Event: Personality Disorders: Understanding Strange People | Online Event |
Speaker: Dr Leslie Lim
Date: 18 APR Thu
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm *GMT +8hrs
Venue: ALBY Events via online ZOOM Video
Fee: $11/-
Ever wonder why your colleague or family member is so strange? He or she cannot stay long at a job, has difficulty relating to people, and seems a misfit in society. Many refuse to work despite attaining suitable qualifications. Many attempt self -harm and often talk of the meaninglessness of life. Indeed, a high proportion end their lives through suicide.
The most likely diagnosis is that such persons are suffering from some form of Personality Disorder.
The subject of Personality Disorder is one of the least understood in Psychiatry. Persons with this condition cause much suffering to themselves and to others by their dysfunctional traits. Although there is no proven treatment that works, we must never dismiss the role of spiritual methods which offer hope, provided these individuals are desperate enough to want to be helped.
Unique features of Personality Disorder and an overview of their causes, and treatments will be provided. The talk will provide an understanding of these disorders from a clinical and biblical perspective.
About the Speaker
Associate Professor Leslie Lim has been a practising psychiatrist with over 30 years’ experience in the public sector.
He is a Clinical Associate Professor and an Adjunct Associate Professor with two medical schools in Singapore.
As a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, he specialises in the management of mood and anxiety disorders. He graduated from TCA College with a Master of Arts in Ministry, and has authored 5 books, viz. Mental Illness or Demonisation? Similarities and Differences; Freedom from Fear; Depression: the Misunderstood Illness; Confronting Your Anxiety: a Biblical Response to Overcoming Fear and Worry; and the new release Victorious Living in a Depressed World: Biblical perspectives for overcoming depression.