The London Lecture Series
What is mental health? Can we make sense of psychosis? What’s the connection between mental health and concepts including race & evolution?
Explore these questions, among others, through the lens of philosophy at the 2023/4 London Lectures.
The London Lecture Series
Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine; Presented by Justin Garson
Since the 1970s, psychiatry has been in the grip of a paradigm I call ‘madness-as-dysfunction’. In this view, mental disorders happen when something inside the person isn’t working as it should, or is ‘broken.’
In his previous work, Justin Garson has identified an alternate paradigm, which he calls ‘madness-as-strategy,’ which sees mental illness in terms of purpose, adaptation and function. In this lecture, Justin contrasts these frameworks and outlines their implications for research, treatment and stigma.
Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"