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55Philosophy and cognitive neuropsychiatryPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 6 (3): 217-221. 1999.
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25Unconscious habit systems in compulsive and impulsive disordersBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 141-141. 2014.
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39Social anxiety disorder and the psychobiology of self-consciousnessFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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47Cognitive Science and the UnconsciousAmerican Psychiatric Press. 1997.Examines those aspects of the unconscious mind most relevant to the psychiatric practitioner, including unconscious processing of affective and traumatic...
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13Maternal participant experience in a South African birth cohort study enrolling healthy pregnant women and their infantsPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 11 3. 2016.BackgroundCritical to conducting high quality research is the ability to attract and retain participants, especially for longitudinal studies. Understanding participant experiences and motivators or barriers to participating in clinical research is crucial. There are limited data on healthy participant experiences in longitudinal research, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This study aims to investigate quantitatively participant experiences in a South African birth cohort study.…Read more
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92Philosophy and Obsessive–Compulsive DisorderPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 19 (4): 339-342. forthcoming.
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22The Philosophy of EvilPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 12 (3): 261-263. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 12.3 (2005) 261-263 [Access article in PDF] The Philosophy of Evil Dan J. Stein Keywords philosophy, evil, self-deception, psychopathy, narcissism, sadism Kubarych (2005) first draws on Peck (1983) to suggest a distinction between psychopaths who have no conscience and therefore no need for self-deception, and evil narcissists who use self-deception to keep the emotional consequences of their crim…Read more
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94Sadistic cruelty and unempathic evil: Psychobiological and evolutionary considerationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (3): 242-242. 2006.Understanding the origins of evil behaviour is one of our most important intellectual tasks. A distinction can perhaps be drawn between overt sadistic cruelty and the lack of empathy to suffering that is a hallmark of evil. There is increasing data available on the prevalence, proximal psychobiological underpinnings, and distal evolutionary basis for these contrasting phenomena.
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19Disorder and Deviance: Where to Draw the Boundaries?Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 21 (3): 261-265. 2014.Last updated - 2020-01-06.
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28Unconscious influences on decision making: Neuroimaging and neuroevolutionary perspectivesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (1): 23-24. 2014.
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23A Neural Network Approach to Obsessive- Compulsive DisorderJournal of Mind and Behavior 15 (3): 223-238. 1994.A central methodological innovation in cognitive science has been the development of connectionist or neural network models of psychological phenomena. These models may also comprise a theoretically integrative and methodologically rigorous approach to psychiatric phenomena. In this paper we employ connectionist theory to conceptualize obsessive-compulsive disorder . We discuss salient phenomenological and neurobiological findings of the illness, and then reformulate these using neural network m…Read more
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University of Cape TownProfessor
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |