Affective scaffolding and chronic illness

Bibliographic Data

ID21591815
AuthorsEleanor Alexandra Byrne (0000-0002-3915-0298, Linköping University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume37
Issue4
Pages921-946
Publication date2024-05-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09515089.2022.2147422
OpenAlexW4309470631
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited49

Current attempts to understand unusually high rates of psychiatric illness in complex, chronic illnesses can be guilty of operating within an explanatory framework whereby there are two options. Either (a) that the psychiatric predicaments are secondary to the bodily condition, and (b) that they are primary. In this paper, I draw upon philosophical work on affect, contemporary empirical work, and qualitative first-person patient data to illustrate a much messier reality. I argue that affective experience is generally more complex in such conditions, and that a variety of pre- and post-morbid causal factors dynamically interact such that the resultant psychiatric predicaments do not permit to classification as strictly primary or secondary to the bodily condition. Affective scaffolding, in my view, provides an apt theoretical framework for capturing this nuance

Cognitive psychology · Psychotherapist · Communication · Health, psychology, and well-being · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments