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    (1 other version)Whose Evidence? Which Scientificity? Or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Caught Being Historically Contingent.Konrad Banicki - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):107-110.
    "How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!"A common part of doing science is acting as if our particular endeavor was ahistorical and unaffected by all external influences we would like the 'pursuit of truth' to be free of. To act under such a premise, or even to believe that it is valid, is in a sense understandable, possibly even necessary for any worthwhile scientific effort to take place. At the same time, however, (...)
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    (1 other version)"Triggered": The Depth and Breadth of a Psychological Construct.Sara Bonilla, Sharon Lamb & Aashika Anantharaman - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):1-14.
    Within the psy- disciplines, Foucauldian discourse analysis has shown that those who exercise power in defining psychological experiences seek to maintain existing power hierarchies through this labeling. In that way, it is a fitting method to examine how the use of specific language constructs reality for individuals and society as a whole. Currently, the use of the word "triggered" has proliferated beyond the common mental health usage to refer to posttraumatic stress disorder or a re-experiencing symptom of a trauma. In (...)
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  3. (1 other version)Boredom and Anorexia: Escaping the Ontological Condition.Alexandre Chapy & Corinne Gal - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):23-36.
    Boredom is a frequently expressed feeling in anorexia. However, boredom is rarely a subject of study. We propose that boredom has a central place in the understanding of anorexia. Boredom, in that it reveals the ontological condition of each one, pushes the subject to face its existence and the burden it constitutes. Anorexia would thus be an attempt to fight against boredom to avoid this ontological encounter. Certain characteristics of existence proposed by Heidegger are thus brought to the forefront: ability-to-be, (...)
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    (1 other version)The Value of a Heideggerian Approach to Anorexia: Time, Solitude and Intersubjectivity.Alexandre Chapy & Corinne Gal - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):45-47.
    Thanks to the particularly pertinent comments of Moskalewicz and Hughes, we would like to point out that our proposals seem to echo, in another way, Castellini et al.'s recent work (2022). The authors propose that, in anorexia, difficulties in experiencing the first bodily experiences have numerous consequences, notably on a temporal or intersubjective level. Basically, if anorexia sufferers are unable to develop a coherent and meaningful subjectivity based on these fundamental experiences, they have to find the norm in the gaze (...)
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    (1 other version)Clinical Implications of Phenomenological: Psychopathology Reflections on a Study of Social Anxiety Disorder.Anthony Vincent Fernandez - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):15-17.
    Despite Martin Heidegger's famous analysis of Angst [anxiety] in Being and Time, contemporary phenomenologists have had surprisingly little to say about everyday experiences of anxiety—whether healthy or pathological. But Martin Vestergaard Kristiansen's recent work shows how phenomenology can provide a wealth of insight into the complexities and nuances of anxiety (Kristiansen, 2023a, 2023b). Moreover, his work demonstrates the central importance—perhaps even necessity—of conducting these studies empirically. The novelty of his insight is not found in armchair speculation or even critical reflection (...)
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  6. (1 other version)On the Myth of Psychotherapy.Craig French - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):67-80.
    Thomas Szasz famously argued that mental illness is a myth. Less famously, Szasz argued that since mental illness is a myth, so too is psychotherapy. Szasz's claim that mental illness is a myth has been much discussed, but much less attention has been paid to his claim that psychotherapy is a myth. In the first part of this essay, I critically examine Szasz's discussion of psychotherapy to uncover the strongest version of his case for thinking that it is a myth. (...)
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    (1 other version)Inter-affectivity in Anorexia.Emily Joy Hughes - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):37-39.
    In phenomenological conceptions of anorexia, disordered eating practices have predominantly been interpreted according to disturbances of embodied intersubjectivity, demonstrated in feelings such as shame and disgust, a sense that one is extraneous to one's own body, and a heightened reliance upon the gaze of the other (Fuchs, 2022; Gaete & Fuchs, 2016; Legrand, 2010; Legrand & Briend, 2015; Stanghellini et al., 2012; Stanghellini et al., 2015). Through these alterations to the lived body, it is theorized that the body-as-subject becomes increasingly (...)
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    (1 other version)Wither CBT?M. D. James Phillips - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):105-106.
    In these two articles Sahanika Ratnayake attempts to unpack the history of cognitivebehavior therapy (CBT) and explain a course in which CBT became more prominent while psychoanalysis suffered a loss of prominence. In the first paper, "The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Part I: Dismantling the Legend of CBT," she describes the fracas in which Aaron Beck, the founder of CBT, attempted to both defend the merits of CBT and expose the demerits of psychoanalysis. Popper, (...)
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    (1 other version)Feeling like a Perpetual Outsider: Relationality in Social Anxiety Disorder.Martin Vestergaard Kristiansen - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):1-10.
    The role of loneliness in shaping the interpersonal experience of patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) is poorly understood. The present study begins to close this gap through phenomenological analysis of a series of experiential interviews with eight people suffering from SAD. The analysis shows that in socially anxious experiences, the sense of being an outsider to a seamlessly unfolding interpersonal situation constitutes the self-other relationship in which the patient finds themselves. In this experience of an unamendable separation from others, (...)
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    (1 other version)Revisiting the phenomenology of social anxiety disorder: Lived Body, Gestalt, and Clinical Significance.Martin Vestergaard Kristiansen - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):19-21.
    Interpretive debate lies at the heart of phenomenological explorations of the myriad variations of human experience and suffering. Merleau-Ponty's (1945/1982) reanalysis of the Schneider-case is a classic example; Young's (1980) critical revision of Straus's (1966) considerations on feminine corporeality is another. This kind of continuous scholarly dialogue is of special relevance in exploring anxiety in its complexity as Micali (2022) underscores in a recent philosophical exploration of the phenomenon. Capturing the nuances and inherent ambiguity of anxiety, Micali contends, requires a (...)
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    (1 other version)Expanding the Phenomenology of Social Anxiety Disorder: Loneliness, Absence, and Bodily Doubt.Joel Krueger, Lucy Osler & Tom Roberts - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):11-14.
    Kristiansen's "Feeling like a perpetual outsider: relationality in Social Anxiety Disorder" offers a valuable analysis of loneliness within social anxiety disorder (SAD). Although phenomenological psychopathology has given extensive attention to conditions like schizophrenia, depression, and disordered eating, a more nuanced phenomenological examination of SAD is needed (Bortolan, 2023; Tanaka, 2020; Trigg, 2016). Kristiansen's work addresses this deficit and contributes to broader philosophical and phenomenological discussions of loneliness, including recent work on loneliness within psychopathology (e.g., Krueger et al., 2023; Motta, 2021; (...)
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    (1 other version)PTSD Model of Trauma in Cultural Context: The Case of Iranian Political Lifeworld.Moujan Mirdamadi - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):115-128.
    This paper offers a phenomenologically informed critique of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) model of trauma in cross-cultural contexts. Using the case of the Iranian political lifeworld, where the psychiatric discourse of trauma in delineations of various heterogenous experiences of distress is dominant, I demonstrate how trauma can be conceptualized and experienced as temporally extended and collectively shared—contrary to the paradigmatic understanding. First, the PTSD model of trauma as seen in the _Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders_ (DSM) is (...)
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    (1 other version)The Temptations of Heideggerian Psychopathology.Marcin Moskalewicz - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):41-43.
    Heidegger's fundamental ontology is a powerful weapon, but that power comes with a price. It carries a totalizing capacity within, including the extinguishing of all parties partaking in a philosophical dispute. After all, there are no longer any "parties" involved, no selves or objects or aspects or qualities or anything actually. We initiate a quest beyond things.In their work, "Boredom and Anorexia," Alexandre Chapy and Corinne Gal (2025) deliberately reach for that weapon to demonstrate that anorexia is a failed attempt (...)
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    (1 other version)Imagery in the Clinic.Norman Poole - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):61-63.
    The focus of Peyman's interesting paper is to make clear the distinction between mental imagery and sensory perception in such a way as to avoid rendering the former overly inclusive. He wants there to be a clear distinction between mental imagery and perceptual phenomena such as psychotic hallucinations and non-lucid dreaming. He could have emphasized this point by drawing attention to the finding that at least some of those with aphantasia experience visual dreams (Zeman, 2024). To the clinician who is (...)
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    (1 other version)Clarifying the Boundaries of Mental Imagery.Peyman Pourghannad - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):65-66.
    In responding to Norman Poole's insightful commentary on my paper, I wish to express my appreciation for his thorough engagement with the concepts and definitions I have proposed. His observations and critiques highlight some challenges in distinguishing between mental imagery and related perceptual phenomena—a task that is both complex and crucial for advancing our understanding in both philosophical and clinical contexts. In the following, I will address some of his specific concerns and clarify the reasoning behind the positions I have (...)
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    (1 other version)Defining Mental Imagery in Terms of Spatial Neutrality: A Differential Analysis.Peyman Pourghannad - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):49-59.
    In this paper, first, I will argue why the definition of mental imagery in terms of its stimulus (external vs. internal) does not capture some essential properties of mental imagery; second, I will offer an alternative in which I define it in terms of phenomenological similarities and differences between mental imagery and perception. There, I will argue that the fact that mental imagery is essentially neutral with respect to the spatial location of its object indicates a fundamental feature, which refers (...)
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    (1 other version)Playing Someone Else's Game: Therapy and Evidence-based Medicine.Sahanika Ratnayake - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):111-114.
    In the two papers charting the rise of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) and the decline of psychoanalysis, I adopted the framework of integrated history and philosophy of science. It was refreshing for a philosopher to adopt something of the historian's neutrality. Naturally, it is unclear whether there is such a thing as true neutrality, but to describe a historical transition and the conceptual accompanying changes without being drawn into whether they were positive or negative was liberating.Such a standpoint has its limitations. (...)
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    (1 other version)The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Part I: Dismantling the Legend of CBT.Sahanika Ratnayake - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):81-92.
    This is the first of two papers charting the decline of psychoanalysis and the ascendancy of cognitivebehavioral therapy (CBT). In this paper, which adopts the methodology of integrated history and philosophy of science, I evaluate the 'origin story' presented by CBT proponents which describes the efforts of Aaron Beck to disprove the psychoanalytic theory of depression and present an alternate understanding of mental illness. I argue that contrary to the presentation of CBT as uniquely possessing evidence for its theoretical account (...)
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    (1 other version)The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Part II: The Challenge of Psychopharmaceuticals.Sahanika Ratnayake - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 32 (1):93-104.
    This is the second of two papers charting the decline of psychoanalysis and the ascendancy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). In this paper, which adopts the methodology of integrated history and philosophy of science (HPS), I consider the impact of psychopharmaceuticals on the decline of psychoanalysis and the ascendancy of CBT. I argue that contrary to certain accounts given of this period where psychopharmaceuticals straightforwardly supplanted psychoanalysis, their influence was largely related to the introduction of a new evidential standard, namely, clinical (...)
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    (1 other version)Dialectical Tension Between Gloomy and Rosy Prospects of Behavioral Genetics.Awais Aftab - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):451-454.
    Turkheimer and Greer’s article “Spit for Science and the Limits of Applied Psychiatric Genetics” (2024) offers a devastating critique of the state of psychiatric genetics, using Spit for Science (S4S) as a case study. I have read the paper many times in the process of writing this commentary, and each time I am left inarticulate. Nonetheless, I hope that my comments, from the point of view of a practitioner who operates at the intersection of clinical psychiatry, psychiatric science, and philosophy (...)
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    (1 other version)The Post-Genomic Revolution: A Paradigm Shift for Biopsychosocial Systems.Claude Robert Cloninger - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):429-436.
    The pstchologist Danielle Dick and psychiatrist Kenneth Kendler (DK) began an ongoing study in 2011 called Spit for Science (S4S) in which they obtained saliva as a peripheral source of DNA along with assessment of detailed self-report information on alcohol and other substance use, selected personality traits, and psychosocial history about the students entering a large university (Dick et al., 2014). They hoped to identify the genes underlying the heritability of alcohol use and related behaviors to inform students about their (...)
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    (1 other version)Spit for Science and the Progress and Promise of Psychiatric Genetics.Danielle M. Dick - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):425-428.
    In their paper “Spit for Science and the Limits of Applied Psychiatric Genetics,” Turkheimer and Rodock Greer use results from the Spit for Science (S4S) project to argue that the idea of psychiatric genetics1 yielding actionable results is a folly. Although there is much about which Turkheimer and I agree (I took my first psychology class from him 30 years ago), we fundamentally disagree about the outlook of psychiatric genetics. His paper suggests that our differing conclusions arise from the authors (...)
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    (1 other version)The Uselessness of Polygenic Scores for Addressing Campus Drinking.Bennett Knox, Hannah Allen & Stephen M. Downes - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):437-439.
    Here we articulate a negative answer to Turkheimer and Greer’s question: “Is it possible to envision a genetically informed program that ethically intervenes on campus drinking?” (Turkheimer & Greer, 2024). However, first, we note that the authors cover an immense amount of ground in their paper. They lend insight into how psychiatric genetics, at its very core, is conducted through their detailed examination of a large body of work in one specific area of this large field. A main result of (...)
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    Insight Deficits in Substance Use Disorders Through the Lens of Double Bookkeeping.Austin Lam, Tom Froese & Christian G. Schütz - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):365-378.
    Eugen Bleuler introduced the concept of double bookkeeping in schizophrenia to describe the tendency for people who experience delusions to simultaneously be convinced of the delusional content and yet to act as if the delusion(s) was untrue/irrelevant or be unbothered by discrepancies. We open the question of whether there exists a double reality in individuals with addiction and whether double bookkeeping can be applied to addiction. While double bookkeeping has primarily been explored in schizophrenia, this concept may hold promise in (...)
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    Affordances and the Shape of Addiction.Zoey Lavallee & Lucy Osler - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):379-395.
    Research in the philosophy of addiction commonly explores how agency is impacted in addiction by focusing on moments of apparent loss of control over addictive behavior and seeking to explain how such moments result from the effects of psychoactive substance use on cognition and volition. Recently, Glackin et al. (2021) have suggested that agency in addiction can be helpfully analyzed using the concept of affordances. They argue that addicted agents experience addiction-related affordances, such as action possibilities relating to drugs, drug (...)
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    (1 other version)The Peculiarly Favored Condition of Genetics.James J. Lee & Damien Morris - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):441-445.
    Turkheimer and Greer (2024) (henceforth “T&G”) make some fair points about problems in the scientific profession, including the regrettable tendency to promise practical applications of research that then never materialize. However, T&G’s sustained critique of a body of work associated with one particular researcher to make these general points struck us as uncharitable. More pressingly, we feel that the far-reaching conclusions that T&G attempt to draw from the results they review from the Spit for Science (S4S) cohort are unjustified and (...)
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    Addiction, Autonomy, and Self-Insight.Michelle Maiese - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):351-363.
    Theorists commonly maintain that addiction involves compulsion or diminished self-control. Some enactivist theorists have conceptualized this disruption to autonomous agency in terms of embodied habits that become overly rigid, so that an agent enacts this pattern of behavior even in circumstances that call for the activation of a very different set of habits. What is more, because addiction crowds out other goals and priorities, agents may become more one-dimensional and begin to lose a hold on values and commitments that are (...)
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    (1 other version)Crushing Pressures and Radical Ideas.John Z. Sadler - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):447-449.
    Back in 2011, I wrote a paper for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, an Australian journal, for a special issue dedicated to ethical issues associated with psychiatric genetics research. The editor was particularly excited by the recent findings of the 5-HTT allele in psychiatric illness. I had different ideas about what I wanted to write about, and the editor, Michael Robertson, graciously considered them and ultimately published the paper. At the time I was interested in the colossal investment of National (...)
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    (1 other version)Philosophical Case Conference: Spit for Science and the Limits of Applied Psychiatric Genetics.Eric Turkheimer & Sarah Rodock Greer - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):397-424.
    The research program Spit For Science was launched at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2011. Since then, more than 10,000 freshmen have been enrolled in the program, filling out extensive questionnaires about their drinking, general substance use, and related behaviors, and also contributing saliva for genotyping. The goals of the program, as initially stated by the investigators, were to find the genes underlying the heritability of alcohol use and related behaviors, and in addition to put genetic knowledge to work in (...)
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    (1 other version)Setting the Scientific Bar for the Genetics of Behavior.Eric Turkheimer & Sarah Rodock Greer - 2025 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 31 (4):455-460.
    We are grateful for the opportunity to respond to such a varied and challenging set of commentaries. They range from highly supportive to quite disputatious; we will repay the supportive ones ironically, by discussing them only briefly. That will allow us to expand a bit on the more difficult comments, and of course the thoughtful reply from Dr. Dick.Knox, Allen, and Downes imagine a world in which effective polygenic scores for alcohol use exist and conclude that even then there would (...)
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