Gresham Lecture: Psychosis: Our Default Mental State?
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Gresham College
Event Date + Time:
March 14, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - March 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Event Location:
Barnards Inn Hall, London, United Kingdom
Venue Name:
Gresham College
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Event Description:
A lecture by Professor Peter Woodruff. Psychosis is a mental state where people experience a ‘different’ world. If, as clinical psychiatry and neuroscience suggests, it is our ‘default mental state’ why isn’t everyone psychotic? Psychosis does not arise de novo; external sensory input and cognition actively inhibit its expression. It is important to understand: how thin the boundary is between sanity and madness and what leads from one to the other; and to appreciate the frailty of rational thought.
