Prof. Dr. Matthew Broome (University of Birmingham – UK), Psychiatry as a Vocation: moral injury and the phenomenology of clinical practice.

June 29 2021

h. 16.45 CET

Prof. Dr. Matthew Broome (University of Birmingham – UK), Psychiatry as a Vocation: moral injury and the phenomenology of clinical practice.

Matthew Broome is Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, and Director of the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham and Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Matthew has a PhD in Psychiatry from the University of London and in Philosophy from the University of Warwick.

He is series editor to the OUP series, International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry and deputy editor of The British Journal of Psychiatry. He co-edited Risk Factors for Psychosis: Paradigms, Mechanisms, and Prevention. (Elsevier Press, 2020), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology, (Oxford University Press, 2019), The AMDP System: Manual for Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology in Psychiatry, (Hogrefe. 2017), The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives, (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Matthew’s research interests include youth mental health, the prodromal phase of psychosis, delusion formation, mood instability, functional neuroimaging, interdisciplinary methods, and the philosophy of psychiatry.

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Lectures and Discussions will be held in English