YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden

Philosophical approaches to psychopharmacology have paved the way for an important but still largely unexplored area in the philosophy of psychiatry. Some of these approaches have addressed conceptual...

Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence

Autistic masking has emerged as a pivotal topic of contemporary debate, highlighting the concealment of one's authentic self – a process that often leads to inauthenticity. While the negative impacts...

YouTube video by Speculative Psychiatry Group

There can be no either/or in mental health — we must rigorously examine pharmaceutical and social solutions

Diferentes concepções de “saúde” e “doença” subjazem perspectivas medicalizantes ou críticas no campo da saúde mental. Neste ensaio, analiso concepções naturalistas (Boorse, Szasz) e normativistas (En...

“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”

Harm from these drugs is real. Let’s not cede the conversation to Kennedy.

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27-28 March 2025 King's College London & online Free to attend, registration required We are delighted to announce that this year the Sowerby Project for Philosophy and Medicine will host the fifth P...

Reevaluating the emphasis on efficacy vs risks

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A 3-step strategy of attacking medical psychiatry

This article introduces the special issue “Philosophy and Prehistory: New Perspectives on Minds, Art, and Culture.” The primary motivation for the issue was to create a space where philosophy and evol...

On the politics of desertion

Giulio Ongaro explores what this means for our approach to mental healthcare in a guest post and accompanying Q&A

Health update, plus a ramble on health, flourishing, efficacy of prayer etc.

I have been meaning to write something about my health.

Shaun Gallagher discusses his understanding of enactivism and how it relates to questions about embodiment, social institutions, and emerging technologies.

I argue that psychiatric researchers, clinicians, and the wider public actively regulate the minds of individuals with mental disorder through the prescriptive processes of mind-shaping (see Andrews i...

Trata-se da tradução do texto seminal de Matthew Ratcliffe The Feeling of Being (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2005, 12 (8-10):43-60), cuja importância para áreas teóricas como a Filosofia das Emo...

Klerman noted in 1977 that the term had evolved into a slogan used more for rhetorical impact than scientific clarification