Connecting to Madness | Jim van Os

Connecting to Madness | Jim van Os | TEDxMaastricht

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9 жыл бұрын

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Jim van Os explains that madness has been misrepresented as a 'devastating genetic brain disease', referred to as 'schizophrenia', that is said to leave the person 'completely disabled'. In fact, modern science has discovered that subtle states of madness - psychosis - are quite common in the general population, and linked to social and emotional factors. Madness, therefore, is about human variation. We can all connect to it, using novel mobile apps that track thoughts and experience in daily life.
Jim van Os is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
He trained in Psychiatry in Casablanca (Morocco), Bordeaux (France) and finally at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley/Bethlem Royal Hospital in London (UK) and after his clinical training was awarded a three-year UK Medical Research Council Training Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1995, he moved to Maastricht University Medical Centre. He is on the editorial board of several European and US psychiatric journals such as Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, European Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Schizophrenia Research, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Early Intervention in Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, Psychosis Journal, The Journal of Mental Health and the Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences. He is also an Academic Editor at PLoS ONE.
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@lisanaber3097 9 жыл бұрын

It is great to see a courageous psychiatrist openly challenging the pervasive and irrational organic pessimism that has dehumanized psychiatry. Well done.

@user-lc9lc3my4y 6 жыл бұрын

Lisa Naber EXACTLY ! Finally a SANE psychiatrist!

@bartkoppers6628 7 жыл бұрын

I watched this video a few times and it gives me feeling of hope for a change in psychiatry and how the 'experts' will change there treatment towards their patients. Jim is changing the way people look at the psychiatry in general and making it less judgemental for others. What will cause improvement in recovery of psychiatric illnesses. Keep up the good work Jim!

@andiemacdream 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.After 15 years with this diagnosis I realized that I am normal . Now I try to get rid of the stigma. I always knew that I am not mentally ill. A crisis is a chance, chance for change.A sign that all is too much and it is time for a break. I will be a peer counseller and help others.

@lesbiancuttlefish5715 9 жыл бұрын

Brilliant and beautifully human. Thank you

@davidmlee3573 8 жыл бұрын

Simple and elegant. What a boon if van Os' talk was given to teenagers and adults throughout our cultures!

@shells4donna 9 жыл бұрын

Thought provoking and non judgmental.

@mindfulmoments4956 8 жыл бұрын

This is not just for schizophrenia - labels (fancy names) should not be given for any mental illness. This is because “mental illnesses” are diagnosed using subjective evaluations - there are no blood tests, tissue tests, X-rays or any of that sort (no objective tests at all). Diagnosis made this way also fails to meet the Virchowian standard of disease. When a person is labeled as “mentally ill” (and are often told that these “are long-term conditions”), for the patient, having a label itself can lead to a great deal of worry - thinking that one is mentally ill permanently, ‘doomed for life’, ‘why me’, etc. This will lead to excessive mental proliferation, worry, rumination, etc., and could in turn aggravate their situation (many psychological studies have clearly shown that rumination, worry, etc., lead to mental illness). A label can also increase stigma, affecting how others treat the person, further aggravating the whole situation. All this mental proliferation, worry, rumination, would also gradually result in adverse structural changes in the brain (via epigenetic and neuroplastic changes in the brain - there are so many studies that support this). Then, the person is really mentally ill.

@user-lc9lc3my4y 6 жыл бұрын

Exactly !

@chapstic593 5 жыл бұрын

the cognative deficiets present in schizophrenia can objectively measured because they're the same everytime. Also try working with a schizo for a day in the early stages of the illness and look him in the eye and say you didnt get frustrated. We lag behind we lack understanding . its not hidden

@mitchmander6642 7 жыл бұрын

van Os is the best psychiatrist!

@triflebizarre 5 жыл бұрын

Carefully and brilliantly illuminated talk. TY

@morganmurphy8034 4 жыл бұрын

My brother was diagnosed with "schizophrenia" and he was my shaman. He showed me the light. He taught me my most valuable lessons. Mental illness is a societal construct. It is not an "illness" in any form. This TED talk is a light of hope in the world of psychiatry, which I have lost complete faith in, except for people like Jim van Os.

@MsGnor 7 жыл бұрын

Great talk, thanks Jim van Os and TED xxx

@user-gn9dg7mp3s Жыл бұрын

facinating and thought provoking- thanks so much for your work in this area.

@rsalden 9 жыл бұрын

Brilliant !

@mad-sense 6 жыл бұрын

Jim van Os speaks clearly and succinctly and does an excellent job of connecting to what the experience is like. I use Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to prevent the recurrence of psychosis - we can interrupt the train of thought that voices provoke to own our reaction and response to them. Recovery is achievable when you know how.

@hauwaubello_empoweringthee 7 жыл бұрын

beautiful

@internationalerTAGcoka-5 2 жыл бұрын

Jim van Os my Respekt for YOU! Lg

@mjennifer142 7 жыл бұрын

Shout out to my "mentally Ill" people. I love y'all. I haven't been diagnosed but..I know they would tell me something. But I honestly believe..that even though we suffer from it..we..are better then the others..we know more then the regular "normal" people. No one can tell me other wise. I have my own self and beliefs. Everything I say is mine. And I am gifted with everything and every ability. Aaahhh I'm so happy.

@Sanela1 6 жыл бұрын

Great encouragement for everyone who might feel disabled due to whatever psychological issues they might be facing : In fact, the experience is Enabling us to find our purpose.. And purpose is something that too many people lack.. I'm talking about people who don't even have any other psychological problem. Heard of the term "Wounded Healer"? Love it

@JanCarol11 7 жыл бұрын

How can I get that "Everybody has psychosis" clip isolated (out of the context of the talk) so that I can help people with it? Attention is important to people in distress - this is clear and concise, and a valuable tool for helping people in crisis.

@thomasrimmer36 2 жыл бұрын

Holy… that‘s crazy… after my episode I thought for a long time what this symtoms may be.. my result was the same.. a fastthinking interpretations of daily happening things and in my episode i was thinking about a group of intelligent people which were sourrounding me could figure out what‘s the matter and that is unbelievable

@ShiningBellyDance 7 жыл бұрын

What is the app called that was mentiones in the video? Is it publucly available yet?

@jimvanos950 7 жыл бұрын

Yes, PsyMate, available Android and iTunes

@mjennifer142 7 жыл бұрын

We need more stories but deetalied stories of what other experience and then tell ours and have a conversation with one another.

@Sanela1 6 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree.. That would give us the real opportunity to learn more about each other and from each other directly, great way to relate, instead of helplessly searching for information elsewhere and not looking further.. Did you know that there are people who make videos of their experiences here? Even if they might start without knowing exactly what is it that they are experiencing about themselves or someone else related to some situation...They title their videos the best way they think others who might relate would be able to find

@PatrickBateman1987 6 жыл бұрын

doesn't address negative symptoms

@kuukuyankson2033 4 ай бұрын

Well, to quote Shakespeare, “What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.” You can call Schizophrenia by any other name and it will still present the same symptoms.

@electrikwatson3403 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah.... everybody is not going through this. This is some heavy shit.

@electrikwatson3403 6 жыл бұрын

but this is a very positive outlook this dude has and that's cool. very sensible way to put it.

@margueritecawood8843 Жыл бұрын

You brave brave girl.

@violetmiller3723 7 жыл бұрын

I really do not understand why psychiatry still uses the old Greek name made by Eugene Bleuler in about 1860??? Schizophrenia is a devastating word and it really means in the eyes of the general population a serious and heavy madness.

@justinakers3196 5 жыл бұрын

I had a hard time taking the video serious after the music started playing. They could have done without that. Other than that, decent video

@spijkerpoes 8 жыл бұрын

aieee - a critique on psychiatry? strange that ted hasn't banned it yet..

@GerardMeijssen 8 жыл бұрын

A distinguished professor on psychiatry, really influential and part of the change that is happening in mental health in the Netherlands and you deny his point, why?

@spijkerpoes 8 жыл бұрын

+Gerard Meijssen as a fellow Dutch man you should recognise irony! ..I noticed a tendency at TED to ban certain talks witch were too critical and out of the box. so i am really glad with this talk!! Still I think that the field of psychiatry has way too much dogmatic thinking and far too big a influence and might in society to ever be taken serious as a science. but I can only speak of my own personal experience..

@GerardMeijssen 8 жыл бұрын

I do agree. Irony is hard.

@spijkerpoes 8 жыл бұрын

oh now I remember.. ..i was really hard pressed to find any criticism on psychiatry in popular media.. ..other than scientology of course. There's almost none at hand. Tough I found a really good one in a TTC lecture from one Daniel Robinson. I might just have to upload it one day (-:

@nicolearbabzadeh6857 7 жыл бұрын

spijkerpoes I would like to recommend Toxic Psychiatry by Dr Peter Breggins and Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker. They are the most elucidating criticisms of psychiatry that I've ever read.

@abdullahalsattam9113 8 жыл бұрын

كناري

@samialbedri Жыл бұрын

JSK?

@BigBallBearingturBo 7 жыл бұрын

Cannabis use, lmao. Okay.

@electrikwatson3403 6 жыл бұрын

yeah.... weed leads to psychosis.... it's some fucked shit but it's real for a few people at least

@BALAKRISHNAN-up4sp 3 жыл бұрын

psychosis is a learnt reaction to stimuli emanating from unhelpful envion.

@bliblablubb0712 2 жыл бұрын

@@BALAKRISHNAN-up4sp True.

@PlanetDeLaTourette 3 ай бұрын

One day people will understand this man knows nothing and only produces annoying noise, that will resolve absolutely nothing. Only then we can begin to move forward as a species.