
Alistair Fox presents "Symbolising the shadow-side of New Zealand experience in contemporary literature and film".
The Centre for Research on National Identity - Symbolising New Zealand conference.
Held September 10, 2010.
The 10th Maudsley Debate was held on Thursday July 5th on the topic of mental health law reform. A lively audience of service users, psychiatrists, and health care professionals including the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists attended the debate, which was chaired by Professor Tom Fahy. Before hearing the arguments of the speakers only 2% of the audience supported the motion and the implementation of the Government White Paper on Mental Health with 61% opposed and a substantial 37%
13th Maudsley Debate
'Method in Their Madness or Madness in Their Method?'
This house believes that the public's reaction to terrorism is more irrational than the terrorists' motivation and behaviour
Date: 23 January 2002 18:00
20th Maudsley Debate
Crime and illness: the thin blue line?
This house believes that criminals need treatment not punishment
Proposing the motion:Prof. John Gunn, Forensic Psychiatry, IOP and Prof. Christopher Cordess, Forensic Psychiatry, University of Sheffield.
Opposing the motion: BRENDAN O'NEILL - Assistant Editor, SPIKED PHILIP BEAN - Director, Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice
Feelings ran high at this debate touching on gender issues within psychiatric services. The audience started the evening strongly behind the motion supporting gender-segregated in-patient services but with a number of voters waiting to be persuaded.
The proposers of the motion centred their arguments on issues of women’s safety and were opposed by a counter-attack emphasising the importance of patient choice. We heard several women service users give heartfelt testimony to their experience of
Institute of Psychiatry / Gresham College Lectures
Institute of Psychiatry / Maudsley Debates
Professor John Dawson, Faculty of Law,
Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given on September 6, 2007.
Professor John Dawson, Faculty of Law
Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given on September 6, 2007.
How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?
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