Philosophy of Psychopathology

Neuroscience, continua, and the prodromal phase of psychosis

by Matthew Broome

Co-authored with Jennifer Dale, Charlotte Marriott, Cristina Merino, and Lisa Bortolotti. In Vulnerability to Psychosis: From Neurosciences to Psychopathology. Eds Fusar-Poli, Borgwardt, McGuire Psychology Press 2012

Engaged epistemology: the limits of understanding in philosophy and psychiatry

by Andrzej Kapusta

Conference Proceedings,  [in:] Bartošová, E. (et al.), Psychologický ústav Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, Brno 2011, s. 120-123

The concept of engaged epistemology reveals some limitations of contemporary cognitive theories of delusion. By... more The concept of engaged epistemology reveals some limitations of contemporary cognitive theories of delusion. By exposing the role of implicit dispositions and abilities in formation of mental disorders I explicate the thesis that emergence of delusions is accompanied by a very radical change in the structure of our experience. Such radical alteration of the Background -  nonrepresentational, non–rule-governed, dispositional structure of everyday understanding that strengthens our perception and reasoning - is crucial for the development of mental disorder. The concept of engaged epistemology was introduced to the philosophy of psychiatry by Richard GT Gipps and Bill Fulford (2004). The project appears to be consistent with the analysis of such notable philosophers as Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and contemporary researches: Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor. Moreover, the elements of this theoretical approach are similar to the concept of embodied mind, developed in current cognitive sciences.
Keywords:
epistemology, philosophy of psychiatry, understanding, delusions, hermeneu

Understanding human distress: Moving beyond the concept of ‘psychopathology’

by Martin Milton

Milton, M., Craven, M. and Coyle, A. (2010) Understanding human distress: Moving beyond the concept of ‘psychopathology’, in M. Milton (Ed) Therapy and beyond: Counselling psychology contributions to therapeutic and social issues, Wiley Blackwell: Chichester

Problems With the DSM Approach to Classifying Psychopathology

by Barbara Von Eckardt

The delicate scientist practitioner

by Nick Drury

On What There Really Is to Our Notion of Ownership of a Thought. A Reply to John Campbell

by Annalisa Coliva

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 2002, 9, pp. 41-46.

Thought insertion and immunity to error through misidentification

by Annalisa Coliva

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 2002, 9, pp. 27-34.

Pacientes, síntomas, trastornos, organicidad y psicopatología

by Esteban Ezama Coto

Palabras impertinentes. Contra el concepto de enfermedad mental

by Esteban Ezama Coto

Anthropological and Social Consequences of Psychopharmacology Development

by Andrzej Kapusta

Second World Congress of Philosophy of Medicine, Cracow 2000

The problems and dilemmas presented by mental health care are innumerable, but I will present only the principal... more The problems and dilemmas presented by mental health care are innumerable, but I will present only the principal ones:

(1) How to interpret the triumph of the biological psychiatry which investigates possible pathophysical grounds to mental disorder? Is psychiatry simply a specialty within medicine, on a par with cardiology, orthopedics and gynecology? What are the limits of biological psychiatry? The question is whether psychiatry became a discipline based on biology? Is mental disease just a brain disease? Consequently, the proper way of relieving these peculiar symptoms is to correct the underlying disturbance of brain function using physical treatments such as medication.

(2) Is it acceptable to make any considerable integration among psychosocial and biomedical interventions? Does the diversity of patient-sufferers along with psychiatry’s present epistemological status argue for a thoughtful therapeutic eclecticism or therapeutic pluralism – refinement methods and medicines? An eclectic psychiatrist tries to fit whatever seems likely to work for the patient. It is a moderate type of psychiatry deliberately avoiding more extreme wings of various schools. We have to choose between grasping the ideas of all the schools to “homogenize complexities” and mastering the diversity or discovering when to employ what methods.

(3) What is the role of psychopharmacology in psychiatry development? How does the new research extend to the way we experience ourselves and others? What was the influence of “cosmetic psychopharmacology” on the popular culture? Did the pharmaceutical revolution change the face of madness?

Can Mental Illness be Naturalised?

by Andrzej Kapusta

M. Miłkowski, K. Talmont-Kamiński (eds.) Beyond Description: Normativity In Naturalised Philosophy, College Publications, London 2010.

A role for ownership and authorship in the analysis of thought insertion

by Matthew Broome

The Rationality of Psychosis and Understanding the Deluded

by Matthew Broome

Existential Phenomenology, Psychiatric Illness and the Death of Possibilities

by Matthew Broome

Due to come out in Cambridge Companion to Existentialism, ed. Crowell

The Problem of Defining Psychopathology and Challenges To Evolutionary Psychology Theory

by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair

In Buss & Hawley (Eds). (2010). The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bias and Schizophrenia

by Jeff Poland

In Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis (Caplan and Cosgrove eds.), Jason Aaronson 2004

The Deep Structure of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis

by Jeff Poland

In Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis (Caplan and Cosgrove eds.), Jason Aaronson 2004; co-authored with Paula Caplan

How to Move Beyond the Concept of Schizophrenia

by Jeff Poland

In The Philosophical Understanding of Schizophrenia (Chung, Fulford, Graham eds); Oxford University Press 2007

Steps Toward a Schizophrenia-Free World

by Jeff Poland

Philosophique 2006

Problems with the DSM Approach to Classifying Psychopathology

by Jeff Poland

In Philosophical Psychopathology (Graham & Stephens, eds.), The MIT Press 1994; co-authored with Barbara Von Eckardt and Will Spaulding