<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style=""><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Dear all,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span>n<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">ext</span> seminar in this semester's<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"> Agora series will be:</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Professor Dominic Murphy</span></strong><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(The</span></strong><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">University of Sydney)</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><i>Nature and Social Construction in Psychiatry</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Thursday,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">May 22</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Building 20, Room 4</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><b>Abstract:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">In this talk I will try to show why it looks plausible that the dominant model of mental disorder is neglectful of the sociocultural, but also suggest that there are ways of understanding the medical model and ways of understanding social causes of mental illness that can work together. I will distinguish between social construction, social causation and social meaning, suggest that these are often run together in the literature, and argue that they have different implications for psychiatry. In particular, we should be sensitive to the fact that social constructionist accounts often take their psychology off the shelf, and cannot assume neurotypical psychology without begging the question.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><b>Bio:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Dominic Murphy is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Psychiatry in the Scientific Image</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(MIT Press, 2006). Before that he taught at Caltech and was previously a fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University, St Louis.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,sans-serif">This is an in-person event and there is no need to register. All welcome.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"> </p></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">--</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Dr. Elena Walsh</span></b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Lecturer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">School of Liberal Arts</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | 94.19</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">T </span></b><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">+61 2 4220 5692</span><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)"><b>W </b><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/jQKiC91WPRT2xBNJGuof5fqUNCh?domain=elenawalsh.squarespace.com" target="_blank">elenawalsh.squarespace.com</a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inhe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