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15Philosophy of psychopharmacology: smart pills, happy pills, and pepp pillsCambridge University Press. 2008.Psychopharmacology - a remarkable development -- Philosophical questions raised by psychopharmacology -- How to think about science, language, and medicine : classical, critical, and integrated perspectives -- Conceptual questions about psychotropics -- Explanatory questions about psychotropics -- Moral questions about psychotropics.
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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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10Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: expanding the open-access conversation on health carePhilosophy Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (1): 1-2. 2006.Natural philosophy once spanned the fields of philosophy, science, and medicine. Scientific disciplines and medical specialties have rapidly achieved independence, and the availability of the internet and open-access publishing promises a further expansion of knowledge. Nevertheless, a consideration of the grounding concepts and ethical principles that underlie health care remains paramount. It is timely, therefore, to contribute to the global conversation on health care with an open-access jour…Read more
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10Problems of Living: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Cognitive-Affective Science addresses philosophical questions related to problems of living, including questions about the nature of the brain-mind, reason and emotion, happiness and suffering, goodness and truth, and the meaning of life. It draws on critical, pragmatic, and embodied realism as well as moral naturalism, and brings arguments from metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics together with data from cognitive-affective scie…Read more
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9This study investigated the applicability of a novel instrument to assess parent–child attunement in free play interactions, in dyads with an infant with and without visual impairments. We here report the findings on the reliability and applicability of the newly developed Attune & Stimulate Mother–Infant 56-items Instrument in two separate samples: one with infants with VI and one with typically sighted infants. In addition, we assessed the contribution of parental sensitivity to attunement in …Read more
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7Randolph M. Nesse. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary PsychiatryEvolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 3 (2): 117-118. 2019.
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4Global Mental Health and Neuroethics (edited book)Elsevier. 2020.Global Mental Health and Neuroethics explores conceptual, ethical and clinical issues that have emerged with the expansion of clinical neuroscience into middle- and low-income countries. Conceptual issues covered include avoiding scientism and skepticism in global mental health, integrating evidence-based and value-based global medicine, and developing a welfarist approach to the practice of global psychiatry. Ethical issues addressed include those raised by developments in neurogenetics, cosmet…Read more
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3Philosophy of psychopharmacology : a naturalist approachDissertation, University of Stellenbosch. 2008.Thesis --Stellenbosch University, 2008
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Philosophy and cognitive-affective neurogeneticsIn Matthew Broome & Lisa Bortolotti (eds.), Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-VPsychological Medicine 40 1759-1765. 2010.
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What is a Mental Disorder? A Perspective from Cognitive-Affective ScienceCanadian Journal of Psychiatry 12 (58): 656-662. 2013.
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The Machine Speaks: Conversational AIs and the importance of effort to relationships of meaningJMIR Mental Health. forthcoming.The focus of debates about conversational AIs (CAIs) has largely been on social and ethical concerns that arise when we speak to machines. What is gained and what is lost when we replace our human interlocutors—including our human therapists— with AIs? Here, we focus instead on a distinct and growing phenomenon: letting machines speak for us. What is at stake when we replace our own efforts at interpersonal engagement with CAIs? The purpose of these technologies is, in part, to remove effort. Bu…Read more
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University of Cape TownProfessor
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |