This webinar was recorded on 8 April 2024 as part of the PsychX webinar series.
Speaker: Eiko Fried, the Netherlands
Outline: Systems are everywhere: the climate system, the train system, the healthcare system, and the political system. In the last two decades, complex systems approaches have enabled considerable advances in explanation and prediction across a range of disciplines, including ecology, meteorology, and medicine. Here I introduce a systems approach to mental health problems, where disorders like depression are conceptualised as emergent states arising from dynamic interactions among bio-psycho-social elements. I show that this perspective provides utility for description, prediction, understanding, and treatment. It offers new lenses through which to study mental illness (e.g., attractor states, phase transitions), and new levers to treat them (e.g., early warning signals, novel treatment targets).
PsychX webinar series: Mental health expertise should be readily available to all. PsychX conducts monthly sessions, fostering short and interactive discussions focused on translational neuroscience. This webinar series is organised by the ECNP PsychX Programme Committee.
This online series provides valuable insights for researchers and clinicians while promoting networking opportunities within the professional community.
