The Person in Psychiatry: An Ecohumanist, Enactive Approach - Sanneke de Haan

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 this year is on the subject of Madness and Mental Health. Watch the whole series here: • Madness and Mental Hea...
About the speaker
Sanneke de Haan is Socrates Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Assistant Professor of Clinical Bioethics at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. She works on topics at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. Her current research project focusses on so-called self-illness ambiguity for patients with recurrent depression, and the development of a notion of relational authenticity. Her book Enactive Psychiatry was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.
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Presentation of Speaker - 00:00
Lecture - 01:19
Q&A - 42:47