Seminar – 5th March 2025
Empathy in Clinical Psychiatry: Aspiration and Reality
We would like to invite you to a seminar titled
‘Empathy in Clinical Psychiatry: Aspiration and Reality’,
at St Catherine’s College, Oxford,
on the 5th of March 2025.
This event is organised by the Collaborating Centre for Values-based practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College Oxford, the Oxford Empathy Programme and the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester.
This event is organised by the Collaborating Centre for Values-based practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College Oxford, the Oxford Empathy Programme and the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester.
Whilst a great deal of neuroscientific research has been carried out on empathy, less work has been carried out on empathy and its role in the work of mental health care clinicians, who face significant challenges derived from intrinsically challenging clinical presentations, high workloads, time pressures, unsuitable physical environments, and increasing documentation requirements.
This seminar will seek to provide a space for reflecting on these and related challenges in real world clinical mental health care clinical practice.
| 09:30-10:00 | Arrival and registration |
| 10:00-10:15 | Introduction to the VBP Collaborative Centre: Professors Ashok Handa and Bill Fullford |
| 10:15 to 10:30 | Introduction to the day: Professor Jeremy Howick |
| Morning sessions | |
| 10:30 to 11:00 | Session 1: The Historical Epistemology of Empathy. Professor Ivana S Marková, Hull & York Medical School |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Session 2: Empathy from a social neuroscience perspective. Dr Idalmis Santiesteban, University of Liverpool |
| 11:30 to 12:00 | Session 3: The problems of empathy. Dr Sarah Songhorian, University of Milan and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy |
| 12:00 to 12:30 | Session 4: Empathy and Psychological Interventions, Dr Bryony Insua Summerhays, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| 12:30 to 13:00 | Session 5: Empathy and the care of people with suicidal behaviour. Dr Karen Lascelles, Nurse Consultant, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch |
| Afternoon sessions | |
| 14:00 to 14: 30 | Session 6: Humanising Healthcare for People with intellectual disabilities. Dr Bojana Daw Srdanović. Research Fellow, Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth |
| 14:30 to 15:00 | Session 7: Empathy in forensic psychiatry. Dr Robert Cornish, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | Session 8: Empathy and the work of clinical psychiatrists. Dr Alvaro Barrera, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | General discussion |
| 16:00 | End |
