Ethics, Experience and Evidence

Ethics, Experience and Evidence: Integration of Perspectives in Psychiatry

Ethics, Experience and Evidence: Integration of Perspectives in Psychiatry

14th International Conference for Philosophy and Psychiatry

Aims

Psychiatry seems to be in a permanent state of tension. First, there is the methodological tension. The natural-scientific view that underlies most of medical science competes with a number of broadly phenomenological perspectives. Another important source of tension is the dialectic between empirical facts and values (moral and others) accepted by the psychiatrist and/or the society.

The aims of this conference are:

More concretely, the meeting focuses on:

However, all contributions aimed at shedding light on the basic causes of tensions and conflicts in today’s psychiatry are welcome.