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Source: The Royal Society of MedicineTuesday 14 May 2013Venue: Royal Society Of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AESupported by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant on "Emotions" at the University of Oxford and by the Hellenic Psychiatric Association UK DivisionConference Organisers:Professor Angelos Chaniotis, Oxford University and Institute of Advanced Study PrincetonProfessor George Ikkos, RSM Psychiatry SectionDr Christos Sideras, Hellenic Psychiatric Association UK DivisionEmotions are crucial to human values and our sense of justice and wellbeing and play a central part in health (including mental health and disease). They are of central interest to varied academic and clinical disciplines in the humanities, neuroscience and psychiatry.This interdisciplinary conference will be of interest to a wide range of researchers (in both neuroscience and the humanities) and psychiatrists, mental health professionals and other clinicians and will bring together distinguished international experts to address a number of questions including:1) How do we explain emotion and mental illness from different perspectives?2) How do we study these phenomena though complementary academic and clinical disciplines?3) How are emotion and mental illness represented in text, image, sound, or through scientific methods?For information on availability for nearby accommodation and book rooms guaranteed at the lowest available rates please go to: http://www.HotelMap.com/M443C8.45 amRegistration, tea and coffee9.15 amWelcomeProfessor George Ikkos, President, RSM Psychiatry SectionSession I: How do we attempt to interpret emotion and mental disorder?Chair:  Dr Anthony Fry, RSM Psychiatry Section9.30 amEmotion, the brain and the soulProfessor Michael Trimble, Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Neurology, Institute of Neurology, University College London9.55 amMelancholy in ancient medicineDr George Kazantzidis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University10.20 amEvolutionary biology of attachment and depressionProfessor Randolph Nesse, Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan10.45 amDiscussion of session I11.15 amTea and coffeeSession II: How do we approach emotion and mental disorder?Chair:  Dr Rhodri Hayward, Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London11.30 amEmotion and madness as a historical problemProfessor Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton11.55 amFear and anxiety in early modern and modern historyDr Andreas Bähr, Lecturer in Modern History, Free University, Berlin12.20 pmVarieties of depression and their treatment in the 21st CenturyDr Daniel McQueen, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Royal Free Hospital, London12.45 pmLunch2.00 pmNeuropsychoanalysis: The dynamic brain and the embodied nature of emotionDr Aikaterini Photopoulou, Senior Lecturer Subunit of Psychoanalysis, Department of Psychology, University College London2.20 pmDiscussion of session IISection III: How do we represent emotion and mental disorderChair:  Professor Femi Oyebode, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham2.50 pmBrain imaging of emotion in psychosis and autismProfessor Sophia Frangou, Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of Psychosis Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA3.10 pmMadness in the visual arts from Antiquity to the BaroqueProfessor Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Ass. Professor of Art History, Columbia University3.35 pmTea and coffee4.00 pmMadness of tragedyProfessor Glenn Most, Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa4.25 pmDiscussion of session III4.45 pmClosing remarksProfessor Angelos Chaniotis, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton5.00 pmClose of meeting followed by the AGM of the Psychiatry Section7.00 pmDrinks reception in the Atrium7.30 pmAnnual dinner of the Psychiatry Section in the ENT RoomAfter dinner speakerSir Richard Thompson, President, Royal College of Physicians