Philosophy & Psychiatry (AAPP)

And here’s an accompanying substack post providing an overview of the discussion: psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-philosop…

A new paper from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup (and yours truly) on the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of the framework. Recommended reading for anyone interested in questions of classification and psychopathology! Here’s the journal article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Our Dec 2025 special issue on Epistemology and Mental Health is now available online, exploring issues such as addiction, evolutionary psychiatry, delusions, autism, family therapy, psychoanalysis, and diagnosis muse.jhu.edu/issue/56122

Karl Jaspers Award is given for the best unpublished paper in the area of philosophy of psychiatry by a trainee in the disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, or psychology. Deadline for submission for 2025 Karl Jaspers Award is Sunday, December 7, 2025 aapp.press.jhu.edu/jaspers

What are the comceptual disagreements underlying polarizev perspectives om mental health? Professor David zroe and I have published this analysis:

“The Rumpelstiltskin effect: therapeutic repercussions of clinical diagnosis” — published in BJPsych Bulletin cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Clinicians across medicine are familiar with an odd feature of descriptive diagnoses: they can bring patients real relief and provide an explanation, even without offering causes. In a new paper, @AlanLevinovitz and I call this the Rumpelstiltskin effect. Links below.

Very excited to announce the publication of a new article, with @awaisaftab, in @TheBJPsych Bulletin, in which we coin a new term for the therapeutic effects of official diagnoses: The Rumpelstiltskin Effect.

On a great summerday, I caught my first big cod and had my first Jama paper published: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Grateful for this positive review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Tom Harrison.   Aftab “condenses an understanding of psychiatry that everyone working in the field would benefit from”   cambridge.org/core/journals/…

For accompanying commentaries and response from authors, see: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55105

“Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research” by @MiguelNundePGor and @pablolopezsilva in the latest issue of PPP is currently open access for 2 weeks, along with accompanying commentaries muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Is it time to bring back 'natural philosophy'? Find out by listening to @danfalk's audio report on the recent @JohnsHopkins workshop on the topic, held in Baltimore in May, organised by Sean Carroll abc.net.au/listen/program…

1/22 (Starting from today I will be briefly summarizing the chapters of the newly published volume on personality disorders) In Chapter 1 Peter Zachar tells a fascinating and multifacted story of the notion of personality disorder in psychology and psychopathology. Link: 👇👇👇

Our June 2025 issue is currently available online and includes articles on topics such as 4E cognition in mental health research, CBT and stoicism, grief as identity crisis, spatial atmospheres, and the recognition demand. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55105

Karl Jaspers Award is given for the best unpublished paper in the area of philosophy of psychiatry by a trainee in the disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, or psychology. Deadline for submission for 2025 Karl Jaspers Award is Sunday, December 7, 2025 aapp.press.jhu.edu/jaspers

Kicking off with the most recent: a target article (+ replies to commentaries) with @pablolopezsilva in @philpsychpsy offering a critical mapping of key trends in 4E Mental Health and their distinct contributions to mental health research and politics: muse.jhu.edu/article/964179.

Thrilled to see some more work out from the past two years as a postdoc in Utrecht, Granada, and Rijeka! Deeply grateful to Annemarie Kalis, @VictorDezCastro, @MarkoJurjako, and others who have made this incredible time possible. Here’s a short 🧵summarizing the recent outputs!

A chapter of mine devoted to Marsha Linehan's DBT and Thomas R. Lynch's RO-DBT read in existential and spiritual terms of Paul Tillich has just been published online by @CambridgeUP in a volume edited by Peter Zachar and truly yours... The link: bit.ly/44oLfwS

Happy to see our paper with @MiguelNundePGor 'Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research' finally out in @philpsychpsy including comments by Shaun Gallagher and Kris Nielsen - muse.jhu.edu/issue/55105 @arq_deldelirio @uvalpochile