Philosophy & Psychiatry (AAPP)

Kicking off with the most recent: a target article (+ replies to commentaries) with @pablolopezsilva in @philpsychpsy offering a critical mapping of key trends in 4E Mental Health and their distinct contributions to mental health research and politics: muse.jhu.edu/article/964179.

On a great summerday, I caught my first big cod and had my first Jama paper published: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Grateful for this positive review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Tom Harrison.   Aftab “condenses an understanding of psychiatry that everyone working in the field would benefit from”   cambridge.org/core/journals/…

For accompanying commentaries and response from authors, see: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55105

“Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research” by @MiguelNundePGor and @pablolopezsilva in the latest issue of PPP is currently open access for 2 weeks, along with accompanying commentaries muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Is it time to bring back 'natural philosophy'? Find out by listening to @danfalk's audio report on the recent @JohnsHopkins workshop on the topic, held in Baltimore in May, organised by Sean Carroll abc.net.au/listen/program…

1/22 (Starting from today I will be briefly summarizing the chapters of the newly published volume on personality disorders) In Chapter 1 Peter Zachar tells a fascinating and multifacted story of the notion of personality disorder in psychology and psychopathology. Link: 👇👇👇

Our June 2025 issue is currently available online and includes articles on topics such as 4E cognition in mental health research, CBT and stoicism, grief as identity crisis, spatial atmospheres, and the recognition demand. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55105

Karl Jaspers Award is given for the best unpublished paper in the area of philosophy of psychiatry by a trainee in the disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, or psychology. Deadline for submission for 2025 Karl Jaspers Award is Sunday, December 7, 2025 aapp.press.jhu.edu/jaspers

Thrilled to see some more work out from the past two years as a postdoc in Utrecht, Granada, and Rijeka! Deeply grateful to Annemarie Kalis, @VictorDezCastro, @MarkoJurjako, and others who have made this incredible time possible. Here’s a short 🧵summarizing the recent outputs!

A chapter of mine devoted to Marsha Linehan's DBT and Thomas R. Lynch's RO-DBT read in existential and spiritual terms of Paul Tillich has just been published online by @CambridgeUP in a volume edited by Peter Zachar and truly yours... The link: bit.ly/44oLfwS

Happy to see our paper with @MiguelNundePGor 'Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research' finally out in @philpsychpsy including comments by Shaun Gallagher and Kris Nielsen - muse.jhu.edu/issue/55105 @arq_deldelirio @uvalpochile

The latest issue of Lancet Psychiatry contains a profile of me, in which they describe me as “one of the discipline’s foremost public intellectuals”!!! thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff A post discussing @RandyNesse’s hypothesis of cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophreni…

The Politics of Conceptual and Critical Psychiatry Excerpts from the epilogue of my book “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (OUP, 2024), in which I am asked questions by Richard Gipps (@DrGipps) and Nev Jones (@viscidula ) psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-politics…

See commentaries by James Phillips and Konrad Banicki (@Castalia1981 ), and response by @SahanikaR in the PPP issue, also open access through May 3rd. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54170

The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Part I: Dismantling the Legend of CBT muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… Part II: The Challenge of Psychopharmaceuticals muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… Sahanika Ratnayake (@SahanikaR ) Open access through May 3rd!

From @awaisaftab - this is such a superb review - so well written I almost feel I should give up writing! Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age, by @awaisaftab psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-memoir-for…

Very excited about the upcoming @INPPOnline conference at Leipzig 🧐🧐🧐 @aapp_PhilPsych @philpsychpsy @JournalPHP @awaisaftab @JeroticStefan @SameiHuda

Sahanika Ratnayake (@SahanikaR) does not stop! Just after having published for @philpsychpsy (see muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…) she is all ready to discuss the Dodo Bird Problem and the boundaries of therapy (the IAPIS series, @JagiellonskiUni). To register: forms.gle/sNqqDVG4WvrekZ…