philosophy – A New Vision for Mental Health

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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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

Madness: A Philosophical Exploration

Author: Editorial 14th October 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Justin Garson. The publishers say: “Reframes philosophical debates about the nature of mental disorderOffers an innovative reading of the history of madnessDevelops alternative paradigm for thinking about what it means to be mad” “Since the…
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books, Culture & Society, history of madness, Justin Garson, madness, philosophy

On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind

Author: Editorial 10th October 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Richard G.T. Gipps. The publishers say: “Can we reach the psychotic subject in their delusion? Psychopathological theorists often try to find a way to characterise this subject’s inner predicament so that their opaque utterances and actions will…
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books, delusions, madness, philosophy, psychiatry, psychopathology, psychosis, rationality, Richard Gipps

The Universe, Life and Everything…: Dialogues on our changing understanding of reality

Author: Editorial 30th September 2022 0 Comments

Co-written by Sarah Durston and Ton Baggerman (with other contributors), this book has relevance to the creation of a well-being society and some of the changes in cultural values and perspectives that are needed for this. The publishers say: “Our current…
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consciousness, Culture & Society, Descartes, Isaac Newton, meaning-making, neuroscience, philosophy, Sarah Durston, scientism, Ton Baggerman

A Profession Without Reason

Author: Editorial 9th August 2022 0 Comments

“Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.”Dr. Thomas Insel (former director of the National Institute of Mental Health) This book is by psychologist Bruce E. Levine. The publishers say: “There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the…
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books, Bruce E. Levine, Culture & Society, philosophy, psychiatry, reason, Spinoza

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

Author: Editorial 1st August 2022 0 Comments

This article by Sahanika Ratnayake has been published in the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology on the Project Muse website. The abstract says: “Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of psychotherapy, associates mental illnesses such as depression,…
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& Psychology, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, depressive realism, philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, psychiatry, Sahanika Ratnayake, underdetermination

The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist

Author: Editorial 8th July 2022 0 Comments

The themes of this video are relevant to how mainstream psychiatry – which dominates the current approach to mental ill-health and its treatment – has come to be shaped the way that it is. The video producers say: “In ‘The…
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consciousness, Culture & Society, Iain McGilchrist, neuroscience, philosophy, psychiatry, videos, wellbeing

The Divided Brain: Our brains are far more complex than a left/right split

Author: Editorial 23rd June 2022 0 Comments

This 11 minute video has been produced by Aeon Video. It concerns different ways in which we can look at and experience the world … ways that have profoundly shaped the kind of society and culture we live in, and…
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Culture & Society, Iain McGilchrist, neuroscience, philosophy, Royal Society of Arts, videos, wellbeing

Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

Author: Editorial 17th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by consultant psychiatrist Rosa Ritunnano has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “How can you best engage with a person who has psychosis, when their beliefs seem to differ radically from your own? What if those beliefs differ…
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Culture & Society, delusions, narrative identity, philosophy, Psyche, psychosis, Rosa Ritunnano

Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics

Author: Editorial 9th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Bernardo Kastrup. Carl Jung is a hugely important figure in the history of psychology, and in particular within the field of psychoanalysis in relation to the concept of the collective unconscious, Jungian archetypes, and…
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Bernardo Kastrup, books, Clients & Patients, Jung, metaphysics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology