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'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health
Trust and trustworthiness are essential for good healthcare, especially in mental healthcare. New technologies, such as mobile health apps, can...
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From Words to Worlds. How Metaphors and Language Shape Mental Health
Through this contribution I aim to show how language and metaphors shape our mental health, and how overcoming a diagnosis-centred approach in favour...
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Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands
BackgroundSelf-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include the possibility for service users to consent in advance to...
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The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review
The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) included the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder (SPCD)...
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Sleep and Its Disorders: When ToM Is Not Awake
Sleep is a physiological behaviour, cyclical and reversible, that occupies one third of our lives, even if some consider this time as regrettably...
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Mental Illness, Lack of Autonomy, and Physician-Assisted Death
In this chapter, I consider the idea that physician-assisted death might come into question in the cases of psychiatric patients who are incapable of...
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Applying Genetic and Genomic Tools to Psychiatric Disorders: A Sco** Review
IntroductionThe bioethics literature reflects significant interest in and concern with the use of genetic and genomic information in various...
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Ethics Guideline Development for Neuroscience Research involving Patients with Mental Illness in Japan
This study aims to develop guidelines of key concepts and specific considerations to make the research more ethical when conducting neurological...
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The Empirical Correlation of Mental and Bodily Phenomena
This chapter is Grace Andrus de Laguna’s discussion of the relationship between mind and brain.
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Experts by Experience, Demedicalization and the Emergence of Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care: Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management (GAM) in Brazil
This chapter addresses an alternative mental health care strategy to the hegemonic medicalizing logic: Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management (GAM)...
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Affect Disorders: An Husserlian Interpretation of Alexytimia, BPD and Narcissistic Traits
Affects and all its variants (affection, allure, affective force, etc.) represent our via regia to be alive and connected with our life-world. It is...
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Cities and Mental Life
While climate change can induce mental states such as anxiety, fear, stress, and depression, which affect our existence, other wicked problems such...
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Analyzing the Dynamics Between Theory of Mind, Speech Disorders, and Brain Rewiring in Aphasia
Much has been discussed about the Theory of Mind (ToM) and language. Some authors suggest that activating one enlightens the other, while others view...
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The essentialism of early modern psychiatric nosology
Are psychiatric disorders natural kinds? This question has received a lot of attention within present-day philosophy of psychiatry, where many...
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Towards the implementation of law n. 219/2017 on informed consent and advance directives for patients with psychiatric disorders and dementia. Physicians’ knowledge, attitudes and practices in four northern Italian health care facilities
BackgroundOn December 2017 the Italian Parliament approved law n. 219/2017 “Provisions for informed consent and advance directives” regarding...
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Functional Reasoning in Psychiatry
Two types of functional reasoning are commonly used in psychiatry. For the first type, a mental disorder is conceptualized as the impairment of a...
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The Mental Health of Refugees during a Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Resettled Bhutanese Refugees
This paper is the first of two in a series. In this paper, we identify mental health needs and challenges in the age of COVID-19 among...
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Mental Health
The concept of health can be approached from a naturalistic or a normativistic position. Naturalistic perspectives articulate that health is...
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Temporal experience as a core quality in mental disorders
The goal of this paper is to introduce Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences’ thematic issue on disordered temporalities. The authors begin by...
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The Mental Health of Refugees during a Pandemic: Striving toward Social Justice through Social Determinants of Health and Human Rights
This paper is the second of two in a series. In our first paper, we presented a social justice framework emerging from an extensive literature review...
