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Mental Disorders
Mental disorders pertain to the whole of an individual, a person, namely a ‘self-interpreting animal’. Psychiatric classifications can influence what...
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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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Affectivity in mental disorders: an enactive-simondonian approach
Several enactive-phenomenological perspectives have pointed to affectivity as a central aspect of mental disorders. Indeed, from an enactive...
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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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Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review
BackgroundMedical assistance in dying (MAiD) sparks debate in several countries, some of which allow or plan to allow MAiD where a mental disorder is...
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Broken wills and ill beliefs: Szaszianism, expressivism, and the doubly value-laden nature of mental disorder
Critical psychiatry has recently echoed Szasz’s longstanding concerns about medical understandings of mental distress. According to Szaszianism, the...
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Mind-Reading Machines: Promises, Pitfalls, and Solutions of Implementing Machine Learning in Mental Health
The central premise of implementing machines to understand minds is perhaps based on Emerson Pugh’s (in)famous quote: “If the human brain were so...
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Experiences of Silence in Mood Disorders
This article challenges the consensus that silences about mental disorders are there to be broken. While silence in mental disorders can be painful,...
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Views on sharing mental health data for research purposes: qualitative analysis of interviews with people with mental illness
BackgroundImproving the ways in which routinely-collected mental health data are shared could facilitate substantial advances in research and...
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MAID for Persons with Mental Illness as a Sole Eligibility Criterion
The practice of EuthanasiaEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideSuicide (EAS), referred to in CanadaCanada as “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID), evolved...
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Why Does Mental Illness Exist? Reflections on Human Vulnerability
This chapter investigates more fundamentally the conditions of possibility for humans to become mentally ill in the first place. The fact that...
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Coercion in Mental Health Treatment
While a standard procedure in mental health internment facilities, physical restraint, as an extreme form of coercion in mental health, has been...
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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...
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Narratives & spiritual meaning-making in mental disorder
Narratives structure and inform how we understand our experiences and identity, especially in instances of suffering. Suffering in mental disorder...
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Unbalanced: Mental Illness, MAID and Medico-legal Principles
On March 17, 2021 the Parliament of Canada passed Bill C-7Bill C-7, an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada, expanding access to medical...
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What is mental health and disorder? Philosophical implications from lay judgments
How do people understand the concepts of mental health and disorder? The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of several factors on...
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Misidentification delusions as mentalization disorders
The aim of this article is to analyze those theories that interpret misidentification delusions in terms of mentalization. The hypothesis under...
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The case of poor postpartum mental health: a consequence of an evolutionary mismatch – not of an evolutionary trade-off
Postpartum mood disorders develop shortly after childbirth in a significant proportion of women and have severe effects. Two evolutionary...
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Imagination, endogenous attention, and mental agency
This paper develops a mechanistic account of basic mental agency by identifying similarities between two of its major exemplars: endogenous attention...