Bringing Society To Psychology
Time: November 12, 2014 from 7pm to 7pm
Location: Royal Geographical Society, London
Street: 1 Kensington Gore*
City/Town: London, SW7 2AR
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Event Type: debate
Organized By: Intelligence Squared
Latest Activity: Sep 24, 2014
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Debate: WE’VE OVERDOSED. PSYCHIATRISTS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY ARE TO BLAME FOR THE CURRENT ‘EPIDEMIC’ OF MENTAL DISORDERS
Come and hear the impassioned arguments on either side at the Royal Geographical Society on November 12th.
Psychoanalyst and author. His books include Strictly Bipolar, What is Madness?and The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression.
Novelist, journalist and essayist. He writes regularly for The Guardian and the New Statesman and his latest novel, Umbrella, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012.
Veteran of the pharmaceutical industry who held a senior role at Pfizer, which developed the popular antidepressant Zoloft. He is currently CEO of Portage Biotech and executive chairman of BioHaven, a technology start-up which is at the forefront of developing a radically new form of antidepressant based on ketamine.
President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is also Chair of Psychological Medicine and Vice Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
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