Michael J Flexer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1630609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Flexer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Flexer |
| SIGNATURE | FLEXER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter, Exeter, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0616-4888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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Forrester’s proposed seventh style of reasoning – thinking in cases – functions as an analogous, dyadic relationship that, whilst indebted philosophically to the logical reasoning and semiotics of Charles Peirce, is prone to creating feedback loops between induction and deduction, precluding novel abductive hypotheses from advancing medical knowledge. Reasoning with a Peircean triadic model opens up the contexts and methods of meaning-making and …
The 'telegraphic schizophrenic manner
This paper reads Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time as stories of deictic temporal crises. It critically examines the texts, exploring their representations of mental time travel (MTT), and places them into dialectic with health sciences research on autonoesis and episodic memory deficits in people with lived experience of mental health disorders, particularly psychosis or 'schizophrenia'. The paper uses this di…
Introduction
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record
[L]abels of Themselves Condition Our Perceptions”
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) has been partitioning mental illnesses into discrete disease entities for over 60 years. The diagnostic class of schizophrenia has undergone several different labels and some profound changes to its criteria over all these iterations. In trying to develop the least‐imperfect pragmatic description, the DSM has had to make several assumptions about …
Introduction
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record
[L]abels of Themselves Condition Our Perceptions”
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) has been partitioning mental illnesses into discrete disease entities for over 60 years. The diagnostic class of schizophrenia has undergone several different labels and some profound changes to its criteria over all these iterations. In trying to develop the least‐imperfect pragmatic description, the DSM has had to make several assumptions about …
If p 0 , then 1
Forrester’s proposed seventh style of reasoning – thinking in cases – functions as an analogous, dyadic relationship that, whilst indebted philosophically to the logical reasoning and semiotics of Charles Peirce, is prone to creating feedback loops between induction and deduction, precluding novel abductive hypotheses from advancing medical knowledge. Reasoning with a Peircean triadic model opens up the contexts and methods of meaning-making and …
The 'telegraphic schizophrenic manner
This paper reads Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time as stories of deictic temporal crises. It critically examines the texts, exploring their representations of mental time travel (MTT), and places them into dialectic with health sciences research on autonoesis and episodic memory deficits in people with lived experience of mental health disorders, particularly psychosis or 'schizophrenia'. The paper uses this di…
Introduction
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record
Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychosis (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works)