Philosophical Psychopathology: DSM-5 as a bridge.

Friday, 3 January 2014

DSM-5 as a bridge.

A new paper has been published by the Crossing Dialogues Association on the interdisciplinary debate on the DSM-5 (the new American psychiatric classification). Published in Italian, this paper critically discusses the relationship between current psychiatric nosography (the DSM-5) and the neurosciences. The title is: “Un ponte verso nuovi approcci diagnostici che rischia il collasso”, and the link is: http://www.sipnei.it/index.php/pubblicazioni/pneinews/itemlist/category/34-pneinews-2013

The Italian Philosophy of Psychopathology

Graham and Stephens (1994) distinguish three ways of doing philosophical psychopathology: the first uses clinical findings to support ideas in philosophy of mind; the second is concerned with the experiential and ethical dimensions of psychopathology; the third looks at methodological issues in the scientific field of psychopathology. In Italy there is a long-lasting and strong tradition of philosophically oriented psychopathology (mainly in the mainstream of phenomenological thinking) and a more recent but very interesting debate in philosophy of mind discussing psychopathological, cognitive and neurophysiological clinical and research findings. The philosophy of psychopathology presented herein is mainly related to the third of Graham and Stephens’ ways of doing philosophical psychopathology; indeed, it is above all a methodological approach to psychopathology (closely linked to the philosophy of science but also opened to other disciplines) that eventually aims to improve psychopathological practice. The first Italian Chair of Philosophy of Psychopathology has been held in Rome in the year 2004, at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Sapienza University.

Friday, 3 January 2014

DSM-5 as a bridge.

Liam Keating - Associative and oppositional thinking