RESPONSIBILITY WITHOUT BLAME: Ethical positions in mental health

We are delighted to announce the first ‘Steve Pearce Study Day’ held in memory of our late Faculty chair. This event offers an opportunity to hear expert presentations and to come together with colleagues to explore the concept of ‘responsibility without blame’ in a managed clinical setting such as the NHS.

Internationally renowned speakers will offer their thoughts and ideas from a philosophical, ethical, and clinical perspective. This will provide the platform for interactive small and large group discussions of links between philosophy and psychological/psychodynamic thinking as applied to our clinical work.

Steve Pearce was a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy and chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty, and had a wide interest in matters related to psychiatry. This Study Day seeks to honour Steve’s memory by preserving and extending his legacy in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and philosophy, as well as celebrating his achievements in psychotherapeutic group work, therapeutic communities, research and teaching.

Speakers:

Hanna Pickard, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, USA

Matthew Broome, Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, Director of the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham UK

Program

09:30 Registration (coffee/tea)

09:55 Welcome

10:00 First talk: 'Responsibility as a tool for recovery and how to avoid the rescue-blame trap.', Prof Hanna Pickard, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, USA

10:45 Q&A

11:00 Break (Tea, coffee, biscuits)

11:15 Second talk: 'Moral responsibility and mental illness', Prof Matthew Broome, Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, Director of the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham UK

12:00 Q & A

12:15 Lunch

13:00 Large group

14:30 Tea break (coffee/tea/biscuits)

14:45 In conversation with Hanna and Matthew

15:45 Final remarks and close

16:00 CLOSE

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Royal College of Psychiatrists, 21 Prescot Street, London, United Kingdom