HiPhiS seminar "The origins of mental illness".

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  • Dates: May 9, 2017
  • Opening hours: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Polytech (bât. 31), amphithéâtre Serge Peytavin - campus Triolet.
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 Université Paris-Sud.

Summary:

It's a commonplace to say that people are more likely to wonder about the possible origins of their misfortunes than their happiness. Clinical practice confirms this: patients are just as interested in the causes of their illnesses as in their prognosis, which should affect them far more directly.
The question of causality in medicine is therefore essential, but raises a number of difficulties, particularly in psychiatry. Psychoanalysis, for example, has long proposed explanatory schemes that at first glance seem incompatible or irreconcilable with current neuroscientific data.
So, what are the causes or origins of mental illnesses, and how can we shed some light on them?
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