Events and Seminars
| Event | : | The Mourning Process and its Importance in Mental Illness |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 15/06/2024 |
| Duration | : | 10-11:30am BST / 5-6:30am EDT |
| Extra Info | : | The Mourning Process and Its Importance in Mental Illness: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification Speaker: Dr Rachel Gibbons Discussant and Chair: David Bell This event will explore the crucial role of loss and mourning in mental illness bridging psychoanalytic and psychiatric perspectives on mental disorder. Through case vignettes from extensive psychiatric experience, we will explore the Psychological factors, underlying the development of mental illness, manifest in this particular way at this point in an individuals life. Understanding the important role of loss and mourning in a wide variety of psychiatric disorders provides a basis for engagement with the inner world of patients and thus comprehending different manifestations of distress. Identification of the underlying loss event that underpins the illness can facilitate therapeutic engagement and resolution. The basis for this discussion will be the recent paper The Mourning Process and Its Importance in Mental Illness: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification |
| Organised By | : | Institute of Psychoanalysis |
| Web Link | : | https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D1594%26reset%3D1 |