Monday 28th April 2025 at 8:00 p.m. BST - Differentiating the psychiatric from the psychic - Dr Graham Kidd

REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE TWO HOURS BEFORE THE TALK IS DUE TO START. ALL SPR WEB EVENTS ARE RECORDED AND A LINK TO THE RECORDING WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY SENT TO THOSE WHO REGISTER TO ATTEND WHEN THE RECORDING IS READY. Join us for an enlightening talk on Differentiating the psychiatric from the psychic From the speaker: Experiences that are reported to the SPR often, if not always, feature unusual perceptions that may be interpreted as hallucinations. These, together with strange ideas and intense mood states, are of course the stuff of psychiatric disorder. How to distinguish a psychiatric disorder from a valid paranormal experience is sometimes not easy, and there may indeed be a genuine overlap. I will attempt to elucidate by describing a simple model of the mind so as to properly define and describe illness with its common presentations, as opposed to vulnerability to illness, and indeed what may be considered genuine paranormal phenomena. I will also suggest what action should be taken should illness be suspected.