@jfeyaerts
psychologist & philosopher, assistant prof. clinical psychology @GhentUniversity. Co-organizer of the Too Mad to be True conferences. Interests in psychosis, delusions, phenomenology, mad studies, altered self/reality-experiences.
Our new article discussing the benefits of integrating insights from dynamical systems theory and phenomenological self-disturbance research to improve early identification and treatment of psychosis just appeared in @thelancet.com.
Freely available here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our invited commentary on Andrea Raballo and colleagues discussion of our work on the revised ipseity-disorder model is now published. We clarify some potential misunderstandings and highlight outstanding issues in phenomenological self-disturbance research. Freely available through link below.
“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”
Sofia Jeppsson ( @jeppsson.bsky.social ) discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/cogwheel-s...
Symposium on #Self Disorders at #ICHR2025
@ccrosenphd.bsky.social on 20 year outcome for #depersonalization Julia Lebovitz on #embodiment @jfeyaerts.bsky.social on transparency Anne Giersch on #time perception & Louis Sass’s discussion @theichr.bsky.social
Great symposium on self-disorders in schizophrenia at #SIRS2025 (@sirsofficial.bsky.social), spearheaded by @jfeyaerts.bsky.social, with exciting empirical findings presented by @ccrosenphd.bsky.social (20-year follow-up!) and Julia Lebovitz, and a stimulating discussion by Louis Sass.
My new book is now available, it is open access. I portray psychiatric diagnoses as being scientific despite not being natural kinds. I seek a middle ground between realism and constructivism by drawing upon various Kantian thinkers, especially Cassirer. #Philsci #Philpsy #Psychiatry #STS #Philsky
I think that phenomenologists often inflate the amount of feelings and experiences we usually have--although I do believe such experiences hold true for varieties of depersonalisation.
My focus here was rather on whether a sense of agency (or other subjectivity aspects) is a phenomenological feature of ordinary experience. Talk of feeling a "loss of agency" might led one to believe that a feeling of agency should normally be present. I argue against that idea.
Yes, I think this is right. For some people the "loss of agency" might be the most conspicuous feature; for others the experience of "ownership" or still other aspects might be more prominent.
How can we help people with depression who can't find anything to say? Through 'undemanding silence', argues my colleague Jae Ryeong Sul in his most recent article.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lacan:
"I would very much like to start off this new year, for which I offer you my best wishes, by telling you - The fun is over!"
Our first issue of 2025 is here, and is a wonderfully rich special issue guest edited by Lucienne Spencer, Matthew Broome & Giovanni Stanghellini entitled Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology #vol38issue1 Introduction available here free access doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky 1/15
our article discussing problems with the minimal self-view of self-disturbance in psychosis, and outlining an alternative transparency-account, is now freely available through the following link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/649FX...
Thanks a lot @schizosemia.bsky.social for this thoughtful and generous review of the latest edition of our Too Mad to be True conference. So heartening to read. @wtrax.bsky.social
It's interesting how all the people who complain about how disabilities or illnesses have become identities seem fine with people identifying as well, healthy, or normal. I think if anything there is a much larger identity politics of this latter sort.
This is important work towards the better integration of phenomenological and predictive coding approaches of primary delusions. Imo follow-up needed with phenomenologically more sensitive measures and theoretical work on application counterfactual learning to explain sense of reality.
Thanks Sohee!
Thanks Cherise!
Just received word that our Deluded By Experience project--a longitudinal study combining phenomenological theory, experience-sampling & qualitative research to identify the experiential mechanisms of delusion formation in psychosis--got accepted for funding by the FWO. Hooray! 🥳
Anyone what to do a symposium on self-diagnosis in psychiatry for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference? #philsci #philmed #philpsy
www.thebsps.org/annual-confe...
very much looking forward to hearing more about Tosquelles' critique of the notion of "outsider art" at this event tomorrow 11/12 @ Museum Dr Guislain! (this is my first bluesky post, test test)
www.museumdrguislain.be/nl/onview/ac...