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    Psychopathological Symptoms and Religious Experience: A Critique of Jackson and Fulford
    with Marek Marzanski
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 9 (4): 359-371. 2002.
    The boundary between spiritual experience and mental disorder remains unclear and should invite collaboration between psychiatry and other disciplines, including theology. Jackson and Fulford (1997), using the tools of analytic philosophy, have proposed a model allowing principled differentiation between spiritual experience and psychotic symptoms based on the personal values of the subject, a cognitive problem-solving model. Spiritual experience is described as positively evaluated psychotic ex…Read more
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    Anorexia, Welfare, and the Varieties of Autonomy: Judicial Rhetoric and the Law in Practice
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 17 (2): 159-162. 2010.
    In English medical law, it is something of an axiom that adult competent patients have an absolute right to refuse all and any medical treatment, including potentially life-saving and life-sustaining treatment. This legal proposition, which is embedded in the doctrine of consent, has for the last few decades been regarded as the expression of the philosophical principle of personal autonomy and ethical right of self-determination. The Western ethical and legal traditions places heavy emphasis on…Read more
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    Minding Your Language: A Response to Caroline Brett and Stephen Sykes
    with Marek Marzanski
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 9 (4): 383-385. 2002.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 9.4 (2002) 383-385 [Access article in PDF] Minding Your Language:A Response to Caroline Brett and Stephen Sykes Marek Marzanski and Mark Bratton THE PAPER BY Jackson and Fulford (1997), to which ours is a preliminary response, has opened up an important and much-needed conversation on the borderlands of theology, philosophy, and psychiatry. We are deeply grateful for lapidary and attentive respons…Read more
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    Mystical States or Mystical Life? Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu Perspectives
    with Marek Marzanski
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 9 (4): 349-351. 2002.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 9.4 (2002) 349-351 [Access article in PDF] Mystical States or Mystical Life?Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu Perspectives Marek Marzanski and Mark Bratton THIS IS AN ORIGINAL and conceptually precise paper. It is a significant attempt to bring religion and psychiatry into conversation. With particular reference to three Oriental epistemologies—Tibetan and Zen Buddhism and Tantric Hinduism—Caroline B…Read more