El Monday August 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 18:30 p.m.The seminar "Mental Health and Freedom," led by Dr. Juan José Sanguineti and Dr. Pascual Gargiulo, was held. It took place within the context of the III Interdisciplinary Research Week – From Neuroscience to Philosophy and is aimed at university professors, although it is also open to university graduates with a special interest in the subject.

Location: FCB-HUA Amphitheater Classroom, Pilar Campus.

Requires prior registration.

PROGRAM

JUAN JOSÉ SANGUINETI

1. Life, contingency and vital deficiencies.
2. The role of freedom.
3. Notion of dysfunction and psychic anomaly.
4. Degrees of fulfillment of intended duties. Defects, moral vices, mixed vices, disabilities, mental illness, virtues/excellence/genius, differences.
5. Causal aspects of mental deficiencies: a. Cerebral factors and intentional factors. b. Beliefs, culture, society. c. Predispositions.
6. Attitudes towards the psychopathological condition: a. Social constructs. b. Excessive medicalization. c. Spiritualism.
7. To be different.
8. Lust.
9. Neural bases of virtues.

PASCUAL ANGEL GARGIULO

1. Taxonomy in Psychopathology.
2. Algorithms of Phenomenological Psychopathology.
3. Dispositional disorders of intelligence.
4. The problem of personality disorders: Heredity and the role of life experiences.
5. Addressing psychoreactive disorders. Understanding, situation, and biography.
6. Biological causality and explanation of behavior.
7. Psychopathological disorders of bodily origin.
8. Confusional psychoses. Incidence and scope of symptomatic psychoses.
9. Taxonomy of psychoses. The idea of ​​bipartition. Affective disorders.
10. Experimental approaches to psychopathology.
11. Freedom and responsibility. Boundaries, delimitation, and consequences. Medico-legal implications.

Juan José Sanguineti He teaches Philosophy of Knowledge at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome). He is the author of approximately fifteen books and one hundred articles. He was the director of the scientific committee of the STOQ III project (Rome, 2007-2010, Neuroscience area). He regularly teaches doctoral courses and seminars at various universities in Latin America. He is a full member of the Pontifical Roman Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Pascual Ángel Gargiulo He holds a Doctorate in Medicine, specializing in Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine from the National University of Cuyo. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of that university and an Independent Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council). He is the founder and current director of the Laboratory of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology. His research has focused on epistemological and experimental approaches to psychopathological disorders, including applications of neuroscience in education.

Like all PEH seminars, it is free for teachers of the Universidad Austral.

For external participants the cost is $600 and includes lunch.

Information and registration: filosofia@austral.edu.ar