Free Members' Webinar: Confronting eugenics and its legacies in psychiatry

This webinar looks at the relationship between psychiatry and eugenics, in Britain and the wider world.

It adopts a diachronic and synchronic approach by exploring the main eugenic themes characterising the psychiatric thinking and practices during the first half of the twentieth century, in countries such as England, Ireland, Germany and the USA.

The main themes to be addressed are:

• Representation and interpretation (theory and theorists)
• Segregation and institutionalisation (anxiety and policy)
• Sterilisation and euthanasia (practical programmes)
• Lessons and Legacies (coming to terms with the past in current practice)

Moderator: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)

Speakers:

1. Frank W. Stahnisch (University of Calgary): German-American connections
2. Mathew Thomson (University of Warwick): England/Britain
3. Brendan Kelly (Trinity College, Dublin): Ireland

Questions can either be submitted using the Q&A function during the webinar, or you can email them in advance to bethany.shaheir@rcpsych.ac.uk.

You can find out more about past and upcoming webinars and catch up on demand with any you have missed on our website.