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Recent developments in philosophy of mind and psychopathology

Nancy Nyquist Potter

Current Opinion in Psychiatry July 30, 2010 DOI: 10.1097/yco.0b013e32833d41ed (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Review Peer reviewed
Topics Philosophy of mind
Citations 3
Key findings Argues that psychiatry should work with philosophers of mind to address how mind and brain produce psychiatric symptoms, citing recent findings on anxiety predictors, agency, self-ownership, extended mind, and moral sensitivity.

Abstract

Purpose: OF REVIEW: This review covers recent books and articles on the perennial problem of how mind and brain work together to produce psychiatric symptoms. RECENT

Findings: Discussed in this article are research on predictors of anxiety disorders, evidence relating to agency and sense of self-ownership, the extended mind hypothesis, and brain differences in genders of moral sensitivity. SUMMARY: Advances in brain sciences continue, but psychiatry would do well to work with philosophers in the field of philosophy of mind.