Modern epistemology usually examines concepts once they are already constituted, leaving unexplained how they arise and how they change while remaining recognizably the same. Objective: to propose, from Cognitive Psychiatry, a naturalistic epistemogenesis of concepts grounded in processuality. Methodology: a theoretical, hypothesis-generating essay confronting the proposal with antecedents in...
Traditional epistemology studies knowledge mainly through its formalized results, such as concepts, propositions and criteria of truth, and leaves the natural processes that precede them insufficiently explained. This article aims to propose, from the standpoint of Cognitive Psychiatry, a naturalistic and psychogenetic model of the genesis of knowledge, consciousness and science. It is a...
Christopher Peacocke proposed that a concept is individuated by the conditions a subject must meet to possess it, bringing the philosophy of concepts closer to cognition, but he left unexplained how those conditions arise. This article aims to propose, from the standpoint of Cognitive Psychiatry, a genetic and communicational theory of conceptualization that completes Peacocke’s theory of...
Schizotypy is described as a multidimensional trait and a risk marker for the schizophrenia spectrum, but its psychopathological understanding as a process remains underdeveloped. This essay proposes an interpretive model and examines it against the literature of 2021 to 2026. The model comprises five propositions: (1) refusal of the relational field is the entry condition, reached through...
This theoretical article examines the relation between logos, concept, word, proposition and truth from Plato to analytic philosophy and proposes, from the standpoint of Cognitive Psychiatry, a processual reading of epistemology. The method is a qualitative conceptual essay supported by a narrative review of classical sources and of literature published between 2021 and 2026. The historical...
The general objective of this article is to propose an epistemological and psychiatric-cognitive critique of the absolutization and reification of form in philosophy (in Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein), grounding a ‘third way’ that reintegrates formal analysis, psychogenesis, praxis, and clinical-neurological evidence under the central thesis that form does not ground the world but...
Mediumship is a complex human phenomenon that can be investigated by cognitive psychiatry and consciousness neuroscience without theological assumptions or psychopathological reductionism. This study aimed to formulate and theoretically substantiate a neuroconnectomic, genetic, and psychofunctional hypothesis of mediumship as a network phenotype characterized by greater interhemispheric...
A esquizofrenia e os transtornos psicóticos continuam a desafiar a psiquiatria moderna devido à sua extrema heterogeneidade clínica. Esta revisão integrativa propõe uma matriz interpretativa dimensional para a compreensão da “anatomia do delírio esquizofrênico”, fundamentada em observações clínicas e corroborada por uma revisão sistemática da literatura recente. Utilizando a metodologia PRISMA...
Categorical nosological systems frequently fall short when confronted with patients whose presentations cross established diagnostic boundaries. We report M.S., a 44-year-old Brazilian man involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit who presented with systematized persecutory ideation of mechanistic–technological content (chip implantation, satellite-based surveillance), structural...