Self and mental disorder

Lessons for psychiatry from naturalistic philosophy

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ID4079363
AutoresSerdar Tekin (0000-0001-8523-0435, The University of Texas at San Antonio, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen16
Número1
Fecha de publicación2021-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12715
OpenAlexW3096678012
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas57

The question "What is the relationship between the self and mental disorder?" is especially important for mental health professionals interested in understanding and treating patients, as most mental disorders are intimately tied to self-related concerns, such as loss of self-esteem and self-control, or diminished agency and autonomy. Philosophy, along with the cognitive and behavioral sciences, offers a wealth of conceptual and empirical resources to answer this question, as the concepts of the self and psychopathology have occupied a central place in these fields since their inception. Interestingly, and unfortunately, however, scientific psychiatry, in its approach to mental disorder as primarily a cluster of signs and symptoms has been slow in acknowledging the advances in conceptualizing and investigating mental disorders in relation to the self. The article addresses this problem and offers solutions for better cross-fertilization between empirical and philosophical inquiry into the self and psychiatric research on mental disorders. The first part evaluates what empirically informed philosophical inquiry and philosophically informed empirical inquiry offer to the examination of the relationship between the self and mental disorders. The second part argues that scientific psychiatry has missed opportunities to find effective treatments for mental disorders because of its insularity from debates in naturalistic philosophy and cognitive and behavioral sciences. Psychiatry has much to gain from the conceptual, scientific, and clinical resourcefulness of philosophy's collaboration with the cognitive and behavioral sciences

Autonomy · Cognition · Empirical research · Epistemology · Mental health · Naturalism · Philosophy of science · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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