DGPPN Prize for UOI student
Anna Golova wins the 2024 DGPPN Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Uehiro Oxford Institute DPhil student Anna Golova has won the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics' 2024 Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
With the Prize, the DGPPN honours outstanding work that contributes to the discussion of current fundamental questions in psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as philosophy, particularly in the areas of medical ethics, anthropology and scientific theory.
The prize includes an award of 6,000 euros and is presented annually at the DGPPN Congress in Berlin.
Anna's winning entry "Is It Just the Depression Talking? - Autonomous and Authentic Desires in Depression" analyses the autonomy and authenticity of suicidal desires in people with depression. In her work, she argues that people diagnosed with depression can have an authentic wish to die that can ground an autonomous choice to end their life.
Anna is grateful to the DGPPN for the opportunity to share her work, and for the acknowledgement of philosophers' contributions to important questions in psychiatry.
Read more about Anna's work.
Image (c) DGPPN Claudia Burger
