Is There More to Mental Health? Let’s Discuss Flourishing, Suffering, and Spirituality
Tuesday, 25 Feb 2025 at 7:30 pm – South Ballroom, Memorial Union
2025 Veritas ForumDr. Warren Kinghorn, a psychiatrist from Duke University, believes that modern mental health has produced helpful medications and practices but that the benefits are limited by an overly individualistic and mechanistic view of what a person is. Using the alternate view of a person posited by Thomas Aquinas, a Christian thinker, Dr. Kinghorn suggests reframing how we think about mental health without discarding the beneficial treatments of modern medicine. Join us for a conversation featuring Dr. Kinghorn and Dr. F. Marty Martinez, a psychologist who retired in 2021 after working at ISU for 33 years. Dr. Eric Weber, ISU professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, will moderate. Dr. Warren Kinghorn is associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center, co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, and a staff psychiatrist at the Durham VA Medical Center. Dr. F. Marty Martinez has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as a staff and sport psychologist at the ISU Counseling Center for 33 years until he retired in 2021 to go into private practice. He also served as a team sport psychologist for USA Track & Field. This event is the 2025 Veritas Forum. It is sponsored by the Christian Faculty and Staff Association and the Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government). Note: The recording of this lecture will be shared on a delay. Please check back.2025 Veritas ForumDr. Warren Kinghorn, a psychiatrist from Duke University, believes that modern mental health has produced helpful medications and practices but that the benefits are limited by an overly individualistic and mechanistic view of what a person is. Using the alternate view of a person posited by Thomas Aquinas, a Christian thinker, Dr. Kinghorn suggests reframing how we think about mental health without discarding the beneficial treatments of modern medicine. Join us for a conversation featuring Dr. Kinghorn and Dr. F. Marty Martinez, a psychologist who retired in 2021 after working at ISU for 33 years. Dr. Eric Weber, ISU professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, will moderate. Dr. Warren Kinghorn is associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center, co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, and a staff psychiatrist at the Durham VA Medical Center. Dr. F. Marty Martinez has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as a staff and sport psychologist at the ISU Counseling Center for 33 years until he retired in 2021 to go into private practice. He also served as a team sport psychologist for USA Track & Field. This event is the 2025 Veritas Forum. It is sponsored by the Christian Faculty and Staff Association and the Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government). Note: The recording of this lecture will be shared on a delay. Please check back.
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