People often seek help for mental problems because they are suffering subjectively. Yet, for decades, the subjective experience of patients has been marginalized. This is in part due to the dominant medical model of mental illness, which has tended to treat subjective experience as a quaint relic of a scientifically less enlightened time. To the extent that subjective symptoms are related to the underlying problem, it is often assumed that they will be taken care of if the more objective symptoms, such as behavioral and physiological responses are treated. Given that 'mental’ disorders are named for, and defined by, their subjective mental qualities, it is perhaps not surprising, in retrospect, that the effectiveness of treatments that have sidelined mental qualities have been disappointing at best. Negative views about subjective experience took root in psychiatry and allied fields decades ago when there were few avenues for rigorously studying subjective experience. Today, however, research on consciousness is thriving, and offers a viable scientific approach that could help achieve a deeper understanding of mental disorders and their treatment.
Conférence de Joseph LeDoux (Professeur de neurosciences à l'Université de New York) dans le cadre du Colloquium du département d'Etudes Cognitives de l'ENS-PSL.
Catégories: Colloquium du DEC
Mot-clés : comportement, pathologie, émotion, santé mentale, trouble mental, traitement, peur, anxiété, réaction
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Joseph LeDoux est professeur de neurosciences à l'Université de New York, et directeur du Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety (centre de neurosciences sur la peur et l'anxiété).
Ses recherches sont axées sur le lien entre mémoire et émotion, en particulier sur les mécanismes de la peur.
Joseph LeDoux est également le chanteur et auteur-compositeur du groupe rock The Amygdaloids et se produit avec Colin Dempsey dans le duo acoustique So We Are.
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