Browsing by Author "Baumann, Sean"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Art speaks to and from silence
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Dowling, Finuala; Baumann, Sean
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid continues his conversation with Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann about how art can be used to bring public attention to difficult and hidden areas of mental illness. Finuala discusses the methods he uses to catch her audiences attention and Sean talks about methods he uses to 'dislocate' the senses of his audience while emphasising the continued problem of stigma around mental illness. This is the fifth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Experiences of mental illness through music
    (2015-01-21) Baumann, Sean
    In this video, Sean Baumann, a senior specialist psychiatrist in UCT's Department of Psychiatry and Mental health, discusses the misrepresentation of mental illness in film and theater, particular misrepresentations of schizophrenia-like disorders. He makes the argument that an improved understanding of mental health by viewing it from a first-person perspective would help address this problem. He describes how music can offer rich representations of mental illness. This is the third video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - In dialogue about mental illness
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Baumann, Sean; Dowling, Finuala
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid engages in discussion with Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann about how poetry and music can help us understand and talk about mental illness. They discuss the insider-outsider view of mental illness, experience of the world through the eyes of psychosis, and the role of imagination and empathy when listening to first-hand accounts of mental illness. This is the fourth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    The problematic neglect of phenomenology in contemporary psychiatry
    (2010) Baumann, Sean
    An adequate understanding of the phenomena of the psychoses remains elusive. This might seem a rather perplexing observation given strenuous research endeavours and a wealth of scientific information, particularly in recent years in the domains of molecular biology and neuro-imaging. A wide range of factors may be held to account for these limitations, one being that the brain is the most complex thing in the known universe, and should not be expected to yield its workings in much the same way as broken bones. Another is the enduring and profoundly mysterious gulf between observable neurobiological events and, for example, the experience of having thoughts inserted into one’s brain, an enigma as much for philosophers as for psychiatrists. Related to this is a problem that some might regard as among the most significant achievements of modern psychiatry, the ICD and DSM diagnostic systems.