Critical Mental Health

Datum
22. Sep­tem­ber 2022 

These sem­i­nars aim to intro­duce this under­stud­ied per­spec­tive to the Pol­ish aca­d­e­m­ic com­mu­ni­ty and to fos­ter inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dia­logue between soci­ol­o­gy, anthro­pol­o­gy, and medicine.

The Rare Dis­ease Social Research Cen­tre (RDSRC) at the Insti­tute for Phi­los­o­phy and Soci­ol­o­gy of the Pol­ish Acad­e­my of Sci­ences invites both schol­ars and non-aca­d­e­m­ic audi­ences who are inter­est­ed in men­tal health to join the new sem­i­nar series „Crit­i­cal Men­tal Health” start­ing in Sep­tem­ber 2022. The sem­i­nars will fea­ture lec­tures by lead­ing schol­ars in crit­i­cal men­tal health stud­ies from the UK, Japan and New Zealand. In the last decades, men­tal health has become increas­ing­ly present in both glob­al and local pub­lic dis­cours­es; the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has only exac­er­bat­ed dis­cus­sions about the men­tal health crisis.

These sem­i­nars aim to intro­duce this under­stud­ied per­spec­tive to the Pol­ish aca­d­e­m­ic com­mu­ni­ty and to fos­ter inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dia­logue between soci­ol­o­gy, anthro­pol­o­gy, and med­i­cine. The scope of the top­ics cov­ered dur­ing the sem­i­nars include the Marx­ist cri­tique of psy­chi­a­try and psy­chol­o­gy, glob­al dis­sem­i­na­tion of the depres­sion cat­e­go­ry and its con­se­quences, the sig­nif­i­cance of cross-cul­tur­al and com­par­a­tive per­spec­tives on men­tal health, and the impli­ca­tions of war expe­ri­ence for soci­etal men­tal health.

All sem­i­nars will be held online with excep­tion of the first (22.09.2022), which will be in hybrid mode – both at the Stasz­i­ca Palace, Nowy Swiat 72, War­saw (Rm 268) and online.

The sem­i­nar pro­gram is avail­able in the attachment.

To reg­is­ter, please con­tact us at: rdsrc@ifispan.edu.pl