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Should social pragmatic communication disorder be included in DSM-5? On uncertainties, pragmatic considerations, and the psychiatric kind debate
In this paper, we want to take a critical stance towards Tsou’s recent proposal that a neuro-oriented version of the homeostatic property cluster...
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Philosophical Implications of Changes in the Classification of Mental Disorders in DSM-5
The new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) by the American Psychiatric Association (Diagnostic and...
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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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Personality Disorder: Philosophical Problems
The concept of personality disorder was introduced in the twentieth century. Among the key events in the development of the personality disorder...
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Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework
The notion of harm has been a recurring and a significant notion in the characterization of mental disorder. It is present in eminent diagnostic...
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Harm should not be a necessary criterion for mental disorder: some reflections on the DSM-5 definition of mental disorder
The general definition of mental disorder stated in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders seems to identify...
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Do Feeding and Eating Disorders Fit the General Definition of Mental Disorder?
This paper aims at considering the conceptual status of feeding and eating disorders (FEDs). Now that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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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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Concluding Remarks
Broad implications of the study for psychiatry and phenomenology are outlined. Findings of the study bring under question the claim to universality...
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Clock Time and Tic Nosology
This chapter explores the central role played by clock time (homogenous, chronological, and objectified time) in the current classification of...
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Structural Problems in the Practice of Psychiatric Research
This chapter examines various structural and institutional loop-holes and market incentives that allow pharmaceutical companies to maximize profits...
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Due Care in the Context of Euthanasia Requests by Persons with Psychiatric Illness: Lessons from a Recent Criminal Trial in Belgium
Belgium is one of very few countries where euthanasia on the basis of psychiatric illness is legally possible. Three physicians involved in the...
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Mobile Devices and Autonomy: Individual-Level Effects
In this chapter, we offer a review of the empirical findings that animate our concerns about the effects of mobile devices on individuals (the...
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Phenomenology of Vulnerability: A Person-Centred Approach
The COVID-19 pandemicTellenbach, Hubertus has caused global stress. However, people reacted differently, some with various forms of distress....
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Clinical Implications
Scientific realism is the philosophical conviction that the posits of science—quarks, electrons, forces—are real, not just ways of accounting for the...
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Causal Connections Between Anorexia Nervosa and Delusional Beliefs
Numerous studies of the beliefs of people with anorexia nervosa (AN) suggest that a subset of such individuals may experience delusions. We first...
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Mental Disorders as Genuine Medical Conditions
Psychiatry and the other mental health professions treat problematic psychological conditions that are claimed to be “mental disorders” that qualify...
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The importance of involving experts-by-experience with different psychiatric diagnoses when revising diagnostic criteria
Philosophers of science have recently called for experts-by-experience to be involved in revising psychiatric diagnoses. They argue that...
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Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes
This paper provides a historical analysis of a shift in the way animal models of mental disorders were conceptualized: the shift from the...