Changing Minds and Changing Risk
Professor Adshead will explore how psychological therapies can change minds, and the ethical issues that emerge as therapies are developed and offered. Psychological therapies are widely available and are a major technological intervention in mental health services. They are popular with service users and they are recommended as effective treatments within the NHS.
Over the course of three lectures, I will explore how psychological therapies can change minds; and the ethical, legal and political dilemmas that emerge as therapies are developed and offered. I will discuss these issues from the point of view of neuroscience, mental health and drivers of social change.
Changing Minds and Changing Risk. In this talk, I explore the ethical issues that arise when people seek to change their minds. I discuss the political aspects of changing minds; the use of stories and media to create a change. I focus my talk on the process of changing "bad" minds into "better" minds, and the question of whether there is a duty to try and change people's minds when they have offended. I will ask if there is a right to be left alone to make bad choices, using examples from mental health case law.
Dr. Gwen Adshead is Visiting Gresham Professor of Psychiatry and currently consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ravenswood House.
(from gresham.ac.uk)
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