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Episode 12: Why Psychiatry has to be Social | Autumn 2009 - Lunch Hour Lectures
Episode 12 - Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009
Why Psychiatry has to be Social
To mark World Mental Health Day – 10 October. Professor Bebbington explores the idea that psychiatry has an essentially social component because the phenomenon it seeks to explain have inherently social attributes. Psychiatric symptoms relate to our internal experience of external reality, and therefore comprise elements of both the internal and external world. A full account of psychiatric disorder must invoke the interaction of biological and social factors, acknowledging that the balance between these factors will vary between individuals.
Prof Paul Bebbington
UCL Department of Mental Health Sciences
15 October 2009
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UCL Institute of Mental Health
