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Recent reviews of interest at Metapsychology

Submitted by kmc on Tue, 11/12/2019 - 20:15

Metapsychology.net has published some reviews relevant to philosophy and psychiatry.

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Review – Risk and Reasoning in Clinical Diagnosis
by Cym Anthony Ryle
Oxford University Press, 2019
Review by Douglas W. Heinrichs M.D.

http://metapsychology.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=8363&cn=139

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Review - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
by Richard Gipps, Michael Lacewing (editors)
Oxford University Press, 2019
Review by Sebastian Petzolt, DPhil
http://metapsychology.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=8358&cn=394

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Review – Delusions and Beliefs

New Psagacity interview with Prof. Jon Tsou

Submitted by kmc on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 20:21

Check out the new Psagacity interview with Prof. Jon Tsou, associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University.

Prof. Tsou discusses numerous topics in philosophy of psychiatry, including addiction, the anti-psychiatry movement, and the intersection between philosophy of science and philosophy of psychiatry.

https://vimeopro.com/user24832613/psagacity/video/365971319

New members on AAPP Executive Council

Submitted by kmc on Sat, 10/19/2019 - 20:35

The AAPP Executive Council has 2 new members! We are happy to welcome them.

Awais Aftab, MD works at Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare. He was recently a winner of the Jaspers Award. He writes for Psychiatric Times and blogs at A Myth in Creation.

Phoebe Friesen, Ph.D. recently joined the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University. She recently held a postdoc at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford.

New Postdoc in Philosophy and Mental Disorder

Submitted by kmc on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 20:41

The Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University is advertising a postdoc in Philosophy and Mental Disorder, starting Sept 1, 2020.

This is the first official philosophy and psychiatry postdoc in the USA, and shows the growth of the field.

Details are available here:  https://philjobs.org/job/show/13562

AAPP Members can blog with AAPP

Submitted by kmc on Sat, 10/12/2019 - 20:48

AAPP members! Do you want to promote your recent publication or forthcoming event? Do you want to start a conversation on philosophy and psychiatry? You can guest blog here!

The AAPP Executive Committee is working on a membership drive to bring more people into AAPP. This involves spelling out the benefits of membership.

One benefit is that AAPP members can post guest blog entries here on the AAPP blog. We have over 1500 followers on the blog, and blog entries reach many other people too. 

If you want to guest blog please email Christian Perring at cperring@yahoo.com

AAPP 2020 Call For Abstracts: Deadline Oct 15, 2019

Submitted by kmc on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 01:56

 

2020 AAPP Annual Conference: CALL FOR ABSTRACTSPhiladelphia PA: Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, 2020 Intuitions Meet Experiments: Methods in Philosophy of Psychiatry


Keynote Speakers: 

Edouard Machery, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh

Miriam Solomon, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy at Temple University

Details at https://philosophyandpsychiatry.org/meetings-conferences/
Deadline is October 15, 2019

The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, reviewed by Scott Waterman

Submitted by kmc on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 02:17

Review – The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry
by Serife Tekin and Robyn Bluhm (Editors)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Review by G. Scott Waterman

Metapsychology Online Reviews
Apr 16th 2019 (Volume 23, Issue 16)

http://metapsychology.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=8248&cn=394

 

AAPP Karl Jaspers Award 2019 goes to Phoebe Friesen

Submitted by kmc on Thu, 01/24/2019 - 02:20

The Karl Jaspers Award Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP) is delighted to announce the 2019 winner of its annual competition. From among 45 submissions, Phoebe Friesen’s manuscript, titled “Expanding Outcome Measures in Schizophrenia Research: Does RDoC Pose a Threat?,” was selected as the best paper by a student, trainee, or early-career academic on a topic in the philosophy of psychiatry. Dr. Friesen received her Ph.D. in philosophy in 2018 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow

Karl Jaspers Award 2018

Submitted by kmc on Tue, 03/13/2018 - 02:22

 

We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2018 AAPP Karl Jaspers Award is

Awais Aftab, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Cente, for his paper “Social Misuse of Disorder Designation: Exploring Dysfunction and Harm-Based Conceptual Defenses.”

Honorable mention also goes to Stephen Gadsby, Department of Philosophy, Monash University, for his submission, “Anorexia Nervosa, Delusional Beliefs and Overvalued Ideas.”

The AAPP Jaspers Committee