philosophy of psychiatry – A New Vision for Mental Health

What is formulation in psychiatry?

Author: Editorial 12th May 2023 0 Comments

“When assessing the same patient, two experts may produce two similar summaries, but two different formulations. This is the fundamental difference: a summary is descriptive, whereas a formulation is analytical and evaluative… formulating a case with clarity and precision is…
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biopsychosocial model, diagnostic hierarchy, formulation, Gareth Owen, holism, philosophy of psychiatry, psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, verstehen

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

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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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 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

Conceptual Competence in Psychiatry: Recommendations for Education and Training

Author: Editorial 30th March 2022 0 Comments

This paper by Awais Aftab and G. Scott Waterman has been published in Academic Psychiatry. It begins: “It has been recognized since the early days of modern psychiatry that conceptual and philosophical questions are intimately tied to more practical and clinical…
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academic psychiatry, Awais Aftab, G. Scott Waterman, philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry, psychiatry

Madness and the demand for recognition

Author: Editorial 23rd May 2019 0 Comments

Subtitled “A philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activism”, this book has been written by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed. The publishers say: “Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is…
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books, Clients & Patients, disability studies, identity, Mad activism, Mad Studies, Mohammed Rashed, philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry