Professor Lisa Cosgrove’s Lecture ’Psychiatry’s Crisis of Credibility and the Epistemic Consequences of Commercialised Science’
Professor Lisa Cosgrove, PhD—clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston—will deliver a lecture titled “Psychiatry’s Crisis of Credibility and the Epistemic Consequences of Commercialised Science” on Monday, 19 May, at 4 p.m., at the SASA Audiovisual Archives and Centre for Digitization (Hall 102).
Professor Cosgrove’s work focuses on ethical and medico-legal issues in psychiatry, with a particular emphasis on the relationships between academic institutions and the pharmaceutical industry.
In the period between 2010 and 2015, she worked as a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Centre for Ethics, Harvard University. She also served as a consultant to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and co-authored the book ‘Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform’, which analyses the pressure of the pharmaceutical industry on psychiatry and proposes reforms. Her research has substantially contributed to the understanding of how financial interests may shape psychiatric diagnosis and treatment guidelines, an issue which has far-reaching implications for public policy and patient rights protection.
The lecture will be delivered in English.