Psychopathology and Suicide - London Division Webinar

14Feb

Webinar

Timings 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location Online
CPD 1 CPD point per hour of content, subject to peer approval
Non-Member£93
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Psychopathology and Suicide - London Division Webinar

Event Information

Join us for the third instalment of our psychopathology masterclass, where Professor Gareth Owen (King’s College London) and Professor Femi Oyebode (University of Birmingham) will be discussing the psychopathology and phenomenology of suicide.

Drawing on their clinical and academic expertise, the webinar will explore how subjective experience, existential struggle, and psychopathological processes intersect in suicidal ideation and the act of suicide. The focus will be the phenomenology of suicide in adults with terminal illness.

 
  
9.30am
 
Welcome
Dr Stefania Bonaccorso, Consultant Psychiatrist &
Academic Secretary for RCPsych London Division
  
9.40-10.20am

Phenomenology of suicide in adults with terminal illness
Professor Gareth Owen, Kings College London

This talk will consider suicide out of traditional psychiatric context  - in terminal illness and the policy space of assisted dying/assisted suicide. It will explore the phenomenology of ending one’s own life in terminal illness and some similarities, differences and entanglements with ending one’s own life in non-terminal illness.

Learning objectives:

  • Enhance awareness of contemporary discussion of assisted dying and suicide
  • Reflect on principles and practice in suicide prevention and assisted dying
 
10.20-11am Using Literature to Enrich Our Understanding of Suicide
Professor Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham
 
This talk will briefly introduce the role of literature in enriching our understanding of clinical phenomena. I will exemplify this by discussing how memoirs and poetry can be a source for understanding the nature and narratives of suicide.  I will focus on a number of writers such as Ivor Gurney, Anne Sexton, William Styron, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Virginia Woolf.
 
  
11-11.30am Panel Discussion
 
 
11:30amThanks and Close


Please kindly note that the event will be recorded and the recording made available within two weeks of the event. The recording will not be automatically available after the event has taken place.

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We would encourage those who register to attend on the day of the event, should they wish to ask questions to our speakers.

The webinar recording will be available to registered delegates for up to two months after the webinar date.

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Location: Online