Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

The Future Is Political and Transdisciplinary

Author: Editorial 3rd April 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Awais Aftab has been published in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology – the official journal of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP). It describes the journal’s aims and general content, and sets out the…
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collaborative practice

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Awais Aftab, lived experiences, madness, philosophy, philosophy of mental health, philosophy of psychiatry, Project MUSE, psychiatry, psychology

Can The Psychopathologized Speak?

Author: Editorial 23rd February 2023 0 Comments

This post from Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his blog-site Psychiatry at the Margins. It begins: “The latest issue of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology contains my commentary, ‘Can The Psychopathologized Speak?: Notes on Social Objectivity and Psychiatric Science.’…
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collaborative practice

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Awais Aftab, Bennett Knox, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, philosophy of psychiatry, psychiatry, Psychiatry at the Margins, psychopathology, social objectivity

It’s Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis

Author: Editorial 23rd January 2023 0 Comments

“I will challenge CBT’s understanding of mental illness and its therapeutic approach by evaluating the following interrelated claims made by CBT: 1) Individuals with mental illnesses have epistemic issues with their thoughts and that 2) CBT can rectify these epistemic…
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a coherent system

Aaron Beck, Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Epistemology, Sahanika Ratnayake, Talking Therapies