Clinical Philosophy

JULY 1, 2019

The 8 chapters of section five look holistically at the different life worlds of persons with different conditions (schizophrenia, mood disorders, hysteria, BPD, addictions, autism, eating disorders). Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience.

Schizophrenia 52

Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychiatric Disorder 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Clinical Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In his Jesus: The Village Psychiatrist , Donald Capps makes the to-me plausible case that several of Jesus's healings were of conversion disorders - or of what today we tend to call functional neurological disorders (FND). The point of what follows will be to argue that, were this the case, it would be deeply misguided.)

Psychotherapy 49

Psychotherapy Psychology Disorder Psychiatric 49