Why You Are Not Sick When You Suffer Psychologically: Jim van Os

Name: Why You Are Not Sick When You Suffer Psychologically: Jim van Os
Start: 2026-12-08T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-08T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Arminius

Tue, 8 Dec 2026 · 20:00 — 22:00

Arminius, Rotterdam

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Foto: Laurier · CC BY 4.0

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Psychiatrist Jim van Os gives a lecture on the relationship between psychological suffering and physical well-being.

About: Jim van Os

A professor at UMC Utrecht and one of psychiatry's most cited researchers, Jim van Os has spent decades pushing mental healthcare away from diagnostic labelling and towards recovery-focused, person-centred practice. His talks bridge rigorous science and the lived experience of people in mental health care.

Most influential scientist (Thomson Reuters Web of Science list, since 2014)

Lifetime Achievement Award, Schizophrenia International Research Society (2023)

30+

Years of clinical experience in psychiatry

What's new

aug 2026
Jim van Os appears on August 30, 2026 as the sixth and final guest in the final season of VPRO Zomergasten, interviewed by Janine Abbring.
aug 2026
His new book What Psychological Suffering Is. And Why You Are Not Sick with Mental Difficulties appears at the end of August 2026.
feb 2026
Van Os attracts international attention with an opinion article in Nature, in which he advocates for the definitive abolition of the DSM.

Tracks

De DSM-5 voorbij!Influential book from 2014 on personal diagnostics as an alternative to the DSM system

We zijn God nietBook from 2021 (with Myrrhe van Spronsen) on a new psychiatry of collaboration

Kopzorgen. Psychedelica begrijpen in 33 vragenBook from 2024 (with Simona Karbouniaris) on psychedelics and their effects

Wat psychisch lijden isNew book, published in late August 2026, for a broad audience

Goede GGZ!Book from 2016 with a blueprint for renewed mental health care

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