The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Philosophy and Psychiatry Special Interest Group
Second UK Conference on Philosophy and Psychiatry
Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th October 2013
Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh
Programme
Thursday 3rd October 2013
10.00 – 10.30
Arrival, Registration, tea and Coffee
10.30 – 10.35
Welcome from Chair
Dr John Callender
Keynote Lecture, Highland Suite
10.35 – 11.15
Celebrating Jaspers’ Centenary: the Next Hundred Years
Professor Bill Fulford
11.15-11.30
Tea & coffee served
Parallel Session 1: Mental symptoms and mental states
Highland Suite
Chaired by Professor Julian Hughes
11.30 - 13.00
Mental symptoms as hybrid objects
Ivana S. Marková and German E. Berrios
Reader/Honorary Consultant in Psychiatry, Hull York Medical School
Wittgenstein's private language refutation and the 'mental state' examination
Miles Clapham, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Bedford
Parallel Session 2: Reflections on the self
Sutherland Suite
Chaired by Dr Iain Smith
11.30 - 13.00
The role of self-reflection in schizophrenia
Anke Maatz, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich
The Possibility of Altruism
Sarah Majid, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Tavistock Centre, London
13.00 - 14.00
Buffet Lunch served
Please note that Thursday 3rd October qualifies for 6 hours of CPD points and Friday 4th October qualifies for 4 hours subject to approval by the individual
member’s Peer Group
Page 1
Parallel Session 3: Mental Illness and Responsibility I
Sutherland Suite
Chaired by Dr Steve Ramplin
14.00-15.30
Mental Disorder as an Excuse
Eric Matthews, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
Attribution, Retribution and Consequences
John Callender, University of Aberdeen
Parallel Session 4: What is mental illness?
Highland Suite
Chaired by Dr Abdi Sanati
14.00-15.30
What Is To Be Diagnosed?
Jeffrey D. Bedrick, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia
Three Reasons why our Concepts of Mental and Physical Disorder Differ
Elselijn Kingma, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
15.30-15.45
Tea & coffee served
Parallel Session 5: Mental Illness and Responsibility II
Sutherland Suite
Chaired by Dr John Callender
15.45-17.15
Substantially impaired self control & moral responsibility
Steve Ramplin, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation
Trust
Reforming Mental Incapacity Defences
Elizabeth Shaw, Department of Law, University of Aberdeen
Parallel Session 6: R.D. Laing in Context
Highland Suite
Chaired by Dr Iain Smith
15.45 - 17.15
Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man. The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing,
1927-1960.
Allan Beveridge, Consultant Psychiatrist, NHS Fife
Sartre, Laing, and Phenomenological-Existential approaches to Psychopathology
Matthew Broome, University of Oxford and Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Please note that Thursday 3rd October qualifies for 6 hours of CPD points and Friday 4th October qualifies for 4 hours subject to approval by the individual
member’s Peer Group
Page 2
17.15 - 18.30
Book Club
Have you written, edited or made a major contribution to a book on
philosophy or ethics in psychiatry? If so, you may wish to ‘showcase’ this
at the conference book club. You will be offered a space for display copies
and publicity materials and will have the chance to discuss your work
with conference delegates. If you wish to do this, please send details of
your book and some biographical information to the conference
organiser, Angela Currie to acurrie@rcpsych.ac.uk
19.30
Conference Dinner, Carlton Hotel
Please note that Thursday 3rd October qualifies for 6 hours of CPD points and Friday 4th October qualifies for 4 hours subject to approval by the individual
member’s Peer Group
Page 3
Programme
Friday 4th October 2013
08.45 – 09.00
Arrival, Registration, Tea and Coffee
Keynote Lecture, Highland Suite
09.00 - 09.45
Meaning, intentionality and mental disorder
Jonathan Hill, University of Manchester
Parallel Session 7: Ethics in Practice
Highland Suite
Chaired by Dr Abdi Sanati
09.45-11.15
Is this a dilemma I see before me? Theatrical perspectives on clinical ethics in
psychiatry.
Deborah Bowman, St. George’s, University of London
Assessment of mental capacity. Ethical dilemma or technical skill?
David Findlay, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, NHS Tayside
Parallel Session 8: Personality Disorders
Sutherland Suite
Chaired by Dr Jonathan Hurlow
09.45-11.15
Personality disorders and the unsuccessful attempt to separate character from
personality
Konrad Banicki, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Slanted & Enchanted: on having good reasons not to dislike people with borderline
personality disorder
Dimitrios Chartonas, Michalis Kyratsous and Angeliki Zoumpouli, North East London, East
London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts
11.15-11.30
Tea & coffee served
Please note that Thursday 3rd October qualifies for 6 hours of CPD points and Friday 4th October qualifies for 4 hours subject to approval by the individual
member’s Peer Group
Page 4
Friday 4th October 2013
Parallel Session 9: Extended Psychiatry
Highland Suite
Chaired by Professor Julian Hughes
11.30-13.00
What is the Subject of Psychiatry? Implications of Extended Minds and Extended
Evolution in Understanding Mental Disorder.
Sean Roche, Consultant Psychiatrist, Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, Kings College
London
Psychiatry and the extended mind
Mark Sprevak, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Parallel Session 10: Coercion and Treatment
Sutherland Suite
Chaired by Dr David Findlay
11.30-13.00
The dark heart of psychiatry: drug treatment or chemical control?
Joanna Moncrieff, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London
Are We Reading The Evidence Right?
Abdi Sanati, Consultant Psychiatrist, North East London NHS Foundation Trust
13.00
Conference close and lunch
Please note that Thursday 3rd October qualifies for 6 hours of CPD points and Friday 4th October qualifies for 4 hours subject to approval by the individual
member’s Peer Group
Page 5