Lors de la prochaine séance du Philosophy of Psychiatry Webinar, nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir Nancy Nyquist Potter (University of Louisville) pour une conférence intitulée « Traumatic Lives and Trustworthy Psychiatrists ».  

Résumé

The central virtue of psychiatrists and, indeed, of all of us, is to be trustworthy. Psychiatrists are trained in many facets of care for service users. But for some service users’ difficulties, psychiatrists may be inadequately prepared for working with those who experience living with trauma. Others may have the needed skills but are unsure of how to strengthen their skills for interpersonal and institutional improvement, thus decreasing distrust whether in the institution itself or in particular psychiatrists. This paper draws together the relationship between people living traumatic lives and what it might look like for psychiatrists to be trustworthy to them. I set out various definitions of trust and trustworthiness, distrust, and trauma, with commentary on strengths and weakness of those definitions. Next, I set out several different kinds of trauma, mindful of the overlaps and the problem of generating too many distinctions. The last section of the paper offers a number of epistemic and ethical qualities that trustworthy psychiatrists need in order to be trustworthy—and to be seen to be trustworthy—to those who live with the aftermath of trauma as well as those who live with everyday ongoing trauma in their lives.

La conférence sera donnée en anglais. La participation au webinaire est gratuite, mais l’inscription est obligatoire sur notre site web.

Organisé par Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien et Sarah Arnaud, pour le Groupe de recherche en philosophie de la psychiatrie.