Mind, Value and Mental Health: Summer School and Conference (combined booking)

Accommodation

Both events will take place at St Hilda’s College, Oxford with stunning grounds running down to the River Cherwell and beautiful views over the Botanic Gardens, Christ Church Meadow and the spires of the city.

Summer School

Limited en suite accommodation for the nights of 12 and 13 July is included in the Residential fee for summer school delegates. Additional en suite accommodation on 14 and 15 July is included when booking the Summer school and Conference (en suite package) option.

Further nights may be available, please contact us for details.

Conference

Limited standard bed and breakfast accommodation (rooms contain a washbasin and have the use of shared bathrooms) is available at a rate of £39 per night on 14 and 15 July. Further nights may be available, please contact us for details.

Alternatively it is possible to book bed and breakfast accommodation at other colleges.

Fees

Summer School and Conference (en suite package): 12-16 July: £1630.00
Summer School and Conference (non-res package): 12-15 July: £1155.00
Conference drinks and dinner: £39.00

Payment

When applying (either online or by downloading an application form), please select from the following options:

Summer School and Conference residential package: £1,630

• Attendance at all sessions on 13, 14 and 15 July
• Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School resource pack
• Certificate of Attendance on successful completion
• En suite bed and breakfast accommodation at St Hilda’s College 12, 13, 14 and 15 July
• Lunch and refreshments on 13, 14 and 15 July
• Evening meal 13 July
• Drinks reception and Gala Dinner 14 July
• Internet access

Summer School and Conference (non-residential package): £1,155

• Attendance at all sessions on 13, 14 and 15 July
• Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School resource pack
• Certificate of Attendance on successful completion
• Lunch and refreshments on 13, 14 and 15 July
• Drinks reception and Gala Dinner 14 July
• Internet access

Conference drinks reception and dinner: £39

Conference drinks reception and dinner is not included in these packages, please add separately. 

Please note that this page is for booking both the summer school and conference. 

Individual bookings:

Summer school only booking

Conference only booking

Tutors

Dr Anita Avramides

Director & Tutor

Anita Avramides was born in New York City. She attended Packer Collegiate Institute, in Brooklyn and then Oberlin College, in Ohio, where she majored in Philosophy. After a year of working and studying in Paris, she attended University College London where she received her M. Phil. in philosophy. She received her D. Phil from Somerville and Queen’s Colleges in Oxford. In 1990 she was appointed to the Southover Manor Trust Fellowship in Philosophy at St. Hilda’s College in Oxford, and in 2008 she was made a Reader in the Philosophy of Mind in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University.

Professor Martin Davies

Director

Martin Davies is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy from 1993 to 2000 and then took up a Professorship in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, returning to Oxford in 2006. Before coming to Oxford for the first time, as a BPhil and then DPhil student at New College, he studied philosophy and mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. After completing his doctorate, he taught at the University of Essex for a year and was then a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College Oxford before moving in 1981 to Birkbeck College London.

Martin Davies’s research interests are in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science, with recent work on delusions including anosognosia for motor impairments, the methodology of cognitive neuropsychology, and consciousness, and empirical collaborations on the illusion of self-touch (a version of the rubber hand illusion), inattentional blindness, and motion-induced blindness. He is a Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Professor Bill Fulford

Director

KWM (Bill) Fulford is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick Medical School. His previous posts include Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Oxford, and Special Adviser for Values-Based Practice in the Department of Health. Bill has led on a number of key academic and administrative developments in the philosophy of psychiatry and has published widely in this field, including Moral Theory and Medical Practice and co-authoring The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is Lead Editor for the Oxford book series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry, and Founder and Co-editor with John Sadler of the international journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (PPP), which he founded in 1993. His recent publications include the launch volume for a book series from Cambridge University Press on Values-based Practice - Fulford, KWM, Peile, EP and Carroll, H., Essential Values-based Practice: Clinical Stories Linking Science with People (2012, Cambridge University Press). He is the lead editor for the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (published 2013).

Dr Edward Harcourt

Director

Edward Harcourt (Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University) is Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy at Keble College, Oxford. His research interests include ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of mental health and mental illness. He has published on, among other things, Aristotle and contemporary developmental psychology, self-knowledge, the emotions, the ethical dimensions of psychotherapy, Nietzsche’s ethics, literature and philosophy, and Wittgenstein. He is a director of Mind, Value and Mental Health: The Oxford Summer Schools in Philosophy and Psychiatry and from 2010-15 convened the Meaning and Mindedness: Encounters between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis seminars at the Tavistock Clinic, London.

Professor Giovanni Stanghellini

Tutor

Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychotherapy, Chieti University

Professor Stanghellini is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He has published extensively on a range of disorders including schizophrenia, depression, and eating disorders, and his work integrates psychopathology, phenomenology, epistemology and neuroscience...more

Dr Matthew Broome

Tutor

Senior Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Dr Broome is a clinical psychiatrist specialising in the neuroscience and epidemiology of the onset of psychiatric disorders. His current research focuses on the early psychopathological changes that indicate the development of major mental illnesses in adolescents and young adults...more 

Dr Jonathan Cole

Tutor

Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

Professor Cole specialises in peripheral neurophysiology. His work promotes a ‘neurophenomenological,’ empathic approach to the treatment of neurological impairment. He has written on the relation between ‘self’ and ‘face’ revealed by facial difference, and is a member of the advisory council of Changing Faces, the UK charity involved in support for those with facial disfigurement...more

Dr Sarah Majid

Tutor

Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Prof Derek Bolton

Tutor

Derek Bolton, Professor of Philosophy and Psychopathology, King’s College London

Professor Bolton is an Honorary Clinical Psychologist in the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Philosophy and Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He specialises in anxiety disorders and PTSD in children and adolescents, as well as philosophical issues in psychiatry...more

Dan Zahavi

Tutor

Professor of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen

Professor Zahavi specialises in the phenomenological tradition, particularly the work of Edmund Husserl. His research examines the social dimension of empathy, self-experience, emotion, intentionality, shame and social cognition...more

Prof Elisabeth Hsu

Tutor

Professor in Anthropology, University of Oxford

Elisabeth Hsu is Professor in Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Oxford, and Governing Body Fellow at Green Templeton College.  Her research interests lie within the fields of medical anthropology and ethnobotany, language and textual studies. They concern Chinese medicine; the transmission of knowledge and practice; pulse diagnosis; body and personhood; touch, pain, feelings, emotions, and sensory experience ... more

Dr Stephen McHugh

Tutor

Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 

Dr McHugh’s research examines the cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory, with a particular emphasis on the way in which the brain forms and retrieves unpleasant memories of experiences, contributing to states of fear and anxiety...more 

Dr Benedict Smith

Tutor

Benedict Smith, Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University

Dr Smith is a research fellow at the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing and a Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham. His work focuses on the philosophy of mind and psychiatry as well as issues in moral philosophy including motivation, trust, and the role of concepts in our moral thought and practice...more

Abdi Sanati

Tutor

Consultant Psychiatrist at North East London NHS Foundation Trust 

Dr Sanati is a consultant psychiatrist and Chairman of the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College. He has completed the MSc programme in Philosophy of Psychiatry, and his current philosophical interests are epistemic injustice, human rights and delusions. He active in promoting philosophy among psychiatrists.

Dr Elianna Fetterolf

Tutor

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Dr Fetterolf is a specialist in moral philosophy and moral psychology. Her work examines a range of issues at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry including moral emotions, motivation, responsibility and agency...more

Professor David M Clark

Speaker

Professor Clark’s research focuses on cognitive approaches to anxiety disorders, and integrates experimental and clinical studies. This work has led to the development of new cognitive therapy programmes for a range of anxiety disorders, which have been endorsed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence...more

Dr Sushrut Jadhav

Tutor

Dr Jadhav is a street psychiatrist and clinician anthropologist in London, UK. His formal designation is Senior Lecturer in Cross-cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist, Camden Homeless Outreach Services & Islington Mental Health Rehabilitation Services & Lead Clinician, Cultural Consultation Service, Camden and Islington Community Health and Social Care Trust. He is founding Editor, Anthropology and Medicine journal (Taylor & Francis, UK)...more

Professor Nancy Nyquist Potter

Speaker

Professor Potter is an expert in the field of philosophy and psychiatry and serves on the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Her current interests concern the relationship between voice, silencing, and uptake for patients living with mental illness...more

Professor Jennifer Radden

Speaker

Jennifer Radden is a Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She received degrees in philosophy and psychology at Melbourne University and holds a doctorate from Oxford. She has published extensively on mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects of psychiatric theory and practice. Her books include Madness and Reason (1986), Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality (1996), Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression (2009), and The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice, co-authored with Dr John Sadler (2010), and On Delusion (2011), as well as two collections of which she was editor, The Nature of Melancholy (2000) and Oxford Companion to the Philosophy of Psychiatry (2004). Most recently, Melancholy Habits: Burton’s Anatomy for the Mind Sciences (Oxford University Press) was published in 2017.

Professor Matthew Ratcliffe

Speaker

Professor Ratcliffe is Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. Most of his recent work addresses issues in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychiatry. He is author of Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (Palgrave, 2007), Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality (Oxford University Press, 2008), Experiences of Depression: A Study in Phenomenology (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World (MIT Press, 2017). 

Application

Applications can be made online or by downloading the application form below.

Short Course Application Form and Guidance Notes

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