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This book (in Dutch) is an attempt to provide a conceptual framework that helps the reader to integrate the existential dimension of anxiety with other clinical and explanatory approaches to anxiety. The book is no longer in print. This... more
[AMAZON LINK BELOW TO BOOK ITSELF -- TOC and book intro in downloadable .pdf] "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." --John Steinbeck... more
This paper first identifies and then provides a novel analysis of an important feature of anorexia nervosa (AN) that has gone unrecognized in the philosophy of psychiatry literature. This feature is the discrepancy between first-personal... more
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Depuis le début des années 1990, les recherches interdisciplinaires au croi-sement entre philosophie et psychiatrie ont connu un formidable regain d'intérêt sur le plan international. Elles ont été stimulées par la mise en place d'une... more
In 1992, the experts of the World Health Organization decided to introduce a new diagnostic category. Possession Trance became recognized as a psychiatric disorder. The introduction of this new category prompted the clarification of its... more
Sass, like R. D. Laing before him, wants to make sense of schizophrenic discourse. In 'Paradoxes of delusion – Wittgenstein, Schreber and the schizophrenic mind' he uses Wittgenstein’s later work, particularly the Blue Book, to this... more
In this paper, I address the question whether mental disorders should be understood to be brain disorders and what conditions need to be met for a disorder to be rightly described as a brain disorder. I defend the view that mental... more
"Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry" by Vincenzo Di Nicola Part I: Trauma and Event Part II: Psychiatry of the Event This online blog of the American Philosophical Association is an overview of my work with French philosopher Alain... more
In this paper, I juxtapose the Symbol Grounding Problem and causal theories of reference. In the first part of the paper, I show some basic assumptions they share in order to show, in the second part, some difficulties implied by these... more
A critique of the 2014 APA Division 30 Definition of Hypnosis
This chapter is dedicated to Befindlichkeit, a concept expressed by Martin Heidegger’s work Being and Time (1927). Befindlichkeit means “disposition”, both in terms of being into situation and being situated. In order to explain why... more
This paper explores the content of the somniloquies of Dion McGregor, the most extensive sleep talker ever recorded, and compares these with dream content from normative male dreams on the Hall and van de Castle Content Scales (1966) and... more
The primary aims are to consider whether a range of paternalistic medical interventions can be justified in the treatment of factitious disorder (FD) and to show that the particularities of FD and its management make it an ideal... more
Sass, like R. D. Laing before him, wants to make sense of schizophrenic discourse. In 'Paradoxes of delusion – Wittgenstein, Schreber and the schizophrenic mind' he uses Wittgenstein’s later work, particularly the Blue Book, to this... more
Our title is an excerpt from a statement by Antonin Artaud, the poet, playwright, and actor, who was almost certainly schizophrenic. Born in Marseilles in 1896, Artaud died in Paris in 1948. In 1937 on a boat to Ireland, he had to be... more
This study present a collection of examples of verbatim language in dreams, with analyses of how this is altered relative to waking language. Grammar is well-preserved in these dreams while meaningfulness is distorted relative to waking... more
This issue contains reviews of the films Donnie Darko (2001), Lathe of Heaven (2002), and Russian Ark (2002).
Blog of the American Philosophical Association
http://blog.apaonline.org
Associate Editor: Nathan Eckstrand, PhD
"Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry"
by Vincenzo Di Nicola
Part I: Trauma and Event
Part II: Psychiatry of the Event
http://blog.apaonline.org
Associate Editor: Nathan Eckstrand, PhD
"Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry"
by Vincenzo Di Nicola
Part I: Trauma and Event
Part II: Psychiatry of the Event
For more than a decade, research studies on the various personality disorders have been carried out at an ever-expanding pace (Blashfield and McElroy, 1987; Gorton and Akhar, 1990). Factors promoting this research have included the... more
Most recent discussions of classification and diagnosis in psychiatry ignore the underlying methodologic and philosophic issues. The authors directly address these issues by redefining a classical approach that was already employed in... more
Blog of the American Philosophical Association
http://blog.apaonline.org
Associate Editor: Nathan Eckstrand, PhD
"Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry"
by Vincenzo Di Nicola
Part I: Trauma and Event
Part II: Psychiatry of the Event
http://blog.apaonline.org
Associate Editor: Nathan Eckstrand, PhD
"Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry"
by Vincenzo Di Nicola
Part I: Trauma and Event
Part II: Psychiatry of the Event
Grupo de Investigación Consolidado HERAF: Hermenéutica y Antropología Fenomenológica H69 de la Universidad de Zaragoza
This issue reviews 3 dream-themed films of Ginger Rogers: Tom, Dick and Harry, (1941); Lady in the Dark (1944); and It Had to Be You, (1947). These were made in the 1940’s, immediately after her collaborations with Fred Astaire. While all... more
Delusional mood is a well-recognized psychological state, often present in the prodromal stage of schizophrenia. Various phenomenological psychopathologists have proposed that delusional mood may not only precede but also contribute to... more
In their paper “Is psychopathy a mental disease?”, Thomas Nadelhoffer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argue that according to any plausible account of mental disorder, neural and psychological abnormalities correlated with psychopathy should... more
Blog of the American Philosophical Association
http://blog.apaonline.org
Associate Editor: Nathan Eckstrand, PhD
"Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry"
by Vincenzo Di Nicola
Part I: Trauma and Event
Part II: Psychiatry of the Event
http://blog.apaonline.org
Associate Editor: Nathan Eckstrand, PhD
"Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry"
by Vincenzo Di Nicola
Part I: Trauma and Event
Part II: Psychiatry of the Event
This issue contains reviews of Who Killed Jessie, World Traveler, and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
This issue contains reviews of Viva la Vie (Long Live Life ) 1984, Death Bed (1977) , and Beyond Dreams Door (1989)