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History of Psychiatry Dec 2023A new psychiatric institution emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the psychopathic hospital. This institution represented a significant...
A new psychiatric institution emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the psychopathic hospital. This institution represented a significant development in the history of psychiatry, as it marked the profession's reorientation from asylum-based to hospital-based care, and in this way presaged the deinstitutionalization movement that would begin half a century later. Psychopathic hospitals were also an important marker of psychiatry's efforts to redefine its professional boundaries and respond to its vociferous critics. This entailed both a rapprochement with general medicine in an effort to assert its scientific bona fides and a redefinition of its scope of practice to absorb non-certifiable 'borderland' cases in order both to emphasize non-coercive treatment and to enlarge the profession's boundaries.
Topics: Humans; Psychiatry; Hospitals, Psychiatric
PubMed: 37691414
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231194910 -
History of Psychiatry Sep 2023Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl...
Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl Jaspers' 'phenomenological' psychiatry, and it is revised, used and defended by many still working in that tradition. On the face of it, this is rather curious. I examine what this notion of 'understanding' amounts to, why it entered and remains influential in psychiatry, and what insights for contemporary psychiatry are buried in the notion. I argue that it is unhelpfully associated with the view that the mental is epistemologically and methodologically autonomous, but that it nevertheless highlights an important lacuna in many views of psychiatry and the scientific study of humans more generally.
Topics: Humans; History, 20th Century; Psychiatry; Mental Disorders
PubMed: 37092812
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231163275 -
Psychiatrische Praxis Jul 2023The article examines the possibility of love in psychiatry against the background of its history, its tendency towards objectification and exclusion, and from the...
The article examines the possibility of love in psychiatry against the background of its history, its tendency towards objectification and exclusion, and from the perspective of a philosophy of encounter and hospitality.
Topics: Humans; Love; Germany; Psychiatry; Philosophy
PubMed: 37429279
DOI: 10.1055/a-2055-8913 -
Neuron Nov 2023Naomi Wray works at the interface of genetics, statistics and psychiatric disorders. With early training in quantitative genetics applied to livestock she brought to the...
Naomi Wray works at the interface of genetics, statistics and psychiatric disorders. With early training in quantitative genetics applied to livestock she brought to the field a perspective on the polygenic nature of common, complex disease. She advocates for experimental paradigms that exploit polygenicity to advance translational outcomes in psychiatry.
Topics: Female; Humans; Mental Disorders; Psychiatry; Multifactorial Inheritance
PubMed: 37918354
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.09.001 -
Transcultural Psychiatry Oct 2023This issue of presents selected papers from the McGill Advanced Study Institute on "Cultural Poetics of Illness and Healing." The meeting addressed the cognitive...
This issue of presents selected papers from the McGill Advanced Study Institute on "Cultural Poetics of Illness and Healing." The meeting addressed the cognitive science of language, metaphor, and from embodied and enactivist perspectives; how cultural affordances, background knowledge, discourse, and practices enable and constrain poiesis; the cognitive and social poetics of symptom and illness experience; and the politics and practice of poetics in healing ritual, psychotherapy, and recovery. This introductory essay outlines an approach to illness experience and its transformation in healing practices that emphasizes embodied processes of metaphor as well as the social processes of self-construal and positioning through material and discursive engagements with the cultural affordances that constitute our local worlds. The approach has implications for theory building, training, and clinical practice in psychiatry.
Topics: Humans; Psychiatry; Disease; Culture
PubMed: 37933139
DOI: 10.1177/13634615231205544 -
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Sep 2023Computational Psychopathology is an emerging discipline, which is based around the theoretical and mechanistic focus of explanatory psychopathology and computational...
Computational Psychopathology is an emerging discipline, which is based around the theoretical and mechanistic focus of explanatory psychopathology and computational psychiatry, and reflects the general move in psychiatric research away from whole disorders to component symptoms or transdiagnostic processes. In this Editorial, we present a brief summary of these disciplines and how they combine together to form a 'Computational Psychopathology', and present a brief possible taxonomy. We highlight the papers that form part of this Special Issue, along with their place in our putative taxonomy. We conclude this Editorial by highlighting the benefits of a Computational Psychopathology for research into mental health.
Topics: Humans; Mental Disorders; Psychopathology; Mental Health; Psychiatry
PubMed: 37076057
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105170 -
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Jul 2024
Topics: Humans; Child; Child Psychiatry; Psychology, Child; Psychology, Clinical
PubMed: 38770690
DOI: 10.1177/13591045241258258 -
Psychiatrische Praxis Jul 2023In the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy an understanding of manipulation can be found that often looks one-sidedly at the psychopathologies of a...
In the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy an understanding of manipulation can be found that often looks one-sidedly at the psychopathologies of a manipulator. Manipulation is often depicted as a deficient, egoistic form of communication that deceives and pressures the manipulated. However, in this paper, we aim to explore a more nuanced understanding of manipulation as a form of influence that can be both toxic and benevolent. To do so, we will use the arena of love as a field of experimentation, which offers opportunities to make meaningful distinctions regarding manipulation on the basis of different forms of love. We conclude that love is compatible with a benevolent manipulation.
Topics: Humans; Male; Female; Love; Germany; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy
PubMed: 37429281
DOI: 10.1055/a-2055-8739 -
The Neuroscientist : a Review Journal... Dec 2023The use of digital technologies is constantly growing around the world. The wider-spread adoption of digital technologies and solutions in the daily clinical practice in... (Review)
Review
The use of digital technologies is constantly growing around the world. The wider-spread adoption of digital technologies and solutions in the daily clinical practice in psychiatry seems to be a question of when, not if. We propose a synthesis of the scientific literature on digital technologies in psychiatry and discuss the main aspects of its possible uses and interests in psychiatry according to three domains of influence that appeared to us: 1) assist and improve current care: digital psychiatry allows for more people to have access to care by simply being more accessible but also by being less stigmatized and more convenient; 2) develop new treatments: digital psychiatry allows for new treatments to be distributed via apps, and practical guidelines can reduce ethical challenges and increase the efficacy of digital tools; and 3) produce scientific and medical knowledge: digital technologies offer larger and more objective data collection, allowing for more detection and prevention of symptoms. Finally, ethical and efficacy issues remain, and some guidelines have been put forth on how to safely use these solutions and prepare for the future.
Topics: Humans; Mental Health; Psychiatry
PubMed: 35658666
DOI: 10.1177/10738584221098603 -
L'Encephale Feb 2024
Topics: Humans; Circadian Rhythm; Drug Prescriptions; Psychiatry
PubMed: 37604717
DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2023.08.001