Serdar Tekin
Biographic Data
| ID | 325548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serdar Tekin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serdar |
| FAMILY NAME | Tekin |
| SIGNATURE | TEKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8523-0435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What the self does for psychiatry: Testimony, cognitive science, and participatory objectivity
Reclaiming The Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science argues that contemporary scientific psychiatry has sidelined its most essential object of study: the self. Drawing on first-person testimonies of individuals experiencing mental distress, alongside resources from cognitive and behavioral sciences, the book shows that disruptions to agency, narrative coherence, embodiment, relationality, and self-concept are no…
Exploring storytelling practices of pre-service teachers with young EFL learners in the Turkish primary context
There have been numerous theoretical recommendations for the use of age-appropriate pedagogical tools for young learners (YLs) such as storytelling. However, a practical challenge remains in understanding how novice teachers translate these recommendations into concrete scaffolding strategies in actual classrooms and how effective they are in engaging children with English. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study aimed to identify the scaffo…
A philosophical exploration of experience-based expertise in mental health care
The idea that (former) patients are experts who could contribute to mental health care practices is gaining traction. Experts-by-Experience are increasingly employed by institutions to contribute to various levels of care, organization and policy-making. However, the success of this movement is hindered by conceptual and epistemological ambiguities. Our goal in this paper is to turn to the rich philosophical literature to start addressing such am…
My Illness, My Self, and I: When self-narratives and illness-narratives clash
In a compelling and provocative paper, ‘Solving the Self-Illness Ambiguity: The Case for Construction Over Discovery,’ Sofia M.I. Jeppsson distinguishes two ways of addressing the self-illness ambiguty problem. The first is the Realist Solution, which postulates a pre-existing border between the self and the illness and frames the goal of treatment in psychiatry as helping the patient ‘discover’ this boundary. Addressing the shortcomings of the R…
Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry
This paper challenges the exclusion of patients from epistemic practices in psychiatry by examining the creation and revision processes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association that identifies the properties of mental disorders and thereby guides research, diagnosis, treatment, and various administrative tasks. It argues there are epistemic—rather than exclusiv…
The Dual State in Turkey
Exploring the post-2015 phase in Turkey’s autocratization process through a conceptual perspective based on Ernst Fraenkel’s The Dual State, this paper argues that Turkey’s political regime has evolved into a dual system of rule, characterized by the concurrent existence of a “normative state” that somehow observes its own laws and a “prerogative state” acting arbitrarily beyond the law. The paper begins with a selective survey of the recent work…
Is Big Data the New Stethoscope? Perils of Digital Phenotyping to Address Mental Illness
Self and mental disorder: Lessons for psychiatry from naturalistic philosophy
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 resourc…
Not with narratives, not without narratives: A review of “Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, etc.” Galen Strawson
In this short article I will review Galen Strawson’s most recent book, “Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, etc.“ As it is impossible to do justice to the full collection in a review, and as many readers will already have encountered his ideas elsewhere, I will focus on Strawson’s critical views on the narrative approaches to the self as these are revealed in several of the essays
Beyond mind–body dualism: Embracing pluralism in psychiatric research—introduction to the special issue, “Psychiatry and Its Philosophy”
The missing self in scientific psychiatry
Self-concept through the diagnostic looking glass: Narratives and mental disorder
This paper explores how the diagnosis of mental disorder may affect the diagnosed subject's self-concept by supplying an account that emphasizes the influence of autobiographical and social narratives on self-understanding. It focuses primarily on the diagnoses made according to the criteria provided by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and suggests that the DSM diagnosis may function as a source of narrative that affec…
Self-concept through the diagnostic looking glass: Narratives and mental disorder
This paper explores how the diagnosis of mental disorder may affect the diagnosed subject's self-concept by supplying an account that emphasizes the influence of autobiographical and social narratives on self-understanding. It focuses primarily on the diagnoses made according to the criteria provided by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and suggests that the DSM diagnosis may function as a source of narrative that affec…
Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry
This paper challenges the exclusion of patients from epistemic practices in psychiatry by examining the creation and revision processes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association that identifies the properties of mental disorders and thereby guides research, diagnosis, treatment, and various administrative tasks. It argues there are epistemic—rather than exclusiv…
Self and mental disorder: Lessons for psychiatry from naturalistic philosophy
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 resourc…
The missing self in scientific psychiatry
The Dual State in Turkey
Exploring the post-2015 phase in Turkey’s autocratization process through a conceptual perspective based on Ernst Fraenkel’s The Dual State, this paper argues that Turkey’s political regime has evolved into a dual system of rule, characterized by the concurrent existence of a “normative state” that somehow observes its own laws and a “prerogative state” acting arbitrarily beyond the law. The paper begins with a selective survey of the recent work…
Beyond mind–body dualism: Embracing pluralism in psychiatric research—introduction to the special issue, “Psychiatry and Its Philosophy”
Self-concept through the diagnostic looking glass: Narratives and mental disorder
This paper explores how the diagnosis of mental disorder may affect the diagnosed subject's self-concept by supplying an account that emphasizes the influence of autobiographical and social narratives on self-understanding. It focuses primarily on the diagnoses made according to the criteria provided by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and suggests that the DSM diagnosis may function as a source of narrative that affec…
Beyond mind–body dualism: Embracing pluralism in psychiatric research—introduction to the special issue, “Psychiatry and Its Philosophy”
The missing self in scientific psychiatry
Not with narratives, not without narratives: A review of “Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, etc.” Galen Strawson
In this short article I will review Galen Strawson’s most recent book, “Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, etc.“ As it is impossible to do justice to the full collection in a review, and as many readers will already have encountered his ideas elsewhere, I will focus on Strawson’s critical views on the narrative approaches to the self as these are revealed in several of the essays
Is Big Data the New Stethoscope? Perils of Digital Phenotyping to Address Mental Illness
Self and mental disorder: Lessons for psychiatry from naturalistic philosophy
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 resourc…
My Illness, My Self, and I: When self-narratives and illness-narratives clash
In a compelling and provocative paper, ‘Solving the Self-Illness Ambiguity: The Case for Construction Over Discovery,’ Sofia M.I. Jeppsson distinguishes two ways of addressing the self-illness ambiguty problem. The first is the Realist Solution, which postulates a pre-existing border between the self and the illness and frames the goal of treatment in psychiatry as helping the patient ‘discover’ this boundary. Addressing the shortcomings of the R…
Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry
This paper challenges the exclusion of patients from epistemic practices in psychiatry by examining the creation and revision processes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association that identifies the properties of mental disorders and thereby guides research, diagnosis, treatment, and various administrative tasks. It argues there are epistemic—rather than exclusiv…
The Dual State in Turkey
Exploring the post-2015 phase in Turkey’s autocratization process through a conceptual perspective based on Ernst Fraenkel’s The Dual State, this paper argues that Turkey’s political regime has evolved into a dual system of rule, characterized by the concurrent existence of a “normative state” that somehow observes its own laws and a “prerogative state” acting arbitrarily beyond the law. The paper begins with a selective survey of the recent work…
A philosophical exploration of experience-based expertise in mental health care
The idea that (former) patients are experts who could contribute to mental health care practices is gaining traction. Experts-by-Experience are increasingly employed by institutions to contribute to various levels of care, organization and policy-making. However, the success of this movement is hindered by conceptual and epistemological ambiguities. Our goal in this paper is to turn to the rich philosophical literature to start addressing such am…
What the self does for psychiatry: Testimony, cognitive science, and participatory objectivity
Reclaiming The Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science argues that contemporary scientific psychiatry has sidelined its most essential object of study: the self. Drawing on first-person testimonies of individuals experiencing mental distress, alongside resources from cognitive and behavioral sciences, the book shows that disruptions to agency, narrative coherence, embodiment, relationality, and self-concept are no…
Exploring storytelling practices of pre-service teachers with young EFL learners in the Turkish primary context
There have been numerous theoretical recommendations for the use of age-appropriate pedagogical tools for young learners (YLs) such as storytelling. However, a practical challenge remains in understanding how novice teachers translate these recommendations into concrete scaffolding strategies in actual classrooms and how effective they are in engaging children with English. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study aimed to identify the scaffo…
Mental Health and Psychiatry (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 works)