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Conversations in Critical Psychiatry
Phenomenology, Power, Polarization, and Psychosis
April 13, 2021
Patient perspectives in academic discourse in psychiatry have historically been a neglected area. What are some of the consequences and implications of this absence? How has this affected both psychiatry and those who have been excluded? These questions and more are discussed.
Exploring Psychiatry and the Human Condition: Joanna Moncrieff, MD
March 25, 2021
How can we ensure that our attributions of meaning are not simply instances of creative storytelling?
Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD
March 12, 2021
Are current systems of mental health care alienating children and adults from the meaning inherent in their own emotional difficulties?
A People’s History of Depression: Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
March 05, 2021
The story of depression, through time and around the world.
A Psychiatrist Weaving Conceptual and Empirical Work
February 20, 2021
An interview with Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, vice-chair of the American Psychiatric Association DSM Steering Committee, author of more than 1200 articles, and one of the highest-cited researchers in psychiatry.
There and Back Again: Joseph Pierre, MD
January 08, 2021
How can the best insights of mainstream and critical psychiatry be brought together?
Integration, Common Principles, and the Future of Psychotherapy: Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD
December 04, 2020
How can psychotherapy become a mature science?
The Bureaucratic Takeover of American Psychiatry: George Dawson, MD, DFAPA
November 13, 2020
In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr Dawson discusses how the rise of managed care industry and associated business forces have led to a profound deterioration of psychiatric practice environment in the United States.
Sense-Making and the Enactive Turn in Psychiatry: Sanneke de Haan, PhD
October 23, 2020
In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr de Haan discusses her enactive approach to psychiatry which applies insights from enactivism to help conceptualize and navigate the immense complexity of factors that contribute to psychiatric disorders, and articulates the enactive view of psychiatric disorders as disorders of sense-making.
3E Approach to Psychopathology: Kristopher Nielsen, PhD
October 23, 2020
In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr Nielsen discusses his approach to psychiatry which sees mental disorders as dysfunctions in the behavioral and experiential processes representing “sticky tendencies” in the human brain-body-environment system.