Psychopathology, Culture, & Society
Join us for a lecture of the Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series presented by Dr. Femi Oyebode, Psychiatrist; Radio Host; Author, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham.
This lecture is offered as part of the Department of Psychiatry’s rounds. For more information about Psychiatry rounds, visit the Psychiatry Rounds Webpage.
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. AST
Location: Presented on Zoom. Attend Online Passcode: 510555
Learning objectives:
- Introduce descriptive psychopathology and its roots in Jaspers’ General Psychopathology (1913) and European thought
- Examine Jaspers’ definition of delusions and show how culture shapes the phenomenology of agoraphobia
- Highlight how concepts of normality and society shape our understanding of abnormal experiences
About the speaker
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Femi Oyebode MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (honorary) studied medicine at the University of Ibadan, graduating with distinction in 1977. He trained as a psychiatrist in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham since 1999. He has published over 225 original papers & 23 book chapters. His books include Mindreadings: literature and psychiatry, Madness at the Theatre, Sims’ Symptoms in the Mind- Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology 4-7th editions (translated into Arabic, Estonia, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, & Spanish), Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes, Doppelgänger_ analysing doubles across antiquity, fiction, psychopathology, and neuroscience. He is joint presenter of the BBC Radio 4 Series, Is Psychiatry Working? He was Chief Examiner RCPsych 2002-2005. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016 and the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (the highest honour of the RCPsych) in 2019. He He has been Visiting Professor at University of Ibadan, University of Kuwait, University of Western Australia, & University of Auckland. |
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Accreditation
The Dalhousie Department of Psychiatry Clinical Academic/University Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Questions?
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