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75The missing self in scientific psychiatrySynthese 196 (6): 2197-2215. 2019.Various traditions in mental health care, such as phenomenological, and existential and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, implicitly or explicitly acknowledge that a disruption of the self, or the person, or the agent is among the common denominators of different mental disorders. They often emphasize the importance of understanding patients as reasonsresponsive, in their full mental health relevant complexity, if their mental disorder is to be treated successfully. The centrality of the conce…Read more
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14Review of "Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds" (review)Metapsychology Online Reviews 11 (11). 2008.
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1383The Missing Self in Hacking's Looping EffectsIn H. Kincaid & J. Sullivan (eds.), Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds, Mit Press. 2014., Looping Effects, the Self, Psychopathology
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171Self-Insight in the Time of Mood Disorders: After the Diagnosis, Beyond the TreatmentPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 21 (2): 139-155. 2014.This paper explores the factors that contribute to the degree of a mood disorder patient’s self- insight, defined here as her understanding of the particular contingencies of her life that are responsive to her personal identity, interpersonal relationships, illness symptoms, and the relationship between these three necessary components of her lived experience. I consider three factors: (i) the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), (ii) the DSM culture, and (iii) the cognitive…Read more
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15Mad Narratives: Exploring Self-Constitutions Through the Diagnostic Looking GlassDissertation, York University. 2010.In “Mad Narratives: Self-Constitutions Through the Diagnostic Looking Glass,” by using narrative approaches to the self, I explore how the diagnosis of mental disorder shapes personal identities and influences flourishing. My particular focus is the diagnosis grounded on the criteria provided by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I develop two connected accounts pertaining to the self and mental disorder. I use the memoirs and personal stories written by the subjects w…Read more
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903“Will I Be Pretty, Will I Be Rich?”: The Missing Self in Antidepressant CommercialsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 13 (5). 2013.No abstract
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13 Yıl Sonra "insani Türlerin Döngüsel Etkileri": Ian Hacking Üzerine Bir İncelemeFelsefe Tartismalari 42 58-66. 2009.
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12Review of "Dimensional Models of Personality Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V" (review)Metapsychology Online Reviews 13 (17). 2009.
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946New Directions in Philosophy of MedicineIn James Marcum (ed.), Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 343-367. forthcoming.The purpose of this chapter is to describe what we see as several important new directions for philosophy of medicine. This recent work (i) takes existing discussions in important and promising new directions, (ii) identifies areas that have not received sufficient and deserved attention to date, and/or (iii) brings together philosophy of medicine with other areas of philosophy (including bioethics, philosophy of psychiatry, and social epistemology). To this end, the next part focuses on what we…Read more
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1010Hyponarrativity and Context-Specific Limitations of the DSM-5Public Affairs Quarterly 29 (1). 2015.his article develops a set of recommendations for the psychiatric and medical community in the treatment of mental disorders in response to the recently published fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, that is, DSM-5. We focus primarily on the limitations of the DSM-5 in its individuation of Complicated Grief, which can be diagnosed as Major Depression under its new criteria, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). We argue that the hyponarrativity of the …Read more
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State University of New York (SUNY)Upstate Medical University, Center for Bioethics and HumanitiesAssociate Professor
Syracuse, NY, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |