The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry | Imperfect Cognitions Blog
An introduction to the Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. Imperfect Cognitions: The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry
Sweeping vs. Creeping Reductionism in Addiction Research | Imperfect Cognitions Blog
“She draws on the scientific literature on mental illness, philosophical literature on the self, and the ethics literature on what contributes to human flourishing to facilitate the expansion of psychiatric …
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There is Such Thing as The Self and It is Empirically Tractable | Aeon Magazine
“Contrary to recent opinion, there is such a thing as the self, and it is empirically amenable to scientific investigation…” The self does exist, and is amenable to scientific investigation …
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Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry | Imperfect Cognitions Blog
“Thank you for giving us the opportunity to provide some information about our book, Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research, published with the MIT Press …
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The Missing Self in Scientific Psychiatry | Philosopher Blog Article
I am taking this opportunity to talk about the main arguments in my article “The Missing Self in Scientific Psychiatry,” which is recently published in Syhthese: An International Journal for …
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Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds? Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases
Tekin, Ş. 2016. Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds? Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2016/02/are-mental-disorders-natural-kinds.html.
Remembering Ulric Neisser | The Brains Blog
“Ulric Neisser, an American psychologist and one of the founders of cognitive psychology died last month. Neisser’s life, including his major contributions to the revolution of the study of the …
Psychiatry: Far From the Madding Grief? | Hesperus is Bosphorus
“What worries me about diagnosing the multifaceted and complex grief experience as depression is its influence on the patient’s conceptualization and understanding of her grief and her concomitant response…” Psychiatry: …
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What is empirically-informed philosophy of mind? | The Brains Blog
“John Schwenkler’s thought-provoking survey on the climate for women in empirically-informed philosophy of mind prompts me to think more carefully about what empirically-informed philosophy of mind actually is. Are there …
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A Query into Mental Illness Memoirs: Does Writing Help Psychiatric Patients? | Neuroethics and Law Blog
“Given the limited health care resources offered to psychiatric patients, and the limited time each patient is allotted for face to face psychotherapeutic treatment (see for instance Gardiner Harris’s[2] recent …