Psychopathology and Suicide - London Division Webinar
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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Consultant | £70 |
Resident (Higher) / SAS Doctor | £54 |
Resident (Core) / FY Doctor / Medical Student | £36 |

Event Information
Programme
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 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:
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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 |
11:30am | Thanks and Close |
Can't attend on the day?
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The webinar recording will be available to registered delegates for up to two months after the webinar date.
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