HiPhiS Seminar: “The Origin of Mental Illness”

Tuesday, May 9, 2017, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Polytech (building 31), Serge Peytavin lecture hall – Triolet campus.
Inter-university seminar on the History and Philosophy of Science, 2017 cycle “Causes, Foundations, Origins.”
Lecture presented by Bruno Falissard, psychiatrist, Professor of Public Health at Paris-Sud University.

Summary:

It is commonly said that people tend to wonder more often about the possible causes of their misfortunes than about those of their happiness. Clinical practice confirms this: patients are just as concerned about the causes of their illness as they are about their prognosis, which should nevertheless affect them much more directly.
The question of causality in medicine is therefore essential; however, it raises many difficulties, particularly in psychiatry. For example, psychoanalysis has long proposed explanatory models that are, at first glance, incompatible or irreconcilable with the current data provided by neuroscience.
So, what are the causes or origins of mental illness, and how can we gain a clearer understanding?
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