Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - PPP

18/09/2023

Anya Plutynski distinguishes 4 ways in which aspects of mental illness may be said to be functional, & why functional talk is neither inconsistent with viewing disorders as dysfunctional nor inappropriately adaptationist.

Paper is open access for 2 weeks

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/899950

07/09/2023

Aleksandar Fatic suggests that the moral incompetence in narcissism is associated with a particular type of emotional incompetence and elucidates why narcissism is at the same time a moral failure and a psychopathology.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/899946

06/07/2023

Pablo Hubacher Haerle argues that a class of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder demonstrate an “excess of rationality,” suggesting that it’s unlikely that there’s one form of epistemic irrationality common to OCD.

It is a common assumption in psychiatry and psychotherapy that mental health conditions are marked out by some form of epistemic irrationality. With respect to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the mainstream view is that OCD causes irrational beliefs. Recently, however, this ‘doxastic view’ ...

17/06/2023

In an article for PPP, Robert Chapman argues that the theoretical commitments of contemporary critical psychiatry are not just untenable, they are also epistemically harmful.

The article & associated commentaries are open-access for 2 weeks!

The contemporary form of critical psychiatry and psychology focused on here follows Thomas Szasz in arguing that many of the concepts and practices of psychiatry are unscientific, value-laden, and epistemically violent. These claims are based on what I call the ‘comparativist’ critique, referred...

24/05/2023

“On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, two of its senior editors, Awais Aftab (Case Western) and Nancy Nyquist Potter (Louisville) survey developments in philosophy of psychiatry over the past three decades.”

How has philosophy of psychiatry developed over the past few decades, and what questions and subjects currently captivate researchers in this interdisciplinary area? On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, two of its senior editors, Awais Aftab....

04/04/2023

To celebrate Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology's 30th anniversary, editors were invited to write brief essays about PPP's past, present, and/or future. The resulting editorials provide a snapshot of contemporary concerns that animate the academic philosophy of psychiatry community in its interface with healthcare and society.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary issue of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (PPP), John Sadler (Editor in Chief) invited the senior editors and K.W.M. “Bill” Fulford (Founding Editor and Chair of the Advisory Board) to write brief essays on the past, present, and/or future of...

22/03/2023

In our March 2023 issue, Alastair Morgan offers an extended critique of the philosophical foundations of the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF), focusing on how PTMF tackles illness, meaning, & power.

*open access for 14 days*

In this paper, I offer a philosophical critique of the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF). This framework was launched in the UK in January 2018 as a non-pathologizing way of understanding mental distress. It argues that those experiences diagnosed as mental illnesses are better understood as mea...

18/03/2023

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24/02/2023

Drawing upon the work of Frantz Fanon, this article by Emily Walsh in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - PPP illustrates the ways in which colonialism continues to be involved in the imaginative reconstructive memory process & explores what consequences this has for psychiatry:

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/878245

26/01/2023

Commentary - On the Limits of Diversity

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/878251

26/01/2023

Commentary - Can The Psychopathologized Speak?: Notes on Social Objectivity and Psychiatric Science

In "Exclusion of Psychopathologized Standpoints Due to Hermeneutical Ignorance Undermines Psychiatric Objectivity" (2022), Bennett Knox offers a compelling argument that failure of psychiatric community to engage with the "psychopathologized" in processes such as the revision of the Diagnostic and S...

24/01/2023

The revision of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is sometimes derided as more a matter of canonizing consensus among powerful psychiatrists than an objective scientific search for truth. This type of criticism raises a series of questions. What would it take for the DSM re...

23/12/2022

Sahanika Ratnayake discusses her philosophical critique of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) -- outlined in her paper in the June 2022 issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology -- on JHU Press podcast. Listen to the discussion:

Our guest today is Dr Sahanika Ratnayake - a philosopher of psychiatry and medicine, whose work focuses on talking therapy. She is interested in what constitutes evidence for talking therapy, the ethics of therapy and the integration of therapy into healthcare systems. She is currently a researcher....

23/12/2022

New on the podcast: We speak with Sahanika Ratnayake on her recent Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - PPP paper that calls into question the ethical grounds of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Listen now: https://bit.ly/3WjAVkz

23/12/2022

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22/11/2022

"Semantic Vagueness in Psychiatric Nosology" by Nicholas Tilmes in the Sep 2022 issue of PPP is free to access for the next 30 days:

Many discussions in the philosophy of psychiatry hinge on, among other things, the concepts of disorders, the role of underlying mechanisms, and the merits of various diagnostic models. Yet, some such disputes rest on assumptions about vagueness in the sense of susceptibility to the Sorites paradox....

22/11/2022

Nicholas Tilmes talks on JHU Podcast about his article in ”Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology”

Our guest today is Nicholas Tilmes, whose research focuses on the intersection of cognition, law, and technology, ranging from disability rights to neurotechnology and AI. He holds an M.A. in Bioethics from NYU and a B.A. in Philosophy & Psychology from Cornell University. He joins us today to discu...

22/11/2022

New on the Hopkins Press Podcast: We talk with Nicholas Tilmes about his work in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - PPP on the fuzzy edges of psychiatric diagnosis. Listen now: https://bit.ly/3EPP1DV

04/08/2022

Blogpost by G. Scott Waterman for JHU Press introducing his article “Epistemic Humility: Accruing Wisdom or Forsaking Standards?” in PPP

“The question about which I counsel humility is: What counts as evidence that a treatment is worthwhile?”

04/08/2022

"It's Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis" by Sahanika Ratnayake in PPP

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of psychotherapy, associates mental illnesses such as depression, with patterns of distorted thoughts, referred to interchangeably as "cognitive distortions" or "negative automatic thoughts." CBT's theoretical account claims: first,...

18/04/2022

Breadcrumb Hopkins Press Journals Journals News Hopkins Press Journals The Latest What Journals are making news headlines? What scholarly research is being most viewed right now? Check out our recent press highlights and What's Up: this month's trending journal content. Journals in the News Narrativ...

18/04/2022

Can we draw a boundary that places some of our moods, experiences, beliefs, and behaviours within the remit of mental disorder and so within the province of psychiatric care? Can we assert that this person’s sadness is no longer continuous with everyday sadness and has crossed over into a clinical...

08/04/2022

Most people would never question what makes a thought theirs. Nothing seems to signal ‘madness’ such as schizophrenia more than the claims that one’s thoughts and actions are not one’s own. In a sense, individuals with schizophrenia suffer from a kind of disbelief, namely the disbelief towar...

08/04/2022

Narrative therapy is a technique that asks you to create a narrative around your life and struggles in order to externalize them, a therapist explains.

23/03/2022

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A 2005 fMRI study on couples in love found that romantic love is a motivation system that's similar to what we experience during addiction.

23/01/2022

Miriam Solomon proposes in PPP that the concept of "psychological injury" - a normal response akin to physical injury that calls for clinical attention - should be included within the broader concept of psychiatric disorder. (Dec 2021)

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/842574

There is still a good deal of disagreement about which conditions should be viewed as psychiatric disorders. In the third and fourth editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the "bereavement exclusion" distinguished symptoms of non-disordered grief from major depressive...

09/01/2022

Rashed proposes an approach to the boundary problem that moves away from the concern with defining mental disorder & towards understanding the limits of social recognition and its implications for mental health activism. - PPP, Dec 2021

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/842570

For several decades, philosophers of medicine and psychiatry sought to clarify the boundaries of illness by defining a scientific concept of disorder. This project, which has come to be known as naturalism, has met with considerable difficulties that cast doubt on its approach and presuppositions. T...

03/01/2022

After some delay, the December 2021 issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology is now available online on our website:

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47104

The issue focuses on themes pertaining to the concept of mental disorder and its boundaries.

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (PPP) focuses on the area of overlap among philosophy, psychiatry, and abnormal psychology. The journal advances philosophical inquiry in psychiatry and abnormal psychology while making clinical material and theory more accessible to philosophers. Each issue feat...

30/12/2021

PPP article featured by Mad in America

A critical review argues for embracing dynamic and complex relations theories in person-centered mental health treatment.

10/11/2021

Brian Earp et al.’s paper “Addicted to Love: What Is Love Addiction and When Should It Be Treated?” in PPP is now open-access for 30 days so that listeners of the podcast, as well as others interested, can access the research referenced!

muse.jhu.edu/article/652207

Can love be an addiction? If you can't kick a heartbreaking habit cold turkey, can science help? Now on the JHU Press podcast: an interview with Dr. Brian Earp on his research in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - PPP about addictive love, and its potential cures: https://bit.ly/3qjdrPr

07/11/2021

Sofia Jeppsson responds to the two commentaries on her article in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806106

In his interesting comments on my article, Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed distinguishes between different senses in which one can try to render psychosis “intelligible.” One might try to explain what the psychotic worldview looks like from the inside and what it is like to go through this kind of ex...

07/11/2021

Rashed argues that if we define intelligibility following Jeppsson, then the central question on psychosis and intelligibility is to rendered intelligible the psychotic worldview itself, and not simply a meta-account, or theory, of psychosis

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806105

The challenge of understanding psychotic phenomena is one of the enduring problems in the philosophy of psychiatry. The first to formulate the problem in its philosophical dimension was Karl Jaspers in General Psycho-pathology (first edition, 1913). Jasper’s solution was rather pessimistic, for he...

07/11/2021

In this commentary in PPP on Jeppsson's article, Jeanette Kennett focuses on why the assumption of hypothetical intelligibility is a duty of respect owed to those experiencing psychosis

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806104

In her wonderfully rich and insightful article, Sofia Jeppsson (2021) argues that, although a person with psychosis may seem to be strange and unintelligible to us, we nevertheless have duties of intelligibility toward them. And she draws upon her own experience to show that psychotic experiences an...

07/11/2021

Psychosis and Intelligibility
Sofia Jeppsson in the Sep 2021 issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

Jeppsson argues that we have a duty to see other people, including individuals experiencing psychosis, as intelligible, as far as possible.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806103

When interacting with other people, we assume that they have their reasons for what they do and believe, and experience recognizable feelings and emotions. When people act from weakness of will or are otherwise irrational, what they do can still be comprehensible to us, since we know what it is like...

13/10/2021

Kristopher Nielsen's response to commentaries by Richard Gipps and Sanneke de Haan in the September issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

muse.jhu.edu/article/806098

First, i would like to thank Drs. Gipps and de Haan for taking the time to formulate their commentaries; it is an honor to hear your perspectives on my work. Gipps presents a series of questions concerning my perspective, and seems interested in my view of rationality-based concepts. De Haan questio...

13/10/2021

"I think that the differences between our positions run much deeper, so that they are, in fact, incompatible. These differences result from fundamentally opposed views on what it means to be human."

De Haan's commentary on Nielsen's article in PPP

muse.jhu.edu/article/806097

The relevance and potential value of insights from enactivism for the field of psychiatry have been recognized for some time now. Recently, two overarching frameworks have been proposed, one by Nielsen (Nielsen, 2020; Nielsen & Ward, 2018, 2020), and one by me (De Haan 2017; 2020a; 2020b; 2020c).1 A...

30/04/2021

"Anorexia: That Body I Am-With"

by Drew Leder
in March 2021 issue of PPP
Commentary on Lucy Osler's article in the same issue



https://muse.jhu.edu/article/785891

Lucy Osler's piece, "Controlling the noise: A phenomenological account of Anorexia Nervosa and the threatening body," lays out an important new interpretation of anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa is no longer viewed as primarily a perceptual distortion of body-image, an obsession with thinness, or an attem...