[csaa-forum] Nikolas Rose public lecture, "Our Psychiatric Future? The politics of mental health" Oct 30

[Thao Phan]

Join the Deakin SSN for "Our Psychiatric Future? The politics of mental
health", a public lecture presented by Nikolas Rose, Professor of
Sociology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College
London.

*Register:*
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Abstract

Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and
discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of
psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is there really an epidemic
of mental ill health? Is mental distress really an illness like any other,
treatable by drugs? Are psychiatric diagnoses like any other medical
diagnoses, and will they eventually be validated by physiological or
genetic biomarkers? Has neurobiological research finally shown that mental
ill heath arises from disorders of the brain? Do the psychiatric drugs that
so many of us take actually treat the bases of mental distress? What are we
to make of the growing Global Mental Health Movement which seeks to extend
the styles of thought and practice developed in the Global North to the
Global South? Should the power of psychiatrists be challenged by the
knowledge of those with lived experience of mental ill health? And what are
the implications of the evidence that mental distress is intrinsically
linked to social adversity, from individual trauma and loneliness to
poverty, racism and social exclusion? The answers we give to these
questions will shape the psychiatric futures that are being brought into
existence. On the basis of a rigorous analysis of current research, Nikolas
Rose proposes a radically different future for psychiatric thought and
practice, no less evidence-based and indeed far more attuned to the
realities of mental health, and argues that, as a branch of social
medicine, another psychiatry is possible.

Presenter Bio

Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health
and Social Medicine at King’s College London. He is a social and political
theorist, with a particular focus on questions of political power, mental
health, psychiatry and neuroscience. His work explores how scientific
developments have changed conceptions of human identity and governance and
what this means for our political, socio-economic and legal futures.

Trained as a biologist, a psychologist and a sociologist, Rose co-founded
two influential radical journals in the 1970s and 1980s, playing a key role
in introducing French post-structuralist critical thought to an English
speaking audience and helping develop new approaches to political analysis
and strategy. He has published widely across numerous fields and
disciplines, with work translated into 13 languages. He is a former
Managing Editor of *Economy and Society *and Joint Editor-in-Chief of the
interdisciplinary journal, *BioSocieties*. His recent books include *Neuro:
The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind,* Princeton
University Press, 2013 (written with Joelle Abi-Rached) and *Our
Psychiatric Future: The politics of mental health*, Polity, 2019. His
current work seeks to develop new relations between the social sciences and
the life sciences, partly through research on mental health, migration and
megacities: his forthcoming book *The Urban Brain: Living in the
Neurosocial City* (with Des Fitzgerald) will be published by Princeton
University Press in 2019.

*Register:*
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