Maudsley Debates - 3rd to 20th

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

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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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

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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

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10th Maudsley Debate: Mental health reform

July 2001

This house welcomes the implementation of the Government White Paper for the Mental health law reform

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:

Professor Tony Maden, Imperial College

Dr Chris Burford, Consultant, St Anns Hospital Tottenham

Speaking against the motion were:

Paul Bowen, Barrister, Doughty St Chambers

Dr Andrew Johns, Consultant of Forensic Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

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9th Maudsley Debate: Fashion victims

April 2001

This house believes that the media is being used as a convenient scapegoat for the development of eating disorders

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:

Professor Kenneth Nunn, Sydney University

W. Bose, Premier Model Agency Management

Speaking against the motion were:

Melanie Katzman, Consultant Psychologist

Nicky Bryant, Chief Executive of the Eating Disorders Association

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8th Maudsley Debate: Minor ailments

This house believes that psychiatrists over-medicate the exuberance of youth

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:

Dr Clive Jones, University College Hospital

Dr Steve Alwin

Speaking against the motion were:

Professor Eric Taylor, IoPPN

Andrea Bilbow, Founder of ADDISS

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7th Maudsley Debate: Psychiatric institutions are irretrievably racist

November 2000

This house believes that psychiatric institutions are irretrievably racist

Speakers

Supporting this motion were:

Dr Dele Olajide, Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Chinyere Inyama, Solicitor and Mental Health Act Commissioner

Speaking against the motion were:

Dr David Ndegwa, Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Malcolm Phillips, Director, Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust

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6th Maudsley Debate: The brain: the final frontier?

October 2000

This house believes that studying the brain tells us little about the mind

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:

Professor Peter Fonagy, UCL

Professor Steven Rose, Open University and Gresham College

Speaking against the motion were:

Professor Tim Crow, Oxford University

Professor Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge

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5th Maudsley Debate: Keep taking the tabloids

June 2000

This house believes that the media is bad for mental health

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:

Trisha Goddard, Television presenter

Jenny Antonia, Molecule biologist

Speaking against the motion were:

Sue Baker, Head of Media Relations, Mind

Marjorie Wallace, British writer, broadcaster, investigative journalist, and chief executive of SANE

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4th Maudsley Debate: What should we do with psychopaths?

May 2000

This house supports the governments proposals and policies in the management of severe personality disorder

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:

Professor Jeremy Coy, Forensic Psychiatry, St Bart's

Paul Watang, Home Office

Speaking against the motion were:

Professor John Gunn, IoPPN/SLaM

Dr Trevor Turner, Clinical Director, East London and City University Mental Health NHS Trust

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3rd Maudsley Debate: Does counselling screw you up?

This house believes that there should be no more counselling until it is proved to be safe and effective

Speakers

Supporting the motion were:

Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor of Epidemiological and Liaison Psychiatry, IoPPN

Virginia Ironside, Agony Aunt, Sunday Mirror newspaper

Speaking against the motion were:

Gladeana McMahon, Fellow of the British Association of Counsellors

Dr Adrian Hemmings, Psychologist and researcher, University of Sussex

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