The Mourning Process and its Importance in Mental Illness: a Psychoanalytic understanding of psychiatric diagnosis and classification.

Saturday 15th June 2024 | 10:00am - 11:30am BST

This event will explore the crucial role of loss and mourning in mental illness bridging psychoanalytic and psychiatric perspectives on mental disorder. Through case vignettes from extensive psychiatric experience, we will explore the Psychological factors, underlying the development of mental illness, manifest in this particular way at this point in an individuals life.

Speaker: Dr Rachel Gibbons

Discussant and Chair: David Bell

More information: The Mourning Process and its Importance in Mental Illness: a Psychoanalytic understanding of psychiatric diagnosis and classification | Institute of Psychoanalysis