In this lecture, given at the Institute of Psychiatry in January 2021, Jim van Os give a broad overview over what we know about psychosis.
Jim van Os: “To what degree we need brain research to understand psychosis, what we need to do for research to inform clinical care and to what degree good psychosis care involves public mental health? Maybe a bit complex here and there, but hopefully helpful in understanding how we try to make sense of psychosis”.
Prof. dr. Jim van Os, Chair Division Neuroscience, Utrecht University Medical Centre. Jim is also Visiting Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. Jim works at the interface of ‘hard’ brain science, health services research, art and subjective experiences of people with ‘lived experience’ in mental healthcare.
Jim has been appearing on the Thomson-Reuter Web of Science list of ‘most influential scientific minds of our time’ since 2014. In 2014 he published his book ‘Beyond DSM-5‘, and in 2016 the book ‘Good Mental Health Care’.
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