We are pleased to announce our upcoming March webinar From Pathology to Purpose: Reiminaging The Past and Future of Mental Health with Justin Garson, PhD, Philosophy Professor at CUNY, Historian, and author of Madness: A Philosophical Exploration.
Date: Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Time: 12pm-1:30pm (Eastern)
Can't make it live? Don't worry, a recording will be sent to all registrants.
Webinar Description
Many of us want to bring about paradigm change in the shared vision of mental health and "illness." That is difficult to do, however, without understanding our past. What exactly is psychiatry’s “biomedical model” and how did it become so entrenched in our collective imagination? What are some of the paradigms that we chose to leave behind, and why? How can we best recover and promote some of those forgotten paradigms? In particular, Justin will describe a historical clash between what he calls “pathology” and “purpose” paradigms of what is termed "mental illness," and suggests that we may be witnessing, today, a transition from one to the other.
Speaker Bio
Justin Garson is a philosopher and historian of ideas at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He's the author of Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford, 2022) and the forthcoming The Madness Pill: The Quest to Create Insanity and One Doctor’s Discovery that Transformed Psychiatry (St. Martin’s Press). He also writes for PsychologyToday.com, Aeon and MadInAmerica.com on changing paradigms of mental illness.
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