How we make memories and how memories make us

Psychosis is often a misunderstood medical condition. For all of us, the line between a functioning and a broken narrative is all too easily broken. Join psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane in conversation, as she reveals the latest thinking about how memories are made and how, in turn, they make us. How we build personal narratives which are held in common by the great works of literature and poetry and in fairy tales.

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Speakers

Veronica O’Keane is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, where she leads a research programme in depression. The medical model of psychiatry she believes, is deeply inadequate to the task of repairing a broken narrative after a period of psychosis. Bringing the evidence of neuroscience to psychiatry and the richness of literature to her patient analysis, Veronica offers an original scientific and empathetic approach to understanding how memory is made.

Location

The Royal Institution 21 Albemarle Street London W1S W1S

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