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21Child development and the regulation of affect and cognition in consciousness: A view from object relations theoryIn Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton (eds.), The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect and Self-Organization, John Benjamins. pp. 205-222. 2000.
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20Alternative Perspectives on Psychiatric Validation: Dsm, Icd, Rdoc, and Beyond (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.In this important new book in the IPPP series, a group of leading thinkers in psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy offer alternative perspectives that address both the scientific and clinical aspects of psychiatric validation, emphasizing throughout their philosophical and historical considerations.
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18Les troubles psychiatriques et le modèle des espèces pratiquesPhilosophiques 33 (1): 81-97. 2006.Cet article explore la classification des troubles psychiatriques dans la perspective du modèle des espèces pratiques. En nous basant sur certains travaux en philosophie des sciences qui soutiennent que les éléments chimiques et les espèces biologiques ne possèdent pas de véritables essences, nous affirmons que les troubles psychiatriques ne devraient pas être compris, eux non plus, de façon essentialiste. Les troubles psychiatriques sont des « espèces pratiques », non des « espèces naturelles »…Read more
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17Validity, utility and reality: explicating Schaffner'sIn Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry Ii: Nosology, Oxford University Press. pp. 190. 2012.
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16A triptych on affective science: Response to the commentaryJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 28 (2): 444-453. 2008.Reply by the current authors to the comments made by Jaak Panksepps , James.A. Russell and Louise Sundararajan on the original article by Peter Zachar . I consider the utility of the concept of natural kind, and explore difficulties in applying it reliably. I examine categorical and dimensional approaches to affect with respect to both scientific realism and nominalist approaches to classification. I agree that eliminativist analogies are beneficial but argue that they cannot fully account for t…Read more
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16Mental Disorder, Methodology, and MeaningPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 24 (1): 45-48. 2017.In this brief commentary, I would like to discuss two reservations I have about the article by Bergner and Bunford. Before doing so let me make some preliminary remarks.Their hypothesis that the concept of disability unites the various mental disorder constructs that have been proposed over the centuries and across cultures is reasonable and accords well with common sense. The concept of disability does a lot of good work in helping us to understand mental disorders.With respect to the authors’ …Read more
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16Vice, Mental Disorder, and the Role of Underlying Pathological ProcessesPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 15 (1): 27-29. 2008.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Vice, Mental Disorder, and the Role of Underlying Pathological ProcessesNancy Nyquist Potter (bio) and Peter Zachar (bio)Keywordsresponsibility, virtue theory, cultural norms, psychopathologyThe issues discussed by John Sadler are among the most complicated in the philosophy of psychiatry, if for no other reason than that they highlight an area where disciplinary fault lines between clinical psychiatry/ psychology and philosophy seem…Read more
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15The Psychological Construction of Emotion – A Non-Essentialist Philosophy of ScienceSage Publications: Emotion Review 14 (1): 3-14. 2021.Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 3-14, January 2022. Advocates for the psychological construction of emotion view themselves as articulating a non-essentialist alternative to basic emotion theory's essentialist notion of affect programs. Psychological constructionists have also argued that holding essentialist assumptions about emotions engenders misconceptions about the psychological constructionist viewpoint. If so, it is important to understand what psychological constructionists mean…Read more
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15Diagnostic Criteria, Psychological Tests, and Ratings Scales: Extending the HistoryPhilosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 30 (3): 253-254. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Diagnostic Criteria, Psychological Tests, and Ratings Scales: Extending the HistoryPeter Zachar, PhD (bio)Le moigne narrates a history of the development of psychiatric ratings scales as hybrids between psychological tests and diagnostic categories. In his telling, psychological tests seek to quantify population-based traits on which every person has a position and which tend to be conceptualized as being stable. Personality traits a…Read more
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15A Partial (and Speculative) Reconstruction of the Biological Basis of EmotionalityEmotion Review 4 (3): 249-250. 2012.It is argued that Mason and Capitanio (2012) are not clear on what would count as a “basic emotion,” and their reconstruction appears more geared toward emotionality in general. Their notion that species-typical outcome is the criterion of basicness requires making speculative assumptions about what is expected and average. Suggestions about an epigenetic approach to social construction of emotionality are also offered
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14Comment: Psychiatry, Scientific Laws, and Realism about EntitiesIn Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 5--38. 2008.
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13Recovery and the partitioning of scientific authority in psychiatryIn Abraham Rudnick (ed.), Recovery of People with Mental Illness: Philosophical and Related Perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 203. 2012.
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9Psychiatric Comorbidity: More Than a Kuhnian Anomaly: AragonaMassimiliano.Role of comorbidity in the crisis of the current psychiatric classification systemPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16 (1): 13-22. 2009.
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8Louis Charland: 1958–2021Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 28 (4): 295-296. 2021.A professor of philosophy at Western University in Ontario, with joint appointments in Philosophy and the School of Health Studies, Louis Charland unexpectedly passed away on May 9, 2021. In addition to Western, he taught at the Universities of Toronto, McGill, and Concordia. He had visiting appointments at Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion in Perth, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berl…Read more
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3Inspired by Differing Traditions—Views on Christian Democracy in Two Governments of Hungary After 1989In Martin Schlag & Boglárka Koller (eds.), Rethinking Subsidiarity: Multidisciplinary Reflections on the Catholic Social Tradition, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 151-163. 2024.In recent decades, Christian democracy has had a major impact on Hungarian politics. Both the first freely elected Hungarian Prime Minister, József Antall, and the current Prime Minister have favored the term Christian Democrat and have placed themselves in the heritage of this intellectual movement. This study tries to analyze the similarities and differences between the approaches of the two Hungarian politicians and explore their roots in the era between the two world wars. The study focuses …Read more
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2Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry: A Philosophical AnalysisJohn Benjamins Publishing. 2000.This interdisciplinary work addresses the question, "What role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind?" It offers readers something unique both by systematically comparing the writings of eliminativist philosophers of mind with the writings of the most committed proponents of biological psychiatry, and by critically scrutinizing their shared anti-anthropomorphism from the standpoint of a diagnostician and therapist. Contradict…Read more
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1Chapter 5. Psychiatric Disorders and the Imperfect Community: A Nominalist HDAIn Luc Faucher & Denis Forest (eds.), Defining Mental Disorders: Jerome Wakefield and his Critics, Mit Press. 2021.
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1The incredible insecurity of psychiatric nosologyIn Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008.
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Comments: Validity, utility and reality: explicating Schaffner's pragmatismIn Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry Ii: Nosology, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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Real kinds but no true taxonomy : an essay in psychiatric systematicsIn Kenneth S. Kendler & Josef Parnas (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008.
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When Self-consciousness breaks: Alien voices and inserted thoughts by G. Lynn Stephens George GrahamConsciousness and Emotion 3 (2): 273-280. 2002.
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Metaphysical problems in psychiatric classification and nosologyIn Şerife Tekin & Robyn Bluhm (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, Bloomsbury. 2019.
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Technological rationality in psychiatry : immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternativeIn James Phillips (ed.), Philosophical perspectives on technology and psychiatry, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Reconciliation as Compromise and the Management of RageIn Nancy Potter (ed.), Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships, Oxford University Press. pp. 67--81. 2006.
Peter Zachar
Auburn University Montgomery
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Auburn University MontgomeryProfessor