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Ethnic Inequalities in Experience of Mental Distress and Illness and Case – Kam Bhui
Over six decades of research confirm there are ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of severe mental illness. Notably, black and minority ethnic communities experiences a higher incidence of psychoses, as do migrants more generally. They experience more coercive care pathways, namely more crisis and emergency care, police contact, criminal justice system contact, and compulsory care under the powers of the Mental Health Act. These findings are replicated in Europe and North America. The reasons for these differences have been debated, some arguing they meet treatment needs, and others arguing that they are manifestations of structural racism. Efforts to tackle inequalities face challenges due to conflict, resistance and direct opposition. In today’s lecture, Kam Bhui will share his views on conceptual confusions, causes, and remedies by drawing on recent Lived Experience Data on compulsory treatment, other research and campaigns over three decades.
This is the eleventh lecture in the London Lecture Series 2023/24, which this year is on the subject of Madness and Mental Health. Watch the whole series here: ua-cam.com/play/PLqK-cZS_wviD4i_zvM3cXuRZNgy_FWk6a.html
About the speaker
Kam Bhui is a professor of psychiatry and Hon. consultant psychiatrist, undertaking eco-social, syndemic, and health and social systems research. Through his research, Kam seeks to improve policy and practice, reduce health inequalities and adverse health outcomes, such as persistent mental illness, suicide, and premature mortality due to chronic long-term conditions, and advance research methods and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Kam has established an international Centre of Excellence on cultural psychiatry practice, research and teaching (psyarxiv.com/2kqbp/) and led the Synergi Collaborative Centre (synergicollaborativecentre.co.uk/) a national partnership to understand and tackle ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness.
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The Person in Psychiatry: An Ecohumanist, Enactive Approach - Sanneke de Haan
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What is a mental illness? Are mental problems the results of mere genetic bad luck? Or should we see them as meaningful responses to a person’s situation? In this lecture, Sanneke de Haan sets out an approach to psychiatry that tries to do justice to both sides, embracing the human being both as an organism and as a person. This is the tenth lecture in the London Lecture Series 2023/24, which t...
How Can We Make Progress in Mental Healthcare Research - Neil Armstrong and Nicola Byrom
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Many mental healthcare practitioners know that things are not alright. They know that many patients feel disempowered and harmed by the process. One nurse has told Dr Armstrong that “my son could easily be diagnosed with bipolar disorder but over my dead body will he ever see a psychiatrist”. There is a lot of anthropological work on the topic of mental health, and some of these works can provi...
How (Not) to Talk to Young People about Mental Health - RoseMcCabe, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim
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“When you’re a young person, your identity is so malleable… It’s very easy for a label to become enmeshed with your sense of identity”. Agency and mental health are intrinsically related. Most mental health problems appear before the age of 25, at a time when people are still developing their sense of agency. The sense of agency is that feeling that you can shape your own life through actions a...
Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity - Claire Hogg
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How do we understand the relationship between culpability and mental disorder? When a person who suffers from some mental health issue commits a crime, should she get a lighter treatment? In this lecture, Claire Hogg explores the different ways in which different laws justify why a person with a mental health issue should get a lighter treatment. This is the seventh lecture in the London Lectur...
Presidential Address 2024 - Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Jo Wolff is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. He was named the new President of The Royal Institute of Philosophy in October 2023, and in May 2024 he gave his inaugural Presidential Address. A political philosopher, he has worked on questions of inequality, disadvantage,socia...
Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine - Somogy Varga & Andrew J. Latham
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What are health and disease? If a condition is considered a disease, then it changes how we view the individuals with that condition and also how that condition will be targeted by public health policy, insurance coverage and even research focus. In this lecture, Somogy Varga and Andrew Latham explore some issues involved in the classification of a condition as a disease. Instead of taking a pu...
Who Gets to Call Whom Mad? And With What Right? - Richard Gipps
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Who gets to decide, and on what basis, who is mad? Who gets to say what is reality and who is delusional? We can say that John is mad because he thinks aliens are after him. Such a claim seems to make sense; after all, there are no aliens after John. John has a false belief. But why does that false belief serve as a basis for calling John mad? We all have some false beliefs. Is it because the b...
Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders - Mona Gupta
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In this lecture, Mona Gupta explores the problem of suicide and its relationship to assisted dying. Mona Gupta explores some of the terms and concepts used in the Canadian law that allows assisted dying, a law that does not clearly distinguish it from suicide. What are the grounds for distinguishing assisted dying from suicide? - About the speaker Mona Gupta is Associate Professor in the Depart...
Power Threat Meaning Framework: An Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis -Mary Boyle & Lucy Johnstone
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Language isn’t just about the words we use, but also about the effects of those words. What is the common language of mental distress? “Diagnosis”, “medication”, “brain disorder”, “chemical imbalance”… It’s the language of medicine and it has consequences. It suggests that our emotional and behavioural difficulties can be understood in the same way as malfunctioning body parts. This, in turn, c...
A Flaw in the Great Diamond of the World: On Contemporary Psychology and Subjectivity - Louis Sass
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Analysing subjectivity is unlike analysing anything else. The way we conceptualise ourselves alters our own nature. The process of self-interpretation is also a process of self-constitution. Conscious awareness is the flaw in the great diamond of the world. It is an irreducible gap in what might otherwise have been a satisfying objectivist naturalised picture of the universe. In this lecture, P...
Against Speaking Up: A Defence of Silence - Professor Havi Carel & Dr Dan Degerman
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In philosophy, it has been widely discussed how people who suffer from mental health conditions do not have their voices heard. Many times, patients are not just not heard but also silenced. However, is silence always a bad thing in the treatment of mental health conditions? What role does silence play? In this lecture, Professor Havi Carel and Dr Dan Degerman explore how silencing plays itself...
Ishani Maitra - Humour as Counter-Speech
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How should we address hateful speech? In this Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture, Professor Maitra discusses why we should prefer counter-speech as a response to hate speech, as well as the reasons for worrying that counter-speech is not effective as a response.
Jane Heal - On Discussing What We Should Do
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A Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture, presented by Jane Heal, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. There are valuable things which are essentially social, for example our singing together in our choir. Such goods are central to our lives going well. So when our choir faces a difficult choice, we will need to discuss what we should do, what would make things go wel...
Elisabeth Camp: Stories and Selves
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Elisabeth Camp: Stories and Selves
Robin Dembroff - Real Men on Top
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Robin Dembroff - Real Men on Top
Robert Brandom - What is Philosophy?
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Robert Brandom - What is Philosophy?
Emma Borg - What Is It To Be Responsible For What You Say?
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Emma Borg - What Is It To Be Responsible For What You Say?
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt - How Hate Speech Works
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Mihaela Popa-Wyatt - How Hate Speech Works
Andrew Hines: Misunderstanding and Meaning
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Andrew Hines: Misunderstanding and Meaning
"Can Consciousness be Explained?" - Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate 2022
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"Can Consciousness be Explained?" - Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate 2022
Louise Antony: Against Amelioration
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Louise Antony: Against Amelioration
David Sosa: How To Get About
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David Sosa: How To Get About
Mari Mikkola: Prejudicial Speech: What's A Liberal To Do?
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Mari Mikkola: Prejudicial Speech: What's A Liberal To Do?
Chad Hansen: A Modern Look At Ancient Chinese Theory Of Language
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Chad Hansen: A Modern Look At Ancient Chinese Theory Of Language
Luvell Anderson: Racial Realities
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Luvell Anderson: Racial Realities
Ernie Lepore: Slurring Words and Slurring Articulations
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Ernie Lepore: Slurring Words and Slurring Articulations
Linda Martín Alcoff: The Return of Cultural Racism
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Linda Martín Alcoff: The Return of Cultural Racism
Empowering Teenage Citizens - Martin O'Neill
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Empowering Teenage Citizens - Martin O'Neill
'Work - A Short History of a Modern Concept': Axel Honneth - TRIP/Dublin Annual Lecture 2021
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'Work - A Short History of a Modern Concept': Axel Honneth - TRIP/Dublin Annual Lecture 2021

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @heliumcalcium396
    @heliumcalcium396 4 дні тому

    If you have two competing theories, and they're empirically equivalent -- that is, there is no way you can ever determine that one of them is false -- that's a strong hint that you're trying to understand something that doesn't actually exist.

  • @JagadguruSvamiVegananda
    @JagadguruSvamiVegananda 4 дні тому

    FIRST! 🎉 Equality is non-existent in this phenomenal sphere. Equality exists in abstract ideas such as mathematics and arguably on the sub-atomic level ALONE.🤓 UNFORTUNATELY, it requires an intelligence quotient above double-digits in order to be able to comprehend such truthful concepts. 😛

  • @karentonks7581
    @karentonks7581 8 днів тому

    Although it is a complex comprehensive framework, when simplified it is common sense

  • @BehindDesign
    @BehindDesign 8 днів тому

    A - Prove the existence of God B - Prove your own consciousness A - Look I have a brain B - I just see electrons and neutrons moving around, where is your consciousness? A - Come on, there is an experience behind these physical processes!!! B - Now apply this to universe...

  • @BehindDesign
    @BehindDesign 8 днів тому

    The question about the existence of God does not call for material evidence, but call for evidence of a consciousness in universe. At the moment there is evidence for consciousness in universe, us. So God is a valid possibility... not just that... maybe it is the only possibility.

  • @Life_42
    @Life_42 17 днів тому

    I love the music at the beginning of each video!

  • @jordanoconnor3148
    @jordanoconnor3148 21 день тому

    Wow excellent question at 1hr 2mins

  • @bismillah5060
    @bismillah5060 22 дні тому

    Schizophrenic: *stabs mother to death during a psychotic episode because they thought she was a demon* What these people want the mental health clinician to say: "You stabbing your mother to death was VALID!" What are we even talking about here!

    • @jordanoconnor3148
      @jordanoconnor3148 21 день тому

      I honestly have no idea how this is what you took away from the lecture. Emotional validation =\= justification of actions Validating emotions to foster agency in vulnerable people such as those with mental health problems, is what they're trying to show people how to do

  • @timwalling3101
    @timwalling3101 24 дні тому

    Can Consciousness be Explained? yes it is drivel you need to think about awareness and leave delusion out of the equasion

  • @husserliana
    @husserliana 29 днів тому

    Hugely important and under-appreciated perspective. The psychological sciences--including psychoanalysis would benefit from a more fine-grained appreciation of subjectivity. It would promote more empathic therapies and more respect for the differences in others' experience that are often explained away by the mechanistic/objectivist frameworks that undergird conventional mental health models.

  • @mawalir937
    @mawalir937 Місяць тому

    Why can't the Brits ever get to the point besides the annoying accent.

  • @paxdriver
    @paxdriver Місяць тому

    Fatal flaw: the impoverished are undeniably the most oppressed people on earth, regardless of any other group. I didn't even see poor people on that list, but Paki is a slur tantamount to Yanke? Canuck isn't on the list, presumably that's because we've named a sports team after it, and we all know sports teams always have moral purity in the nomenclature. As a Canadian I'm not offended by racial, or gendered, or orientation because I realize all of that prejudice is clearly meaningless to anyone who has a brain. What is treated as meaningless but actually is the worst subjugated (poverty), is never addressed - including this lecture (unless conjecturing with prejudice that the poverty must be a symptom of race and couldn't possibly be a person or the state's infantalization of a "group"... Don't you see the contradiction here? You presume knock on effects of words and exclusion to combat what you perceive as painful to others, but none of this matters to a mildly educated person, yet the biggest factor of financial status or mental health doesn't even trip the radar because you just know these people over here and there because they were oppressed the most, despite the data. Hate speech is a joke when you pretend society thinks it's ok because since growing up in the 90's, I've never been in a public place where everyone around didn't chastised a person performing hate speech even though it isn't illegal. It's a moray, and one of the strongest I can think of. But nobody even cares about debt traps and predatory commercialism to the impoverished, openly and casually even though they're the most oppressed in North America by far. It's borderline hypocritical, imho.

  • @paxdriver
    @paxdriver Місяць тому

    This was the perfect mix of philosophy and law. Loved this lecture, thanks so much for the upload.

  • @andysee6045
    @andysee6045 Місяць тому

    Main part of speech is 53:20 to 56:00. He makes it clear throughout he detests nationalism, and although he doesn't believe in ceremonies, he thinks it would be a good idea to use "subnational and cross-national groups identified through the mechanism of ceremonies" to undermine nationalism. That is why he is studying ceremonies. But is nationalism all bad? Why does he want so badly to undermine it?

  • @hughoxford8735
    @hughoxford8735 Місяць тому

    You might want to re-title this "insane" for our American cousins. Mad means angry over there.

  • @Ergoplato
    @Ergoplato Місяць тому

    Interesting topic and I really tried to power through, but the speaker’s manner of talking is very incoherent to me. It’s really difficult to follow when a sentence or thought isn’t fully formed before moving on to the next one.

  • @davecurry8305
    @davecurry8305 Місяць тому

    Just a reminder: no fire drills are planned. So you can safely ignore any alarm bells that accidentally go off.

  • @shortyrags
    @shortyrags Місяць тому

    Language is only necessary for consciousness if your definition encapsulates introspection as a prerequisite for consciousness. Which I find patently absurd. I would argue that all mammalian animals possess consciousness but are not introspective in the way that necessitates language.

  • @justinbowen678
    @justinbowen678 Місяць тому

    This was a wonderful talk! I hope we will see more consideration of the Power Threat Meaning Framework and other alternatives in the field of mental health

  • @andysee6045
    @andysee6045 Місяць тому

    The Royal Institute of Philosophy seems to be in a death spiral, as nearly all the lectures end up blaming white men for the ills of the world. Here we have two women who suggest that all mental problems are a result of power imbalances, and all their examples are of female survivors, as if men don't count. Men are more likely to commit suicide, but who cares? Not them.

  • @user-iv6ft3ci7m
    @user-iv6ft3ci7m Місяць тому

    This is great we need more videos like this, exploring the philosophy and ideas around gender in such a positive way

  • @TimberWolfmanV6
    @TimberWolfmanV6 2 місяці тому

    Could use some inner peace to aid ease the thought process to that still place where all the answers you are

  • @Steiwerd
    @Steiwerd 2 місяці тому

    Phillip be like: Where the metaphysics at?

  • @seanli3757
    @seanli3757 2 місяці тому

    LOL!!!!! finally update

  • @andysee6045
    @andysee6045 2 місяці тому

    It distinctly starts about healthcare, but then veers into Black Lives Matter and the Me Too movement, and completely forgets about healthcare. Then the usual beatification of minorities and demonisation of men, politicians, the police and white people.

  • @MatthewMcVeagh
    @MatthewMcVeagh 2 місяці тому

    Seems an elaborate theoretical framework for some pretty basic practical points. And ones that don't have much to do with philosophy so much as specific ethical guidelines for mental health, which is applied ethics at most.

    • @monke3552
      @monke3552 2 місяці тому

      Everything you said is technically correct but it ignores the fact that philosophy is practically useless outside of applied ethics

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh 2 місяці тому

      @@monke3552 What on Earth gives you that idea?

    • @monke3552
      @monke3552 2 місяці тому

      @@MatthewMcVeagh Note the use of the word practically

    • @jsblastoff
      @jsblastoff 2 місяці тому

      I was thinking the exact same thing!

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh 2 місяці тому

      @@monke3552 LOL you changed your wording, you said "practically useless outside of mental health" before!

  • @GerardSans
    @GerardSans 2 місяці тому

    I think the guests should qualify “human” consciousness if that’s what they are talking about.

  • @hoffmanitochka
    @hoffmanitochka 2 місяці тому

    So primitive questions about consciousness.. you guys just like squirrels in a wheel. That's all you have to do is to accept that the mind has intangible nature!

  • @longcastle4863
    @longcastle4863 2 місяці тому

    Calling something a controlled hallucination is poisoning the well

  • @longcastle4863
    @longcastle4863 2 місяці тому

    Consciousness can be explained quite well from the perspective of biological evolution

  • @badmudasucka
    @badmudasucka 2 місяці тому

    This man is a genius.

  • @StonewallStudios
    @StonewallStudios 2 місяці тому

    Surely the potential of consciousness and unconsciousness existed before, during and after the big bang ... long before homo sapiens became aware of consciousness and named it. If this is true, then how might the potential of consciousness and the potential of unconsciousness exist without either being aware of their individual and combined potential?

    • @heliumcalcium396
      @heliumcalcium396 4 дні тому

      The big bang has nothing to do with it, and a potential is not aware of anything.

  • @putratunggal0243
    @putratunggal0243 3 місяці тому

    ❤ Islam

  • @TheWhitehiker
    @TheWhitehiker 3 місяці тому

    Starts at 3.15. Goff and Antony seem to prioritize clarity, in stark contrast to the others, who insist on the jargon of academe. I vote for Goff and Antony.

  • @protonman8947
    @protonman8947 3 місяці тому

    Well done.

  • @josephcollins6033
    @josephcollins6033 4 місяці тому

    Not sure I would listen to anything Chalmers said after seeing that picture...

  • @alphaomega1089
    @alphaomega1089 4 місяці тому

    It is natural a system has an internal existence. It is strange its waste is useful as well. As if not itself. Human, and AI, can see beyond self to create. I have no idea why encircle more unless makes life easier.

  • @DanjunaDJ
    @DanjunaDJ 4 місяці тому

    My take on it after listening to everything I can find in consciousness is: Consciousness is an organisms subjective, predictive experience and memory of its internal and external environment with the goal of obtaining energy to resist entropy. It emerges from the unified accumulative processes of living cells and organisms that have evolved in a community for an evolutionary advantage to keep the sum and parts of the system alive. It is the reactive narration of our sensory experience of the environment by the many organisms that have symbiotically evolved inside us. As the sum of our parts are neither alive or consciousness then the whole cannot obtain something from nothing. It is a complex chemical conversation our atoms are having with the external world. The language... Chemistry and physics. It is why when you are sedated and your senses are Numb, and thus your internal organisms and systems receive no input, so have nothing to say, our collective voice (consciousness) goes silent. It's just unfathomable to imagine the amount of cells and time that 1 cell had to harmoniously evolve into trillions to create the perception of 1 voice and why AI may simulate but never achieve our level of consciousness.

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL
    @REDPUMPERNICKEL 4 місяці тому

    1:27:00 Everyone should be taught that sound reduces by the square of the distance. i.e. The sound energy impinging on a microphone when the lips are 1x distant is 4x greater than the energy impinging when the lips are 2x distant.

  • @ralphdavidson9542
    @ralphdavidson9542 4 місяці тому

    Looking at the panel I doubt anyone suggesting that consciousness could be transcendental will be taken seriously. We think we know so much but that's just arrogance. We don't know there isn't a deity.

  • @ALavin-en1kr
    @ALavin-en1kr 5 місяців тому

    So great that they are stymied and will always be stymied by consciousness. It is one thing that cannot be interfered with by people who do not know what they are doing, Consciousness is not dual, it is beyond motion, the three forces etc. It is beyond the range of duality of good and evil. Consciousness is where material science reaches its limits.

  • @khc2165
    @khc2165 5 місяців тому

    Is it possible that the mind, body problem seeking a common connection is almost the same dilemma as the classic physics and quantum physics connection. I wonder?

  • @darkiewind
    @darkiewind 5 місяців тому

    i think that philosophy in this century is all about "talking" and "giving weird theories" without any specific proves or something that make it seems real.

  • @NoThing-ec9km
    @NoThing-ec9km 5 місяців тому

    Consciousness is such a basic thing I don't understand why so much scientific humbo jumbo about it.

  • @LizardPrincess
    @LizardPrincess 5 місяців тому

    Hello, what is the poem she says she mangled about the orphan who might be king?

  • @InterdimensionalWiz
    @InterdimensionalWiz 5 місяців тому

    consciousness is that which is aware that it is aware. in-telle-genus, the brain is a receiver.

  • @NoThing-ec9km
    @NoThing-ec9km 5 місяців тому

    *There needs atleast one non dualist here.*

  • @artsolomon202
    @artsolomon202 5 місяців тому

    Seems like they are walking back and forth between cause and effect! Lets see how long this will take, good lord i have all the time in my mind.😊

  • @ejvindgeckler4951
    @ejvindgeckler4951 6 місяців тому

    Hugely interesting and impotent. What about love, not eros but agape, in greek. What kind of consciousness is that love? is it related to conscipusnees and how?

  • @braintalk9664
    @braintalk9664 6 місяців тому

    Wonderful talk, but her point on the neural implausibility of recovery of color vision after congenital blindness is incorrect. There are indeed published studies to show that even very late in life, people do acquire normal color vision (other aspects of vision, indeed, do not recover equally, but color does). - Pitchaimuthu et al. 2019 Color vision in sight recovery individuals - Ostrovsky et al 2006 Vision Following Extended Congenital Blindness