IX Open Seminar on Philosophy and Psychiatry

The English-language announcement is for informational use only. The conference will be held entirely in Polish.

The OSFP Foundation invites to the IX Open Seminar on Philosophy and Psychiatry entitled ‚Education and Values’ taking place on November 25-26 in the Auditorium Maria Ossowska at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw at Aleja Krakowskie Przedmieście 3.

The Polish mental health care system needs to be changed. What it will look like in the future largely depends on people who are currently training or just starting their professional practice as psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, psychotherapists and recovery assistants.

Therefore, we believe that it is worth paying attention to the role that philosophy can play in preparing the axiological, cognitive and communicative basis in interdisciplinary teams promoted by Mental Health Centers, in cooperation between entities from various sectors, in organizing comprehensive patient-centered support, in shaping the approach reliable, critical and courageous and in response to the new challenges that the future will bring.

We will be particularly interested in Values-based Practice, a model proposed in the 1980s by British psychiatrist and philosopher professor Bill Fulford, which may provide an important complement to the evidence-based approach.

During the conference, we will present the preliminary results of the study of people participating in the ‚Philosophy and Psychiatry for Medical Studies’ courses organized by the OSFP Foundation.

An artistic venue is planned for Saturday evening.

Keynote speakers

prof. Zofia Rosińska, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
prof. Paweł Łuków, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
prof. Jacek Wciórka, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology
prof. Marta Rakoczy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
prof. Marcin Moskalewicz, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg
prof. Andrzej Kapusta, Institute of Philosophy, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
PhD Mira Marcinów, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
PhD Konrad Banicki, Institute of Applied Psychology of the Jagiellonian University
PhD Marcin Rządeczka, Institute of Philosophy, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

submit a lecture or a poster (in Polish)

We are waiting for proposals for 20-minute lectures or posters until October 22. We plan to send responses regarding admission by October 29.

To submit a paper or a poster, please complete this form (Polish only) >>

In order to finance the organizational costs of a scientific conference, a registration fee is required from participants. In special cases, the organizers may consider discounts or fee waivers. Please contact us for individual arrangements.

Conference fees:

Particiption without a lecture or poster: free of charge
Standard fee for a lecture: PLN 400
Reduced fee for a lecture (students, doctoral students): PLN 300
Standard poster fee: PLN 300
Reduced poster fee (students, PhD students): PLN 200

Passive participation in the conference is free of charge and does not require registration

Topics

We invite you to undertake, among others: the following topics:

humanities and social sciences in the education of mental health experts;
the place of values in the mental health system;
film and theater in psychoeducation;
educational programs at universities;
status of expert knowledge and axiological determinants of decisions;
Values-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Practice (VBP and EBM);
codes and other regulations and documents in the area of mental health;
connections between philosophy, psychiatry and psychotherapy;
psychiatric phenomenology;
critical trends in psychiatry;
status of evidence in Evidence-based medicine (EBM);
new technologies in diagnosis, therapy and promotion of mental health;
technological changes and their impact on the mental health crisis.

Main organizer:

Open Seminars on Philosophy and Psychiatry Foundation

Co-organizers:

– I Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
– Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Media patronage:

– ‚Psychiatrist. A Journal for Practitioners’

The conference is carried out as part of the project ‚Philosophy of psychiatry – the basis of the mental health care system’ by the Open Seminars on Philosophy and Psychiatry Foundation in partnership with the Philosophy of Mental Health Unit at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Medical University of Warsaw. Karol Marcinkowski in Poznań.

The project is implemented with a subsidy from the Active Citizens – National Fund program financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the EEA Funds