Dominic Murphy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3873238 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dominic Murphy |
| NOMBRES | Dominic |
| APELLIDO | Murphy |
| FIRMA | MURPHY D |
| AFILIACIONES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9530-2743 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Reframing culture in youth mental health
Military adverse childhood experiences
Smartphone app-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for post-traumatic stress disorder and gambling harm in veterans
Gambling harm and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to be prevalent among veterans. Globally, help-seeking rates for gambling are low, and veterans may experience obstacles in accessing mental health support due to stigma. Digital health interventions may increase treatment uptake and improve outcomes for veterans. Here, we report findings from a pilot feasibility study of a novel smartphone application-based intervention, “ACT Vet”, b…
Association of potential morally injurious events, moral injury and somatic symptoms of health in UK military veterans
Moral injury can follow exposure to three types of potentially morally injurious event (PMIE). Both PMIE exposure and moral injury are associated with poor health and functioning outcomes. Moral injury, somatic symptoms and other impaired mental health and functioning outcomes are frequently observed as co-occurring in treatment-seeking military veterans. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the associations between moral injury, somatic s…
Secondary traumatic stress in household members of healthcare workers in the UK
This is the first study which has examined secondary traumatic stress amongst household members of HCWs. While trying to support the HCW, household members were at high risk of developing secondary traumatic stress. There are research implications to understand HCWs' and their household members' experiences better, including extending current research and conducting further research exploring secondary traumatic stress in HCWs' household members,…
Exploring OCD severity in treatment-seeking veterans
The recent International Classifications of Diseases-11 (ICD-11) distinction of complex- post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has highlighted a research gap in exploring how C-PTSD may relate to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) differently than PTSD. Mental health disorders and comorbidities appear to be greater in military veterans compared to the general population. Thus, this study aimed to exp…
A Hidden Community”
Women veterans are often underserved in both the research into and provision of mental health treatment. This study explored women veterans’ experiences of mental health difficulties, help-seeking, and treatment provision. Semistructured telephone interviews with 19 U.K. women veterans who met criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder were conducted and Reflexive Thematic Analysis was used in analysis. Three superordinate themes encompassing par…
Experiences and impact of moral injury in human trafficking survivors
This study provides some of the first evidence that human trafficking survivors may be vulnerable to moral injury and indicates the impact that exposure to PMIEs can have on functioning. Future work is needed to ensure that statutory organisations consider the potential for causing moral injury when interacting with human trafficking survivors and clinical care teams are equipped to provide tailored guidance and support
Complex PTSD symptom clusters and executive function in UK Armed Forces veterans
This is the first study to explore the relationship between executive function and CPTSD symptom clusters. The study builds on previous findings and suggests that executive function could be relevant to CPTSD treatment trajectories, as is the case with PTSD alone. Future research should further explore such clinical implications
Moral injury appraisals and complex PTSD in refugees
Findings highlight the role of moral injury appraisals in exacerbating traditional PTSD symptoms, as well as the broader symptoms characteristic of CPTSD. Further, results indicate that specific types of moral injury appraisals (relating to one's own and others' perceived moral transgressions) may lead to differential psychological reactions, raising important implications for clinical practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights …
Interpretations of ambiguous situations in combat veterans with and without post‐traumatic stress disorder
Deployed combat personnel are at increased risk of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). People with PTSD often judge ambiguous information as negative or threatening (interpretation bias). However, this may be adaptive during deployment. The current study aimed to investigate the extent to which interpretation bias in combat personnel is associated with PTSD symptoms, rather than with appropriate situational awareness. Combat veterans with and …
Exposure to potentially morally injurious events in U.K. health and social care workers during Covid-19
Exposure to PIMEs could be important for PTSD and CPTSD development. Interventions for moral injury in HSCWs should be investigated. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Associations between International Trauma Questionnaire complex posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters and moral injury in a sample of U.K. treatment-seeking veterans
The two networks suggest a key role of disturbance in self-organization symptoms in the presentation of CPTSD and its association with moral injury among treatment-seeking veterans. Despite the limitations of the present study, it offers an insightful starting point as the first network analysis study of CPTSD in treatment-seeking veterans as well as its association with moral injury. Implications in terms of points of intervention and further re…
LGB Female Veterans’ Experience of Military Service During the “Gay Ban”
Introduction Until 2000, the UK Armed Forces implemented a “gay ban” that led to the investigation and discharge of thousands of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) veterans. Yet, the experiences of those who served during the ban remain unknown. According to the minority stress model, individuals may face specific stressors related to both their gender and sexual minority status. Thus, the present study investigated the military experiences of fema…
A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
The experience of post-traumatic stress has been implicated in adverse outcomes for trauma-exposed parents and their children. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how ex-military service (veteran) fathers who had received a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience and make sense of parenthood, their role as a father, and the parent-child relationship. Ten ex-military fathers from the UK who had been diagnosed wit…
Understanding the Mental Health Needs of a Community-Sample of UK Women Veterans
Women are often underrepresented or entirely missing from veteran research, and there remains limited understanding of their mental health needs. The present study investigated the mental health needs of a community sample of UK women veterans. A total of 750/1680 (44.6%) participants completed an online survey. Data was collected on sociodemographic and military factors, mental health and wellbeing, and childhood adversity. Findings revealed a h…
Exploring Barriers to Mental Health Treatment in the Female Veteran Population
Although female veterans are a growing population, there remains limited research on their unique experiences specifically within the United Kingdom (UK). The limited data available indicates that female veterans are at increased risk of developing mental health disorders following their discharge from the military. However, female veterans make up a small proportion of those seeking mental health treatment. This study is the first qualitative st…
Factors Influencing the Salience of Military/Veteran Identity Post Discharge
Military/veteran identity is defined as the prominence of past military service, beliefs, and norms on an individual’s post-military sense of self. The salience of this identity has been suggested to be a significant factor in how successful individuals transition to civilian life. However, the current body of research on what factors affect this identity is disparate. The aim of this scoping review was to evaluate the current research on the fac…
Exploring the health and well-being of a national sample of U.K. treatment-seeking veterans
Comorbidity appeared to be the norm rather than the exception within treatment-seeking veterans. As such, it seems important for veteran mental health services to take a holistic approach when supporting veterans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury
Potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) entail acts of commission (e.g., cruelty, proscribed or prescribed violence) or omission (e.g., high stakes failure to protect others) and bearing witness (e.g., to grave inhumanity, to the gruesome aftermath of violence), or being the victim of others' acts of commission (e.g., high stakes trust violations) or omission (e.g., being the victim of grave individual or systemic failures to protect) that t…
The Relationship between of Moral Injury and Radicalisation
Moral injury and the need to carry out ethically responsible research
The need for research to advance scientific understanding must be balanced with ensuring the rights and wellbeing of participants are safeguarded, with some research topics posing more ethical quandaries for researchers than others. Moral injury is one such topic. Exposure to potentially morally injurious experiences can lead to significant distress, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and selfinjury. In this article, we …
The impact of moral injury on the wellbeing of UK military veterans
The results provide preliminary evidence that potentially morally injurious experiences are associated with adverse mental health outcomes in UK AF veterans. Further work is needed to better understand the interplay between morally injurious events and threat-based trauma in order to design effective pathways for prevention and intervention for people exposed to highly challenging events
Moral injury and ICD-11 complex PTSD (CPTSD) symptoms among treatment-seeking veterans in the United Kingdom
Overall, the two sets of findings suggest the special relevance of MI among veterans who are struggling with CPTSD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Covid-19 and experiences of moral injury in front-line key workers
The COVID-19 virus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the WHO on 12 March 2020. Whilst the infection mortality rate is not fully understood, it appears to be considerably higher than that of other recent pandemics (e.g. H1N1 pandemic, mortality rate 0.02%) [1]. Furthermore, several groups of people, such as the elderly and those with some pre-existing medical conditions, appear to be particularly vulnerable to the disease [1,2]. International ev…
Understanding the Mental Health Needs of a Community-Sample of UK Women Veterans
Women are often underrepresented or entirely missing from veteran research, and there remains limited understanding of their mental health needs. The present study investigated the mental health needs of a community sample of UK women veterans. A total of 750/1680 (44.6%) participants completed an online survey. Data was collected on sociodemographic and military factors, mental health and wellbeing, and childhood adversity. Findings revealed a h…
Explanation in Psychiatry
Philosophy of psychiatry has boomed in the last few years. We are now seeing a growing literature on the nature of psychiatric explanation, including work that makes contact with longstanding disputes in the philosophy of science as well as more specific work on mental disorders. This paper looks at some recent work on both representing and explaining mental illness. An emerging picture sees explanation of mental disorder as first constructing ca…
Hacking’s Reconciliation
In a series of recent works, Ian Hacking has produced a model of social causation in mental illness and begun to sketch in outline how this might be integrated with the medical model of psychiatry. This article elaborates and revises Hacking’s model of social forces, criticizes him for attempting a merely semantic resolution of the tension between the social and the biological, and sketches an alternative approach that builds upon his substantial…
A Hidden Community”
Women veterans are often underserved in both the research into and provision of mental health treatment. This study explored women veterans’ experiences of mental health difficulties, help-seeking, and treatment provision. Semistructured telephone interviews with 19 U.K. women veterans who met criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder were conducted and Reflexive Thematic Analysis was used in analysis. Three superordinate themes encompassing par…
Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Media Personnel Assigned to the Iraq War (2003)
This paper investigates occupational stressors amongst media personnel assigned to work on covering the Iraq War via interviews with 54 journalists from the BBC and Reuters, who worked in Iraq between February and April 2003. A range of stressors were identified that could be categorized into three main themes, control over the situation, support from management and grief from the death of colleagues. Journalists not embedded with military units …
Eliminating emotions
Evolution and the Human Mind
List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain 2. Massively modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture Richard Samuels 3. Individual differences in early understanding of mind: genes, non-shared environment and modularity Claire Hughes and Robert Plomin 4. Darwin in the madhouse: evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders Dominic Murphy and Stephen Stich 5. Evolu…
Folk psychology meets the frame problem
Hacking’s Reconciliation
In a series of recent works, Ian Hacking has produced a model of social causation in mental illness and begun to sketch in outline how this might be integrated with the medical model of psychiatry. This article elaborates and revises Hacking’s model of social forces, criticizes him for attempting a merely semantic resolution of the tension between the social and the biological, and sketches an alternative approach that builds upon his substantial…
Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences. In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone is said to have a mental illness, what about it is m…
Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Media Personnel Assigned to the Iraq War (2003)
This paper investigates occupational stressors amongst media personnel assigned to work on covering the Iraq War via interviews with 54 journalists from the BBC and Reuters, who worked in Iraq between February and April 2003. A range of stressors were identified that could be categorized into three main themes, control over the situation, support from management and grief from the death of colleagues. Journalists not embedded with military units …
Stich And His Critics
Stich and His Critics
Relaxing into Psychiatry
Stich and His Critics
Introduction: Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology) and Michael Bishop (Florida State University). 1. Is There a Role for Representational Content in Scientific Psychology?: Frances Egan (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). 2. Representationalism Reconsidered: Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard University). 3. On Determining What There Isn't: Michael Devitt (City University of New York). 4. Eliminativism and The Theory of Refere…
A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Perceptions of the Media by Members of the British Forces during the Iraq War
Little is known about service personnel’s perceptions of the media’s coverage of war and its impact on the personnel and their families. Using data collected from a major cohort study of the British Armed Forces, this article examines perceptions of the coverage of the Iraq War among British personnel deployed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Operation Telic 1). It draws on the theories of media’s effects and gauges whether hostile media effect …
Explanation in Psychiatry
Philosophy of psychiatry has boomed in the last few years. We are now seeing a growing literature on the nature of psychiatric explanation, including work that makes contact with longstanding disputes in the philosophy of science as well as more specific work on mental disorders. This paper looks at some recent work on both representing and explaining mental illness. An emerging picture sees explanation of mental disorder as first constructing ca…
Childhood adversity and mental health in veterans seeking treatment for mental health difficulties
Veterans who are seeking help for mental health difficulties report experiencing a high amount of adversity in childhood, suggesting they are more likely to present with complex mental health profiles. Clinicians working with veterans would benefit from assessment for childhood adversity in formulating mental health difficulties in this population. The Armed Forces and those involved in postdeployment health care have a duty to continue to provid…
Covid-19 and experiences of moral injury in front-line key workers
The COVID-19 virus outbreak was declared a pandemic by the WHO on 12 March 2020. Whilst the infection mortality rate is not fully understood, it appears to be considerably higher than that of other recent pandemics (e.g. H1N1 pandemic, mortality rate 0.02%) [1]. Furthermore, several groups of people, such as the elderly and those with some pre-existing medical conditions, appear to be particularly vulnerable to the disease [1,2]. International ev…
Exploring the Facilitation of Successfully Completing Treatment within a Residential Setting with Veterans Diagnosed with PTSD
Research has found that treatment programmes for veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have high rates of drop-out and are often not as effective as in other populations. Previous findings suggested that group cohesion during treatment significantly predicted outcomes for the military personnel receiving treatment. This research intends to assess what facilitates a veteran with PTSD to successfully complete a residential treatment p…
Moral injury and the need to carry out ethically responsible research
The need for research to advance scientific understanding must be balanced with ensuring the rights and wellbeing of participants are safeguarded, with some research topics posing more ethical quandaries for researchers than others. Moral injury is one such topic. Exposure to potentially morally injurious experiences can lead to significant distress, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and selfinjury. In this article, we …
The impact of moral injury on the wellbeing of UK military veterans
The results provide preliminary evidence that potentially morally injurious experiences are associated with adverse mental health outcomes in UK AF veterans. Further work is needed to better understand the interplay between morally injurious events and threat-based trauma in order to design effective pathways for prevention and intervention for people exposed to highly challenging events
Moral injury and ICD-11 complex PTSD (CPTSD) symptoms among treatment-seeking veterans in the United Kingdom
Overall, the two sets of findings suggest the special relevance of MI among veterans who are struggling with CPTSD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Exploring Barriers to Mental Health Treatment in the Female Veteran Population
Although female veterans are a growing population, there remains limited research on their unique experiences specifically within the United Kingdom (UK). The limited data available indicates that female veterans are at increased risk of developing mental health disorders following their discharge from the military. However, female veterans make up a small proportion of those seeking mental health treatment. This study is the first qualitative st…
Factors Influencing the Salience of Military/Veteran Identity Post Discharge
Military/veteran identity is defined as the prominence of past military service, beliefs, and norms on an individual’s post-military sense of self. The salience of this identity has been suggested to be a significant factor in how successful individuals transition to civilian life. However, the current body of research on what factors affect this identity is disparate. The aim of this scoping review was to evaluate the current research on the fac…
Exploring the health and well-being of a national sample of U.K. treatment-seeking veterans
Comorbidity appeared to be the norm rather than the exception within treatment-seeking veterans. As such, it seems important for veteran mental health services to take a holistic approach when supporting veterans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury
Potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) entail acts of commission (e.g., cruelty, proscribed or prescribed violence) or omission (e.g., high stakes failure to protect others) and bearing witness (e.g., to grave inhumanity, to the gruesome aftermath of violence), or being the victim of others' acts of commission (e.g., high stakes trust violations) or omission (e.g., being the victim of grave individual or systemic failures to protect) that t…
The Relationship between of Moral Injury and Radicalisation
Interpretations of ambiguous situations in combat veterans with and without post‐traumatic stress disorder
Deployed combat personnel are at increased risk of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). People with PTSD often judge ambiguous information as negative or threatening (interpretation bias). However, this may be adaptive during deployment. The current study aimed to investigate the extent to which interpretation bias in combat personnel is associated with PTSD symptoms, rather than with appropriate situational awareness. Combat veterans with and …
Exposure to potentially morally injurious events in U.K. health and social care workers during Covid-19
Exposure to PIMEs could be important for PTSD and CPTSD development. Interventions for moral injury in HSCWs should be investigated. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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