Maudsley Debates - 21st to 30th

30th Maudsley Debate: Is child abuse a cause of schizophrenia?

June 2006

This house believes child abuse is a cause of schizophrenia

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Dr John Read, University of Auckland

Paul Hammersley, University of Manchester

Speaking against the motion were: 

Professor Peter McGuffin, IoPPN

Terry Hammond, RETHINK

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29th Maudsley Debate: Antipsychiatry is dead, long live psychiatry

This house believes that the legacy of RD Laing was detrimental for patient care

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Dr Adrianne Revely, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Mike Launer, Consultant Psychiatrist, Lamont Clinic, Burnley

Speaking against the motion were: 

Adrian Laing, Solicitor in London

Professor Tony David, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, IoPPN and Consultant Psychiatrist, SLaM  

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27th Maudsley Debate: Love is a delusion

This house believes that love is a delusion 

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Dr Harvey Gordon, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Littlemore Mental Health Centre Oxford

Dr Frank Tallis, Writer and a Clinical Psychologist

Speaking against the motion were: 

Dr Glenn Wilson, Reader in Personality, IoPPN 

Cherry Potter, Journalist and Psychotherapist

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26th Maudsley Debate: A born-again brain

This house believes that modern science has demonstrated the implausibility of an afterlife

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Professor Lewis Wolpert, Biology at University College London 

Professor Peter Atkins, Physical Chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford and Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society

Speaking against the motion were: 

Rev Dr John Polkinghorne, Mathematical Physicist and Anglican priest

Dr Sean Spence, Reader in Adult Psychiatry, University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the homeless at Sheffield Care Trust

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25th Maudsley Debate: Going down the tube

May 2004

This house believes London's mental health services are in a state of permanent crisis

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Angela Greatley, Director of Policy, The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health 

Cliff Prior, Chief Executive, Rethink (formerly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship)

Speaking against the motion were: 

Alan Cohen, Chair, London Development Centre for Mental Health

Stuart Bell, Chief Executiv, SLaM

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24th Maudsley Debate: High time for a change?

November 2003

This house believes that there should be a free market for recreational drugs

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Roger Warren-Evans, Barrister, Liberty member and secretary of the Angel Declaration calling for changes in drug laws

Dr John Marsden, Senior Lecturer, National Addiction Centre, IoPPN

Speaking against the motion were: 

Professor Griffith Edwards, National Addiction Centre, IoPPN

Dr Andrew Johns, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychiatry

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23rd Maudsley Debate: Are men bad for women's mental health?

September 2003

This house believes that impatient psychiatric wards should be sex segregated

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Lynne Clayton, Co-chair, Southwark Mind 

Professor Dora Kohen, Women's Mental Health, Lancashire Postgraduate School of Medicine and Health

Speaking against the motion were: 

Dr Eleanor Cole, Consultant Psychiatrist in Southwark 

Professor Peter Tyrer, Community Psychiatry at Charing Cross Hospital 

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22nd Maudsley Debate: The choice: depressed or dependent?

July 2003

This house believes that antidepressants cause dependence

Speakers

Supporting the motion were: 

Dr David Healy, Psychiatrist and Psychopharmacologist, Bangor University 

Charles Medawar, Social Audit 

Speaking against the motion were: 

Dr Veronica O'Keane, Senior Lecturer, Consultant Psychiatrist

Professor Lewis Wolpert, Biology as applied to Medicine, UCL

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21st Maudsley Debate: Boys will be boys

May 2003

This house believes that war is an expression of the psychopathology of the male brain

Supporting the motion were:

Professor Germaine Greer, English and Comparative Studies at Warwick University, pioneering feminist and celebrated author

Professor Johanna Burke, History at Birkbeck College, specialist in social, gender and military history

Speaking against the motion were: 

Lord Owen, Former Shadow Defence Spokesman, Labour Foreign Secretary and Co-Founder of the SDP

Dr Felicity de Zulueta, Maudsley Hospital

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