Conferences

Sunday, April 7, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose will hold a conference on The 21^st Century Psychiatry, between Psychoanalysis and Cybernetics. Ticket price: 16 lei.

About the conference

The twentieth century was certainly marked, not only in medicine, psychiatry, but also at the level of the whole European culture, and, reflexively, at the level of the American culture, by the Freudian psychoanalytic theory. This happened especially because this theory's derivative is a therapeutic method about which any literate has probably heard, at least once in their lifetime: psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis penetrates into the depths of the human soul revealing the fantasies, frustrations, insecurities of each individual and the fact that they generate, in many cases, some of the diseases of the mind.

From its beginnings, psychoanalysis has helped psychiatrists, and not only them, to discover the evil in man and to avoid, by using psychotherapy, its turning into disease and chaos. But no other century since the creation of the World was shaken by larger social cataclysms, caused by the evil spirit and the power fantasies of men, than the 21^st century. Therefore, it can be rightly said that everyone who lived in the 21^st century can be considered a survivor. The twentieth century was also the century of the limitless technological explosion and the birth of information technologies that have opened up a new world - one that includes in a global network everyone on the planet, who can communicate without boundaries - the Worldwide Web, the famous www. Under the effect of this network, in just two decades, culture, economy, education, medicine, and pathology have changed dramatically, the individual virtualizing its identity until near dissolution. If Freud discovered that in each of us functions a world of fantasy in completion to reality, the Internet transformed the real world into a deeply virtualized world, haunted by collective fantasies which travel at the speed of thought, and psychiatry can only wonder, as the apostle Peter did two millennia ago, "Quo vadis?" Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose

About Prof. Florin Tudose

He is a Ph.D. University Professor, at the Faculty of Sociology - Psychology of the "Spiru Haret" University, Bucharest; the Head of the Liaison Psychiatry Department from the Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest.

He founded and organized in 1980, together with Prof. Dr. C. Gorgos, the first mental health centre in Romania.

He founded in 1995 the first service of Liaison Psychiatry, which became the centre of reference for psychiatric reform in Romania.

He was named dean of the Faculty of Sociology - Psychology of the "Spiru Haret" University from December 2009 to May 2012.

Significant works: He wrote many books and scientific papers, communicated or published in journals of clinical psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, correlation of the somatic disease -psychological aetiology, adolescent disorders, quality of life, interpersonal communication: The Family Doctor's Psychiatry (2013), Treaty of psychopathology and psychiatry for psychologists (2011), Psychiatry in medical practice (2007), Psychopathology and therapeutic guidelines in psychiatry (2007), Fundamentals in medical psychology - medical and clinical psychology in the psychologist's practice (first edition - 2003; second edition - 2006), Psychiatry in medical practice (2007), Wandering syndromes (2005), Horizons of the Medical Psychology (2003), The approach to the patient in psychiatry - practical guide (first edition - 2002, second edition - 2004), Sexology letter box (2004), Psychopathology and psychiatry for psychologists (2002).

Other works: Treaty of psychiatry (Vol. II) The Reform without anaesthesia; Erotica in everyday life; Communication - prevention and therapy in cervical pathology; A modern approach to medical psychology.

A special place holds the work Psychopolitics - a fake treaty on social psychopathology (1996), reprinted and completed in 2004 under the title Relapse psychopolitics, which is a comprehensive analysis of the phenomena occurring in the last two decades in the Romanian socio-political area, offering a gallery of portraits with those who are on the first stage of local politics.

Between 2004 and 2009 he was the producer of over 200 TVR Medicina shows at the television station TVRM. He is a member in the editorial boards of the magazines: Infomedica, Psihiatru.Ro, Revista Medicală Română, Medicina Sexualităţii, Practica Medicală, and the Annals of the "Spiru Haret" University.

He holds a tenured membership in the Disciplinary Committee of the Bucharest College of Physicians since 2005.

He is an advisor of the National Programme "Health Education in Romanian Schools" since 2003.

He is a consultant at the Romanian League for Mental Health since 2003.

He was awarded the Romanian Psychiatric Association's prize for excellence in psychiatry in 2008.

He was or still is a collaborator at the following publications: Viaţa Studenţească, Amfiteatru, Curierul Românesc, Expres, Evenimentul Zilei, Ochiul Soacrei, Libertatea, Formula AS, Privirea, Dilema, Banii Noştri, Almanahurile Academiei Caţavencu, Adevărul, România Liberă, Click, Psihologia.

He has a permanent collaboration with the following radio and television stations: PRO TV, TVR 1, Realitatea TV, România TV, Antena 1, Prima TV, Speranța TV, Radio România Actualităţi, Radio Bucureşti, Radio Europa FM, Radio France International, BBC - the medical department, Radio Guerilla.

Translated by: Izabella Feher