In 2002 Lord Owen gave a lecture to the Annual Meeting of the Association of British Neurologists and the British Neuropsychiatry Association on “The effect of serious illness on Heads of State or Government”. This was later published as an Occasional paper in the QJM (Q J Med 2003; 96:325-336) entitled “Diseased, demented, depressed: serious illness in Heads of State. In February 2005, as Chancellor of Liverpool University, Lord Owen delivered the Lord Henry Cohen History of Medicine Lecture on “The effect of Prime Minister Anthony Eden’s illness on his decision-making during the Suez Crisis”.
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June 8th, 2011 |
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Tags: Hubris Syndrome, The Guardian
Speech on ‘Hubris Syndrome’ Delivered by The RT Hon Lord David Owen CH On The Occasion Of The Conferral Of The James Joyce Award By The Literary and Historical Society University College, Dublin
Tuesday 4 October 2011
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October 4th, 2011 |
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“Gordon Brown now suffers that incurable syndrome: ex-PM”
Article by Simon Jenkins, in The Guardian Thursday 14 July 2011
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July 14th, 2011 |
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April 20th, 2011 |
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Tags: Open Mind, Richard Heffner
Published in the The Psychiatrist
Commentary on… Psychiatry and politicians
See special article, pp. 140-145, and commentary, pp. 148-150, this issue.
“Lord Owen has alerted us to the dangers of ill health in heads of government, especially if they strive to keep their illnesses secret. The description of the hubris syndrome is still at an early stage but Owen has provided psychiatrists and other physicians with useful guidance on how to recognise its appearance in persons who hold positions of power. He has also provided advice to doctors caring for such persons.”
“Contempt is one of the more important signs of hubris syndrome. Lying to Parliament or the courts is often a sign of someone in thrall to hubris. In business and banking, collective or corporate hubris is not uncommon as is hubris syndrome among its most powerful leaders. BP, RBS and HBOS need to be the subject of serious case studies for hubris, ‘group think’, tunnel vision, closed minds or silo thinking. There are indications of a neurobiological explanation for the intoxication of power in hubris syndrome.”
April 4th, 2011 |
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ANNUAL WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL LECTURE: Delivered By The Rt Hon Lord Owen
ROYAL COLLEGE OF DEFENCE STUDIES, LONDON THURSDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2010
Lord Owen delivers lecture on whether the decision making of some of our great leaders in the Second World War was affected by illness …… download full lecture here
October 18th, 2010 |
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Tags: Memorial Lecture, Royal College of Defence Studies, Winston Churchill
SPEECH BY THE RT HON LORD OWEN
WEDNESDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2010
Download Speech here, includes footnotes/references.
I am well aware that it must be a manifestation of a hubristic trait to seek to define a new medical syndrome some forty years after I have ceased to practice clinical medicine! An article in BRAIN published in May 2009 which I wrote with Jonathan Davidson was entitled “Hubris Syndrome: An Acquired Personality Disorder?”
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October 6th, 2010 |
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In Sickness and In Power: Hubris Syndrome and The Business World
Speech by The Rt Hon Lord Owen at The Association of British Neurologists Joint Annual Meeting, Liverpool, 25 June 2009
Lord Owen speaks on hubris syndrome in the business world. A full copy of the speech can be downloaded here
June 29th, 2009 |
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Tags: Assoication of British Neurologists, Business World, Hubris Syndrome
