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SUNDAY 24 march 12-1 PM
HOW DO WE REACH CERTAINTY ABOUT THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN Life?
Uncertainty about the future is a universal human experience. Anxiety about the future is heightened for all of us at times of conflict, financial crisis, or during an epidemic, but isn’t it always there to some extent?
A common reaction to our uncertainty is psychic distress. We try to deal with this distress in different ways. A key strategy is avoidance, which sometimes can be so pervasive that a complete detachment from reality becomes the solution.
Despite living in an era with ever-increasing societal mastery of nature and science, with exponential growth in scientific knowledge and technological abilities, including ‘expanded reality’ (virtual reality), why do we still feel uncertain? Can there be something fundamentally positive concerning our uncertainty?
Our presentation hopes to explore these questions of certainty and uncertainty in the context of mental health experience. What experiences increase our confidence in the future? How do we reach certainty about the important questions in life?
speakers
Dr Giovanna Moretto
Dr Giovanna Moretto has been a Clinical Psychologist since 2006. She has worked for the Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for 15 years. She is now working as a principal psychologist for CAMHS in Cheshire. She is a qualified Interpersonal therapy (IPT-A) therapist and supervisor and evidence-based intervention for moderate and severe depression in adolescence. She is intensively involved in supporting young people presenting various severe mental health problems. Her special interests are depression, trauma and psychogenic movement disorders in young people.
Dr Martin O’Sullivan
Dr Martin O’Sullivan is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist since 1999. He has worked as a Consultant at Guy's Hospital, in London, Mater Hospital in Dublin and in Northland, New Zealand during that period. He is now working as a Hospital-based Paediatric Liaison Psychiatrist in Dublin. Currently, his team deal with a large number of crisis episodes of care annually.
Iman Marie-Louise Simo Dzumgang
Iman Marie-Louise Simo Dzumgang is a Statistics and Mathematical Machine Learning PhD student at University College London since 2023. She priorly completed her undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. In the course of her studies, she has worked as a faculty representative and student ambassador to advocate for the improvement of well-being and mental health (WaMH) facilities in academic environments. She now champions WaMH post-COVID-19 pandemic for research students & young adults in academia.
Gisele Mendonca
Gisele Mendonca has been a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist since 2006. She has worked for various Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for 15 years. For the past 8 years, Gisele has worked in her private practice, helping children of all ages and their families to understand and overcome their emotional difficulties. She also works for OXPIP (Oxford Parent Infant Project), a charity organisation which offers intensive therapeutic help to parents and infants, from conception to two years. She is a training teacher and supervisor.
