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Maudsley Debates - 11th to 20th

01 September 2019

The Maudsley Debates take place three times a year at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). Topics generally focus on issues that have a direct impact on mental health services, service users and mental health professionals.

20th Maudsley Debate: Crime & illness: the thin blue line

March 2003

This house believes that criminals need treatment not punishment

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:��

Professor John Gunn, Forensic Psychiatry, IoPPN

Professor Christopher Cordess, Forensic Psychiatry, University of Sheffield

Speaking against the motion were: 

Brendan O'Neill, Assistant Editor, Spiked

Philip Bean, Director, Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice

Download the 20th  Maudsley Debate podcast

19th Maudsley Debate: Are we all mentally ill now?

February 2003

This house believes that the problems of everyday life are being over-medicalised

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Professor Michael Fitzpatrick, Columnist, Spiked 

Professor Peter Tira, Community Psychiatrist, UCL

Speaking against the motion were: 

Richard Brook, Mind 

Theo Blackwell, The Work Foundation 

Download the 19th  Maudsley Debate podcast

18th Maudsley Debate: Schizophrenia: the ultimate delusion

This house believes that schizophrenia does not exist

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Professor Jim Van Os, Psychiatric Epidemiology and Public Mental Health, Utrecht University Medical Centre

Professor Richard Bentall, Clinical Psychology, University of Sheffield 

Speaking against the motion were: 

Dr Peter McKenna

Professor Anthony David

Download the 18th  Maudsley Debate podcast

17th Maudsley Debate: They all want to be doctors

November 2002

This house believes that nurses and psychologists should be allowed to prescribe

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Professor Chris Thompson, Dean at University of Southampton 

Professor Kevin Gournay, Professor of Nursing Studies, IoPPN

Speaking against the motion were: 

Professor Phil Baker, Visiting Professor of Nursing, Trinity College 

Dr Rufus May, Clinical Psychologist and former psychiatric patient

Download the 17th  Maudsley Debate podcast

15th Maudsley Debate: Post-traumatic stress disorder

May 2002

This house believes that the trauma industry inappropriately medicalises normal suffering

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Ben Shephard, Noted historian, journalist and commentator

Dr Derek Summerfield, Consultant Psychiatrist

Speaking against the motion were: 

Dr Chris Freeman, Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh

Andrew Buchan, Leading Barrister for PTSD

Download the 15th  Maudsley Debate Podcast

14th Maudsley Debate: Human rights gone mad?

March 2002

This house believes that human rights standards do not protect the dignity

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Professor Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, Darwin College University of Kent 

Professor Nigel Eastmann, Head of Forensic Psychiatry, St Georges Hospital Medical School

Speaking against the motion were: 

Professor Michael Gunn, Head of Department and Associate Dean, Nottingham Law School, The Nottingham Trent University

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, Senior Partner, Scott, Moncrieff, Harbour and Sinclair

Download the 14th  Maudsley Debate podcast

13th Maudsley Debate: Method in their madness or madness in their method?

This house believes that the public's reaction to terrorism is more irrational than the terrorists' motivation and behaviour

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor of Epidemiological and Liaison Psychiatry, GKT School of Medicine and Institute of Psychiatry

Dr Adrian Grounds, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University

Speaking against the motion were: 

Dr Raj Persaud, Consultant Psychiatrist, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust

Kevin Toolis, Journalist and author of 'Rebel Hearts - Journeys within the IRA's soul'

Download the 13th  Maudsley Debate podcast

12th Maudsley Debate: Plan or sham?

November 2001

This house believes that the NHS Plan will transform psychiatric care in England for the better

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Professor Louis Appleby, National Director of Mental Health

Cliff Prior, Chief Executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship

Speaking against the motion were: 

Professor Sir David Goldberg, formerly Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute, and long-time advisor to the Department of Health

Dr Tony Pelosi, Consultant Psychiatrist in a deprived area near Glasgow

Download the 12th  Maudsley Debate podcast

11th Maudsley Debate: Cannabis, who gives a puff?

September 2001

This house believes it is worth criminalising the majority to protect the vulnerable minority

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Dr Colin Drummond, Consultant Psychiatrist, St George's Medical School

Professor Susan Greenfield, Pharmacology, Oxford University

Speaking against the motion were: 

Dr Michael Farrell, National Addiction Centre, IoPPN 

Dr Leslie Iversen, Director of the Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, IoPPN

Download the 11th  Maudsley Debate podcast

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Simon Wessely

Regius Professor of Psychiatry

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