In this episode Kieron O’Hara examines how digital technology shapes our memories and alters our perception of the past, questioning the integrity of human memory in the age of social media and AI. Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.
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In this episode Kieron O’Hara examines how digital technology shapes our memories and alters our perception of the past, questioning the integrity of human memory in the age of social media and AI. Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.
Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine; Presented by Justin Garson
The London Lecture Series
1 hour 26 minutes
1 year ago
Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine; Presented by Justin Garson
Since the 1970s, psychiatry has been in the grip of a paradigm I call ‘madness-as-dysfunction’. In this view, mental disorders happen when something inside the person isn’t working as it should, or is ‘broken.’ In his previous work, Justin Garson has identified an alternate paradigm, which he calls ‘madness-as-strategy,’ which sees mental illness in terms of purpose, adaptation and function. In this lecture, Justin contrasts these frameworks and outlines their implications for research, ...
The London Lecture Series
In this episode Kieron O’Hara examines how digital technology shapes our memories and alters our perception of the past, questioning the integrity of human memory in the age of social media and AI. Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.