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Tania Gergel

Tania Gergel

Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Mental Health

Biography

Tania is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow with the Mental Health and Justice research project, where she co-leads research on 'advance directives' in bipolar, including clinical initiatives; advising policy makers on mental health law reform, legal developments and exploring the relationship between personal identity and illness. She also works with the McPin Foundation to coordinate patient and public involvement.

Although Tania’s academic background was in ancient philosophy, her research now focuses on mental health, ethics and law/philosophy of medicine, with areas of interest including: advance decision making and decision making capacity; the ethics of coercion and leverage within psychiatry; personal identity and mental disorder; phenomenology and stigma.

After completing a PhD at King’s in 2000, Tania was a lecturer in the Classics Department until 2005. Following an extended career break, Tania returned to academic life in 2012 and become involved with work on philosophy of medicine and psychiatry. She first joined the MHEL Research Group as a Visiting Research Fellow in ‘Philosophy and Psychiatry’ in 2015. Tania has also taught at UCL, Birkbeck and Cambridge University.

Research interests

  • Philosophy of psychiatry
  • Mental health ethics and law
  • Philosophy of medicine
  • Phenomenology and postmodernist philosophy
  • Ancient philosophy

    Research

    42564057_presentation-wide
    The Centre for the Humanities and Health

    A multidisciplinary forum interfacing the humanities, health, science & society.

    News

    Do service users with bipolar disorder want to choose enforced treatment ahead of future episodes?

    A new study from the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, in partnership with the charity Bipolar UK, explores...

    Beth Hopkins - Identity Drawing for Lancet Psychiatry

    Events

    23Feb59 Maudsley Debate 2023

    59th Maudsley Debate

    Join us for a topical mental health debate on self-binding directives.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    CHH Blog: Advance directives for mental illness raise deep ethical questions

    Advance directives for mental illness raise deep ethical questions - The debate over self-binding directives has been working through these issues since the...

    ca-times.brightspotcdn

      Research

      42564057_presentation-wide
      The Centre for the Humanities and Health

      A multidisciplinary forum interfacing the humanities, health, science & society.

      News

      Do service users with bipolar disorder want to choose enforced treatment ahead of future episodes?

      A new study from the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, in partnership with the charity Bipolar UK, explores...

      Beth Hopkins - Identity Drawing for Lancet Psychiatry

      Events

      23Feb59 Maudsley Debate 2023

      59th Maudsley Debate

      Join us for a topical mental health debate on self-binding directives.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      CHH Blog: Advance directives for mental illness raise deep ethical questions

      Advance directives for mental illness raise deep ethical questions - The debate over self-binding directives has been working through these issues since the...

      ca-times.brightspotcdn