Embodiment and creativity in Mental Health Care and Education, Delivered By Professor Frank Röhricht

Join the Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing for an engaging seminar discussing embodiment and creativity in mental health care and education, delivered by Professor Frank Röhricht.

Professor Frank Röhricht is a Consultant Psychiatrist; Body psychotherapist; Honorary Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Wolfson Institute for Population Health, Queen Mary University London; and Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, St. George’s Medical School, Nicosia University / Cyprus. As well as Medical Director for Research, Innovation and Medical Education East London NHS Foundation Trust.

Discussion and insight

The paradigm shift in cognitive sciences towards the notion of embodied cognition (EC) emphasises the importance of emotion and perception for action. This in turn resulted in renewed interest in subjectivity and relational processes at the heart of the health and wellbeing agenda. Embodied, nonverbal, experiential approaches to therapy and education in health care work at the level of the immediate subjective experiences and utilise people’s strengths and capabilities as well as lived experience centrally. The talk will introduce EC as the renewed biopsychosocial paradigm in healthcare and present findings from studies.

Further information

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