Diversity and Mental Illness
Date: 24th of October 2018, St Catherine’s College, Manor Road, OX1 3UJ
The workshop is a part of TORCH’s annual headline series Humanities & Identities
Organizers: Marcin Moskalewicz & Bill Fulford
8.30 Registration
8.45 Welcome
9.00 Michael A. Schwartz (Texas A&M) Celebrating conformity – not diversity – of human personality and temperament
9.45 Giovanni Stanghellini (University of Chieti) In search for pheno-phenotypes: The example of feeding and eating disorders
10.30 Refreshments break
10.45 Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck University of London) Madness and the limits of recognition
11.15 Edmund O'Toole (National University of Ireland, Galway) The Psychopathologizing of Diversity
11.45 Rhys Southan (University of Oxford) No Depressives and No Autistics: Challenges for Accepting Neurodiversity
12.15 Maren Behrensen (University of Münster, Germany) & Sofia Kaliarnta (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands) The Politics of Depression and Depressive Politics
12.45 Lunch Break
13.45 Posters session (see below)
14.45 Victoria Allison-Bolger (Lancaster) What delusions tell us about ourselves
15.15 Abdi Sanati (East London NHS Foundation Trust) Delusions in the age of diversity
15.45 Refreshments break
16.00 Camillia Kong (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), The Hermeneutics of Recovery: Facilitating Dialogue Between African and Western Mental Health Frameworks
16.30 Francesca Brencio (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Living as human being. From homo natura to homo existentia
17.00 Closing remarks
Posters Session
Shiri Gonen Avital (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) Cultural diversity among parents of children with Learning Disabilities from four ethnic groups in Israel
Roxana Baiasu (Oxford University) The Privilege of the Mental Otherness Standpoint
Valeria Bizzari (University of Heidelberg), A Spontaneous Transgressive: Asperger’s syndrome and common sense
Sarah Chan (Oxford) The Minority Mind as a Theory of Mental Disability
Helen Chen (Copenhagen) How The Therapist's Pre-Existing Knowledge Can Bias The Psychotherapeutic Process
Kata Dóra Kiss (University of Pécs, Hungary) The Advantages of the IPA method in diagnostic processes
Renata Łukiewicz-Kostro (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), Katarzyna Szczekala, Anna Goś (Medical University of Lublin) Insane or the Wise?! Search for Unity within Diversity.
Dorota Halina Kutyła (University of Warsaw) Istina Mavet's "Folly", which is not what Foucault has
Domenico Melidoro (Luiss University of Rome) Dealing with Diversities: Ethnocultural, Physical, Mental
Kevin Sludds Depression – Our Friend in Wolf’s Clothing
Dominik Stosik (Wrocław Medical University) Neurodiversity – What will a person-centered approach to mental disorders gain from assuming the diversity perspective?
Andrew Sutcliffe (King’s College London), The Resurgence of Temperament: Might classical ideas find modern expression
Monika Syc, Jan Godyń (Cogito Academy of Leaders, Krakow, Poland) Movement of experts through experience – the Cogito Academy of Leaders – counteracting stigma of mental illness
Humanities & Identities
Contact name: Marcin Moskalewicz
Contact email: moskalewicz@gmail.com
Audience: Open to all
