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ArticleWorld psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2024

Philosophy of psychiatry: theoretical advances and clinical implications.

Dan J Stein, Kris Nielsen, Anna Hartford, Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, Shane Glackin, Karl Friston, Mario Maj, Peter Zachar, Awais Aftab

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Article in World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  20. Reflections on mental health,African journal of disability · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Dan J SteinSouth African Medical Research Council Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Kris NielsenSchool of Psychology, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Anna HartfordSouth African Medical Research Council Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Anne-Marie Gagné-JulienCentre for Research in Ethics, Canada Research Chair in Epistemic Injustice and Agency, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Shane GlackinDepartment of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Karl FristonWellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
Mario MajDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
Peter ZacharDepartment of Psychology, Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, USA.
Awais AftabDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Work at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry has an extensive and influential history, and has received increased attention recently, with the emergence of professional associations and a growing literature. In this paper, we review key advances in work on philosophy and psychiatry, and their related clinical implications. First, in understanding and categorizing mental disorder, both naturalist and normativist considerations are now viewed as important - psychiatric constructs necessitate a consideration of both facts and values. At a conceptual level, this integrative view encourages moving away from strict scientism to soft naturalism, while in clinical practice this facilitates both evidence-based and values-based mental health care. Second, in considering the nature of psychiatric science, there is now increasing emphasis on a pluralist approach, including ontological, explanatory and value pluralism. Conceptually, a pluralist approach acknowledges the multi-level causal interactions that give rise to psychopathology, while clinically it emphasizes the importance of a broad range of "difference-makers", as well as a consideration of "lived experience" in both research and practice. Third, in considering a range of questions about the brain-mind, and how both somatic and psychic factors contribute to the development and maintenance of mental disorders, conceptual and empirical work on embodied cognition provides an increasingly valuable approach. Viewing the brain-mind as embodied, embedded and enactive offers a conceptual approach to the mind-body problem that facilitates the clinical integration of advances in both cognitive-affective neuroscience and phenomenological psychopathology.

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embodied cognitionenactivismmind‐body problemnaturalismnormativismPhilosophy of psychiatrypluralismreductionismscientismvalues‐based care

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PMID38727058
PMCPMC11083904

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