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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Philosophy of Mind and Its Implications for Psychiatry

European Psychiatry
Introduction Philosophy of mind grapples with fundamental questions concerning the Consciousness, the Mind-body problem, the Identity, and Free will (as opposed to Determinism).
M. Gomes, A. Fernandes, P. Veloso, V. Santos   +3 more
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Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Psychiatry

Abstract I give a history of approaches to psychiatric diagnoses, outlining Kraepelin, psychoanalysis, the neo-Kraepelinians and the DSM project. I outline current concerns with the DSM and outline alternatives like RDoC, HiTOP and person centred approaches.
openaire   +1 more source

Contingency management interventions for substance use and addictive behaviours: Review of the United Kingdom evidence base

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Substance use and other addictive behaviours including gambling remain major public health concerns in the UK. Despite the effectiveness of substance use treatment approaches, treatment adherence and success rates remain low.
Carol‐Ann Getty, Tricia McQuarrie, Eileen Brobbin   +2 more
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A critical comment on Thomas Fuchs’s Psychiatry as a Relational Medicine

Psicopatologia Fenomenológica Contemporânea
The book Psychiatrie als Beziehungsmedizin – Ein ökologisches Paradigma (Fuchs, 2023) is an essential work in the field of phenomenological psychiatry. Thomas Fuchs manages, in a clear and pedagogical way, to offer the reader an argumentative path that ...
Fabio Caprio Leite de Castro
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The choice argument for proportional representation

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
wiley   +1 more source

Surprise and the singular plural

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract Bodymind diversity, disability scholars argue, contributes to community and to ideals of human flourishing. Phenomenologists like Nancy and Arendt, meanwhile, foreground our human pluralism. But what does it mean to inhabit (and invent) a plural “we” across significant bodily difference? And why is the experience of surprise important to it? A
Cheryl Mattingly
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking and thinking in Latin: some dead languages are alive and thriving in some very modern disorders

BJPsych Bulletin
As psychiatrists, we are hopefully especially attuned to the power of language, especially the words we use when discussing sensations, thoughts and bodies.
Jane Whittaker
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking the Tyranny of Modern Thinking: Keys From Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Buddhism

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
wiley   +1 more source