Psychopathology in the light of emergent trends in the philosophy of consciousness, neuropsychiatry and phenomenology
Aaron Mishara, Michael A Schwartz
September 1, 1997 DOI: 10.1097/00001504-199709000-00011 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Key points | Argues that philosophical approaches to cognitive neuroscience and psychopathology offer new resolutions to the mind/body problem, but that operationalizing subjectivity in psychiatric research aligns with algorithmic decision-making rather than enhancing clinicians' skills. Proposes a renewed reading of classical psychiatrists to address these dilemmas. |
Abstract
A controversy rages in philosophical approaches to mind that goes to the core of the mind/body problem in psychiatry:how is it possible that a physical system, no matter complex, can give rise to the subjective experience of consciousness? Taking this irreducibility of consciousness into account, philosophical approaches to cognitive neuroscience and psychopathology, as well as the rapid evolving cognitive neurophychiatry, have been forcing new resolutions to the mind/body problem and other traditional dualisms which plague the older psychiatric explanatory models. Attempts to operationalize subjectivity in psychiatric research, however, are more concordant with the present trend to unburden clinical decision making by algorithmic formulas (as dictated by the pressures of managed care and operationalized research) than engaging and developing the skills of the clinician in terms of his or her total potential. Such dilemmas require a renewed reading of classical psychiatrists who have attempted to take account of the subjective experience of consciousness in their seminal psychopathologies.
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Citations in the library
Cited by 2
- The Sensory and Perceptual Scaffolding of Absorption, Inner Speech, and Self in Psychosis. Frontiers in Psychiatry May 10, 2021
- No departure to "Pandora"? Using critical phenomenology to differentiate "naive" from "reflective" experience in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine (A comment on Schwartz and Wiggins, 2010) Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine November 26, 2010