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Lifelong Learning Lectures: Insane society: Mental health and sociology

March 20, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

FREE but booking with eventbrite is required

Peter Morrall

Tuesday 20 March 2018, 7.00pm

Speaker: Dr Peter Morrall, Centre for Lifelong Learning

The world is in a mess. Some of that mess manifests madness. However, there is an increasing focus on the individual for the root and remedying of psychological problems. Such individualisation is related directly to the centuries-old process of medicalising madness. However, the later-day resurgence of biological (and to a lesser extent, psychological) explanations of, and concomitant treatments for, brain/mind assumed dysfunction, has further narrowed and intensified the ‘clinical gaze’. Whilst not discounting individual ‘faults’, societal ‘faults’ such as poverty, inequality, financial crises, armed conflict including terrorism, ecological disaster, and rampant consumerism, have indirect and direct impact on mental health.

Other lectures in this series include:

Location: Room ATB/056, Seebohm Rowntree building, Alcuin College

Admission: is by free ticket only. Please book below.

Details

Date:
March 20, 2018
Time:
7:00 pm
Cost:
FREE but booking with eventbrite is required

Venue

Room ATB/056, Seebohm Rowntree Building
University of York
York, YO10 5DS
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