Helsinki Symposium on Philosophy of Psychiatry: Culture, Extended and Embodied Cognition and Mental Disorders 2016
30 June – 1 July, 2016, Lapinlahti, Helsinki
An international symposium organized by the Helsinki Network for Philosophy of Psychiatry, in collaboration with TINT (Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences), the Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality Research Network and the Doctoral Programme for Philosophy, Arts and Society.
Our theme, Culture, Extended, Embodied Cognition and Mental Disorders, encompasses cultural issues of mental disorders related to diagnostics, definitions and classifications, as well as phenomenological questions of experience, affectivity and embodiment. The aim of the symposium is to open new horizons for interdisciplinary approaches to mental disorders.
Two days of lectures and discussions among researchers and practitioners take place in the historic Lapinlahti Hospital, which is a former mental institution, among the first modern psychiatric hospitals in Europe.
Keynote speakers include:
Giovanna Colombetti, Associate Professor at University of Exeter
Rachel Cooper, Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University
Daniel Hutto, Professor at University of Wollongong
Harold Kincaid, Professor at University of Cape Town
Dominic Murphy, Associate Professor at University of Sydney
Jaakko Seikkula, Professor at University of Jyväskylä
Registration has ended (June 1st 2016) – if you would like to inquire about extra places, send us an email at psychiatry-symposium[at]helsinki.fi.
Preliminary programme
30.6. Thursday
9:30 Registration (& lunch tickets)
10:00 Pii Telakivi & Anna Ovaska, Welcome wishes and a word on Lapinlahti Hospital
10:15-10:45 Tuomas Vesterinen, Culture and the Extension of Mental Disorders
10:45- 12:00 Dominic Murphy (TBA)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Marion Godman, What Is Cultural and What Is Bounded about (Some) Psychiatric Syndromes?
13:30-14:00 Samuli Pöyhönen & Petri Ylikoski, Causal Matrix for Addiction
14:00-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:00 Jaakko Kuorikoski & Susanne Uusitalo et al. (TBA)
15:00-15:30 Joona Taipale, The Object of Addiction. Perspectives from Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-17:00 Daniel Hutto, A Reconciliation for the Future of Psychiatry: both Folk Psychology and Cognitive Science
17:00-17:30 Tour around Lapinlahti
19:00 Symposium dinner at Holiday, Katajanokka
1.7. Friday
10:00 Opening
10:10-10:30 Sanna Tirkkonen, Introduction: Experience and Psychiatric Knowledge
10:30-11:45 Jaakko Seikkula, Open Dialogues: Re-organizing Psychiatry and Focusing on Generating Embodied Dialogues
11:45-12:45 Lunch
12:45-14:00 Giovanna Colombetti, Embodied Moods: from Extension to Incorporation
14:00-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:00 Caterina Marchionni, Challenging the Mechanistic view in Psychiatry
15:00-16:00 Harold Kincaid, Realism and Antirealism about Psychiatric Classification
16:00-16:15 Break
16:15-17:30 Rachel Cooper, Extended Mental Disorder
17:30 Picnic at Lapinlahti
Saturday 2.7.
Picnic at Suomenlinna