Faculty of Medicine – annual Wade Lecture
Ruby Wax on ‘Being Human: perspectives on anxiety and depression and how to address these through mindfulness and compassion’
Date: Thursday 14 January 2021
Time: 18:00 – 19:00
Venue: Virtual / Zoom
For the Faculty of Medicine’s annual Wade Lecture, Ruby Wax, internationally renowned comedian, mental health campaigner, best-selling author and Chancellor of the University of Southampton, will join Professor David Baldwin, Professor of Psychiatry within Medicine at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with Southern Health NHS Trust, for what promises to be a fascinating discussion on Ruby’s personal and family history of depression, her training in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and her role as a mental health campaigner.
They will also discuss how adverse impacts of the pandemic on individual and societal mental health can be minimised, with particular consideration to young people, the socioeconomically disadvantaged, and health and social care professionals
The evening will be hosted by Professor Diana Eccles, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
To get more information, and to register for this event please visit this Eventbrite page.
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