Nikolas Rose
FBA, FAcSS, FRSA Nikolas Rose was Professor of Sociology at Kings College London from 2012 until his retirement in April 2021. He was the founding Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s and Co-Founder and Co-Director of King’s ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, the UK’s first major research centre on the social dimensions of mental distress.
Read Nikolas’ full biography5E Mental Health
Can we put brain, body and world together again in psychiatry? Can we make sense of our mental afflictions by putting the whole multicellular organism that is the human being back into its place in the biosphere?
In these notes I want to suggest that we can detect the emergence of a new style of thought concerning afflictions of the mind or the soul, that is to say, concerning those issues which, over the last century, have come to be understood as the province of psychiatry.
I term this approach ‘5 E Mental Health’ – a way of thinking and acting that would entail a fudamental transformation in ‘the psychiatric complex’ – a paradigm shift in the social role of psychiatry as radical as ’the closure of the asylums’.
This paper, now in its final form, has been accepted for publication in Transcultural Psychiatry. You can read the final draft (as a PDF) via the link below.
From the blog …
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Letter From Trieste – February 2010
It doesn’t usually snow in Trieste in February, said my guide as we battled through a blizzard up the steep slopes of the Parco San Giovanni. I was in a Trieste at the request of Dr. Franco Rotelli to give the opening keynote address at a major international conference on “what is mental health today?’ Trieste, as many will know, was in the heartland of the movement for democratic psychiatry in Italy, the movement led by Franco Basaglia that resulted in the famous Law 180 of 1978, that froze admissions to psychiatric hospitals and led – or was…
Questioning Humanity: Being Human in a Posthuman Age
Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose, address profound intellectual questions. What is the human condition? In this intellectually ground breaking book the authors push beyond dualisms of humanist and post humanist scholarship. They outline an alternative judicious naturalistic humanism. The clear writing conveys complex ideas which makes this a compelling read.
