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23Recent criticism of psychiatric nosology: a reviewPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 1 (3): 193-200. 1994.
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42Second Thoughts: Revoking Decisions Over One’s Own FuturePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4): 787-801. 1994.
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81Relational Individualism and Feminist TherapyHypatia 11 (3). 1996.My aim here is to clarify the practice of honoring and validating the relational model of self which plays an important role in feminist therapy. This practice rests on a tangle of psychological claims, moral and political values, and mental health norms which require analysis. Also, severe pathology affects the relative "relationality" of the self. By understanding it we can better understand the senses of autonomy compatible with and even required for a desired relationality
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25Lumps and Bumps:Kantian Faculty Psychology, Phrenology, and Twentieth-Century Psychiatric ClassificationPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3 (1): 1-14. 1996.Because other cultures classify mental disorders very differently from ours, it behooves us to inquire into the philosophical and cultural sources of our own guiding nosological categories. This paper is a philosophical exploration into the historical and theoretical bases of the late nineteenth-century, Kraepelinian division between disorders of mood or affect, and schizophrenia, in which our present day nosological categories are rooted. By tracing the early nosologists’ divisions into eightee…Read more
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15Commentary on "Psychopathy, Other-Regarding Moral Beliefs, and Responsibility"Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3 (4): 287-289. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Commentary on “Psychopathy, Other-Regarding Moral Beliefs, and Responsibility”Jennifer Radden (bio)Fields’s line of reasoning may be summarized, though to do so is to lose much that is nice, and important, in the details. He begins by distinguishing the kind of disorder we are dealing with. Psychopathy is a personality disorder: an unchanging, trait-based condition, not a mental disease or illness. Then he asks why we might judge the…Read more
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31Pathologically divided minds, synchronic unity and models of selfJournal of Consciousness Studies 5 (5-6): 658-672. 1998.In this paper, I explore the implications of adopting one model of self rather than another in respect to one particular feature of our mental life. The need to explain synchronic unity in normal subjectivity, and also to explain the apparent and puzzling absence of synchronic unity in certain symptoms of severe mental disorder, I show, becomes more pressing with one particular model. But in the process of developing that explanation we learn something about subjectivity and perhaps also somethi…Read more
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12Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and PersonalityPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 492-495. 2000.
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2Love and Loss in Freud's Mourning and Melancholia: A RereadingIn M. Levine (ed.), The Analytic Freud, Routledge. pp. 211--30. 2000.
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6An internal racismIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Bioethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 16--5. 2002.
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77The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva (edited book)Oup Usa. 2002.Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth intr…Read more
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65Psychiatric ethicsBioethics 16 (5). 2002.Psychiatric ethics spans several overlapping domains, including the guidelines for ethical research in psychiatry, the professional ethics required in the practice of psychiatry, and a broader set of moral and ethical problems and dilemmas distinctive to, or at least magnified by, the mental health care setting. Reviewed here are selected issues arising in the last two domains, some seemingly inevitable components of mental disorder and its cultural history and others resultant from recent chang…Read more
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47Review of “passionate engines: What emotions reveal about mind and artificial intelligence” by Craig DeLancey (review)Consciousness and Emotion 4 (1): 143-148. 2003.
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495The Pragmatics of Psychiatry and the Psychiatry of Cross-Cultural SufferingPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 10 (1): 63-66. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10.1 (2003) 63-66 [Access article in PDF] The Pragmatics of Psychiatry and the Psychiatry of Cross-Cultural Suffering Jennifer Radden I AM IN SUBSTANTIAL AGREEMENT with many of the conclusions David Brendel draws in his thoughtful discussion. Misleading language aside, I particularly applaud his use of my plea for ontological descriptivism to support clinical practice, which respects, as he puts i…Read more
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591Is This Dame Melancholy?: Equating Today's Depression and Past MelancholiaPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 10 (1): 37-52. 2003.The theoretical implications of equating the melancholic states of past eras with today's depression are explored. These include the presuppositions of the descriptive psychiatry so influential in twentieth century classification, which attempts to identify and describe mental disorders without reference to underlying causes. It also includes claims made about different forms of masked, and non-Western depression, and the new "drug cartography" assigning psychiatric categories based on psychopha…Read more
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75Learning from disunityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 10 (4): 357-359. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10.4 (2003) 357-359 [Access article in PDF] Learning From Disunity Jennifer Radden In describing his four cases, Lloyd Wells (2003) throws out a challenge. He asks his readers to recognize similarities between their own more ordinary self-identity and the discontinuous narrative and seeming absence of a steady authorial subject resulting from disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, and Multip…Read more
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136The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2004.This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors aim to define this exciting field and to highlight the philosophical assumptions and issues that underlie psychiatric theory and practice, the category of mental disorder, and rationales for its social, clinical and legal treatment. As a branch of medicine and a healing practice, psychiatry relies on presuppositions that a…Read more
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82Identity: Personal identity, characterization identity, and mental disorderIn The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 133--46. 2004.
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Defining persecutory paranoiaIn Man Cheung Chung, Bill Fulford & George Graham (eds.), Reconceiving Schizophrenia, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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1Into the darkness: Losing identity with dementiaIn Julian C. Hughes, Stephen J. Louw & Steven R. Sabat (eds.), Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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338Epidemic Depression and Burtonian MelancholyPhilosophical Papers 36 (3): 443-464. 2007.Data indicate the ubiquity and rapid increase of depression wherever war, want and social upheaval are found. The goal of this paper is to clarify such claims and draw conceptual distinctions separating the depressive states that are pathological from those that are normal and normative responses to misfortune. I do so by appeal to early modern writing on melancholy by Robert Burton, where the inchoate and boundless nature of melancholy symptoms are emphasized; universal suffering is separated f…Read more
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Virtue ethics as professional ethics: the case of psychiatryIn Rebecca L. Walker & Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Working virtue: virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems, Oxford University Press. pp. 113--134. 2007.
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100Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression (edited book)Oup Usa. 2009.In Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression. The chapters are ordered into three categories: those about intellectual and medical history of melancholy and depression; those that emphasize aspects of the moral, psychological and medical features of these concepts; and finally, those that explore the sad and apprehensive mood states long associated with melancholy and depressive subjectivity. A newly written introdu…Read more
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88Janet Farrell Smith, 1941-2009Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 82 (5). 2009.
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Thinking about the repair manual : technique and technology in psychiatryIn James Phillips (ed.), Philosophical perspectives on technology and psychiatry, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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42Insightlessness, the Deflationary TurnPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 17 (1): 81-84. 2010.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Insightlessness, the Deflationary TurnJennifer Radden (bio)Keywordsinsightlessness, deflationary turn, Harry Stack Sullivan, open placebos, space of reasonsMarga Reimer argues that treatment compliance in patients who are without any, or complete, insight into psychotic symptoms may be neither particularly abnormal nor entirely unreasonable. In broad sympathy with these conclusions, I wish only to add a couple of ancillary observatio…Read more
University of Oxford
DPhil, 1976
Areas of Specialization
Mental Illness |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Misc |
Psychopathology |
Philosophy of Psychiatry |