Formal Thought Disorder (FTD) presents psychiatry's central paradox: it is one of the robust predictors of poor outcomes and polygenic risk in psychosis yet remains poorly defined and rarely measured clinically. We systematically reviewed 50 years of FTD assessment (16 rating scales, 32 factor analyses) to understand this paradox. Research to date has implicitly treated FTD as a natural kind, a...
In the research and literature on pain-related suffering, a difference has recently been made between suffering processes of the minimal self in contrast to the hardships of the narrative self. This article proposes that an in-between layer of selfhood needs to be distinguished and studied to understand pain-related suffering in a more thorough manner: the enworlded self. Pain-related suffering...
In recent debates in qualitative research, it has been emphasized that methods are not merely collections of techniques, but socially stabilized ways of making knowledge claims intelligible. In this paper, I intervene at this meta-methodological level by examining what it means for a qualitative method to claim philosophical grounding. Rather than evaluating empirical results, I ask under what...
In this chapter, we situate aesthetic emotions within the embodied-enactive framework of the mind. Building on central enactive accounts of art, Noë’s account of art as reorganizational practice and Gallagher’s account of the unaffordable in aesthetic experience, we examine the transformative potential of aesthetic engagement while highlighting a remaining challenge: these approaches leave...
This article develops a processual-perspectivist interpretation of Active Inference. Predictive Processing, the Free Energy Principle, and Active Inference are often read as theories of internal world-modeling by an epistemically secluded brain. On such readings, the brain constructs generative models of hidden external causes and thereby risks reinstating a classical inside–outside...
В статье анализируется проблема междисциплинарности на примере нейрофеноменологии Т. Фукса. Воссоздается история диалога философии и психиатрии как история антиномизма научных подходов. Вскрываются основания энактивизма как основания преодоления антиномизма в философии психиатрии, выделяются две волны энактивизма в психиатрии. Уточняются энактивистские установки современной нейрофеноменологии....
Abstract The phenomenological concept of minimal selfhood (understood as the pre-reflective dimension of ‘for-me-ness’ or ‘mineness’ that is constitutive of the first-personal character of experience) is often treated as so formal and abstract that it remains neutral regarding embodiment. This paper challenges that view through a neurophenomenological approach that circulates between empirical...
يندرج مبحث القصدية في الأصل ضمن فلسفة العقل ويعد من أهم مباحثها الشائكة، التي تمثل إشكالًا فلسفيًا عميقًا. إذ قامت نظريات عديدة ومذاهب فلسفية كاملة على نظرية القصدية وذلك يرجع لتعقد مسائلها وصعوبة دراستها والبحث فيها، لدرجة أن الفيلسوف الأمريكي جون سيرل يصفها (المشكلة). حيث يقول في معرض ترتيبها ضمن مشاكل فلسفة العقل (تأتي القصدية في المرتبة الثانية أما المرتبة الأولى فتأتي مشكلة الوعي). إن...
This article aims to present a model to explain the phenomenology of hypnosis, with particular reference to plastic monoideism and its phenomenology, integrating some of the current scientific theories of consciousness, particularly those of Karl Friston's free energy theory. Experimental studies demonstrate the existence of a close relationship between the individual's representational system...
Conscious thought is often treated as a special class of neural processing, distinct from the nonconscious computations that guide most behavior. Here I offer a different perspective, grounded in the neuroscience of decision-making. I argue that conscious thought arises not from a unique mechanism but from a distinctive use of neural representations already engaged in nonconscious thought....