Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

Chloe Bamboulis is currently a third year PhD Philosophy student at Birmingham University, while working as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Regarding her academic career, she completed an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and a postgraduate degree in Bioethics at the University of Crete. she then continued her studies by completing a second undergraduate degree in Psychology and a postgraduate degree in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology at Swansea University. She has been working mostly as a teacher in secondary schools, an assistant psychologist in various environments and as a post graduate teaching assistant. Her academic interests include ethical philosophy and psychology.

Lisa Bortolotti is a philosopher of the cognitive sciences, focusing on the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. She is also interested in some issues in biomedical ethics. Since January 2022, she is the Editor in Chief of Philosophical Psychology. Her main interests lie in the strengths and limitations of human cognition and agency, investigating faulty reasoning and irrational beliefs, delusions, confabulations, distorted memories, poor knowledge of the self, unreliable self narratives, self-deception, inconsistencies between attitudes and behavior, unrealistic optimism, and other positive illusions. She is also interested in how health, well-being, rationality, and agency interact.

Mary "Molly" Camp is a Geriatric Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Her scholarly interests include geriatric psychiatry education and professional development in medical education. Recent publications include "Medical student reflections on geriatrics: moral distress, empathy, ethics, and end of life (Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 2018), Addicts and admits: Metonymy in medical student reflective writing (Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2020), and Current educational practices for major neurocognitive disorders in psychiatry: A scoping review (Academic Psychiatry, 2021).

Jens Gaab is Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Basel.

Mona Gupta, MD, CM, FRCPC, PhD, is a psychiatrist and researcher at the Centre l'Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal. She is also Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Montréal. Her broad area of academic interest is the intersection of ethics and epistemology in psychiatry.

Julian Hughes, having initially served in the RAF, was a NHS consultant in old age psychiatry for more than 20 years. He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford, Medicine at Bristol, and gained a Philosophy PhD from Warwick. He has been honorary professor of philosophy of ageing at Newcastle and professor of old age psychiatry at Bristol. He has written widely. Elected Fellow of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, he advised various national and international bodies and was the deputy chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

Nancy Nyquist Potter is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Adjunct with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville. Her research interests are philosophy and psychiatry, feminist philosophy, virtue ethics, and understanding forms of violence. Her current work is in meanings and interplays between voice, silence, and giving uptake, in particular in clinical settings and with respect to patients/service users. Her most recent books are The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement (2016); Mapping the Edges and the In-Between: A Critical Analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder (2009); and the edited volume Trauma, Truth, and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships (2006), all by Oxford University Press.

Douglas Porter is a staff psychiatrist at the Algiers Behavioral Health Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Louisiana State University and a Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at Tulane University School of Medicine. His research interests concern the application of philosophical concepts to the theory and practice of psychiatry.

Sahanika Ratnayake is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna. She is primarily a philosopher of psychiatry and medicine, with a particular interest in contemporary psychotherapy.

Jason M. Thompson, PhD, is a writer and clinical psychologist. He currently serves as a staff psychologist at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in Oakland, California. He is the author of Running is a Kind of Dreaming (HarperCollins).

G. Scott Waterman is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University...