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Family Caregivers : A Silent Workforce
Challenges in Supporting a Loved One
Speaker
In this talk, Norman Sartorius emphasizes the critical need to address the challenges faced by caregivers of individuals with mental illness. Often overlooked, these caregivers, typically family members, find themselves thrust into unfamiliar roles, grappling with feelings of guilt, shame, fear and burnout. Caregivers, often also women, also find themselves facing the harshest stigma and judgement. They navigate complex emotions and uncertainties about their impact on their loved one’s illness. Sartorius advocates for focusing on supporting and empowering caregivers as a crucial starting point in improving mental health care.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Speaker
Norman Sartorius
Known as the `living legend’ of psychiatry, Norman Sartorius has been Director of the Division of Mental Health of WHO, President of the World Psychiatric Association and the European Psychiatric Association. He has held several academic positions- professor at the University of Geneva, University of Zagreb, University of Prague and an honorary visiting or adjunct professor at the University of London, Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, the University of Beijing, Washington University in St. Louis, the New York University, the University of Belgrade, and the University of Florida. He has written and edited nearly 100 books, and his journal articles have been cited 79,0000 times. Prof. Sartorius is known for his scholarship, wisdom and wit and has a deep interest in the role of caregivers. He has been closely associated with NIMHANS in Bangalore where he has been coming every year for the last decade to train early career psychiatrists.
