Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
July 1, 2026
Jason Michael Reynolds
Psychiatry’s approach to religiously framed psychotic experiences reflects unresolved philosophical tensions inherited from Kant’s distinction between nature and freedom. Reductionism collapses meaning into mechanism, perpetuating epistemic injustice; dual-validity recognizes both neurobiological and spiritual interpretations but lacks implementation frameworks. This article traces the impasse...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
June 1, 2026
Jeremy Ridenour, John Azer, Kyle Shepard et al.
Hospitality is a key concept in contemporary continental philosophy that emphasizes the importance of welcoming the stranger. Despite its relevance to psychotherapy, little has been written about how it could be a framework for the psychotherapeutic encounter, especially for people experiencing psychosis. In the world of psychiatry, the person with psychosis is often viewed as “other,” a...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
2026
Lukas Iwer-Docter
The concept of recognition has recently been introduced into the philosophy of psychiatry, particularly through Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, to discuss the demand for recognition by mental health activists. This paper complements this perspective with a first-person approach, that is, a phenomenological perspective on recognition using the example of psychosocial interventions for psychosis. For...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
October 1, 2025
Lucas F. Borkel, Tobías Fernández-Borkel, Jaime Rojas-Hernández et al.
This paper examines delusions and psychedelic experiences as sources of both epistemic risk and benefit. Although these states are often seen as irrational or pathological, the paper explores their potential epistemic and psychological benefits, such as fostering emotional adaptation and creativity. The paper cautions against interpreting subjective experiences as metaphysical truths, which...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
October 1, 2025
Patrick J. Casey
The thesis of this essay is that the desire to categorize psychiatric patients in a binary way—as either recognizing that their bizarre experiences are subjective and unreal or wrongly believing them to be objective and real—has resulted in misleading ways of talking about depersonalization/derealization disorder (DPDR). This has, in turn, obscured how the disorder presents in severe and...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
September 1, 2025
David Zheng
abstract: Paul's concepts of "Transformative Experiences" (TE) has sparked extensive discussion on multiple epistemological and ethical issues within philosophy. In particular, Paul's work has inspired significant work on the possibility of informed consent with regard to medical interventions that may induce said TEs. One such intervention, namely Psychedelic-assisted Therapy (PAT), has been...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
August 1, 2025
David Zheng
Paul’s concepts of “Transformative Experiences” (TE) has sparked extensive discussion on multiple epistemological and ethical issues within philosophy. In particular, Paul’s work has inspired significant work on the possibility of informed consent with regard to medical interventions that may induce said TEs. One such intervention, namely Psychedelic-assisted Therapy (PAT), has been discussed...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
August 1, 2025
Daniel Stearman
This paper examines recent empirical research on the psychedelic experience and makes sense of the current literature in terms of ontic structural realism, a position in the metaphysics of science which holds that relations are fundamental. This interpretation is maintained by first providing a philosophical framework for the varieties of self-transcendent experiences by implementing a notion...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
June 1, 2025
Miguel Núñez De Prado-Gordillo, Pablo López-silva
2 citations
Abstract: Over the last years, 4E Cognition approaches have emerged in an attempt to overcome the limitations of neuro-reductionism about mental disorders, that is, the view that mental disorders can be fully explained as brain disorders. Instead, 4E approaches emphasize in varying degrees the situated, embodied, embedded, and enactive features of psychopathological conditions. Despite its...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
September 1, 2024
Giulio Ongaro
Abstract:Philosophical speculation about how psychiatric externalism might function in practice has yet to fully consider the multitude of externalist psychiatric systems that exist beyond the bounds of modern psychiatry. Believing that anthropology can inform philosophical debate on the matter, the paper illustrates one such case. The discussion is based on 19 months of first-hand ethnographic...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
September 1, 2024
Tasia Scrutton
Abstract: Psychiatric literature about when instances of voice hearing should be regarded as religiously inflected psychopathology and when they should be regarded as religious experiences sometimes presupposes that a person’s experience can only be either psychopathological, or else a genuine religious experience. In this paper I will consider an alternative: the possibility of a both–and...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
June 1, 2024
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Debates on the distinction between religious experience and mental disorder tend to assume, rather than argue for, the existence of unique types of experience: the religious and the psychopathological. This paper interrogates this approach to the problem. It deconstructs the distinction by examining what the distinction is about beyond the terms in which it is presented and whether it matters...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
September 1, 2023
Corinne Gal, Alexandre Chapy, Marielle Fau et al.
Abstract:The authors argue that Morenian-inspired existential psychodrama turns out to be a formidable lever for opening up existence as it allows schizophrenic patients to incorporate the experience of an “absolutely other” on which the foundation of any autonomous self is built. More precisely, by relying on their clinical experiences, the authors show how psycho-dramatic play goes along with...