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Molecular Psychiatry - Taking subjectivity seriously: towards a unification of phenomenology, psychiatry, and neuroscience

The phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty entwines us, via our own beating, pulsing, living bodies, in the lives of others

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

How phenomenological tools can help foster a relationship of true listening between clinicians and people with psychosis

Nature Mental Health - Cases of mild or transient distress in young people are increasingly viewed as problems that require medical intervention. As CAMHS clinicians, we argue that this...

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Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - Delusions are often portrayed as paradigmatic instances of incomprehensibility and meaninglessness. Here we investigate the relationship between delusions...

Psychosis is a condition which often starts early in life and leaves a significant mark on a young person’s life. It is usually regarded and discussed from a professional point of view. This study ...

I am a 45-year-old Swedish philosopher with “schizo-something”: I have never been given a precise diagnostic label, but a psychiatrist once said that altho

Abstract. Poor insight into illness is considered the primary cause of treatment noncompliance in schizophrenia. In this article, we critically discuss the

The significance of critical phenomenology for psychiatric praxis has yet to be expounded. In this paper, I argue that the adoption of a critical phenomenological stance can remedy localised instan...

Synthese - Naturalistic understandings that frame human experiences and differences as biological dysfunctions have been identified as a key source of epistemic injustice. Critics argue that those...

Psychosis is the most ineffable experience of mental disorder. We provide here the first co-written bottom-up review of the lived experience of psychosis, whereby experts by experience primarily...

Letter to the Editor

This study describes the ways in which people with psychotic-like experiences without mental health care manage to achieve successful lives. The qualitative study, which used a grounded-theory appr...

The article aims at expanding the horizon of phenomenological psychopathology of depression from a social theoretical perspective. Based on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological ontology, in the first s...

Mental disorders are increasingly understood as involving complex alterations of self that emerge from dynamical interactions of constituent elements, includ...

The significance of critical phenomenology for psychiatric praxis has yet to be expounded. In this paper, I argue that the adoption of a critical phenomenological stance can remedy localised instan...

In much contemporary psychiatric training and practice, there is a strong emphasis on the audible or perceptual quality and externality of auditory verbal hallucinations in clinical assessments. A...

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - Double bookkeeping is a term introduced by Eugen Bleuler to describe a fundamental feature of schizophrenia where psychotic reality can...

This chapter sets out the increasing evidence that makes it clear that the understanding of psychosis from the biomedical perspective has reached its limits. It is proposed that this depletion has to...