On the 2nd of June 2016 the Philosophy of Psychiatry work in progress day took place at Lancaster University. The following papers were presented:
Reinier Schuur: “Wakefield’s Harmful Dysfunction Account of Mental Disorder as a Jacksonian Conceptual Analysis”
Hane Maung: “Psychiatric Formulation as Causal Explanation”
Kevin Jones: “Shifting Conceptualisations of Mental Disorder 1930–1960”
Joel Krueger: “Psychopathology beyond the Head”
Anna Boncompagni: “Doubting the Indubitable: Philosophy and the Loss of Common Sense”
Moujan Mirdamadi: “Phenomenological Approaches to Mental illness across Cultures: A Case for Iranian Dysphoria”
Anna Bergqvist: “Value, Perspective and Integration: Reassessing Narrative Selfhood in Borderline Personality Disorder”
Claudia Cristalli: “Further Reflections on Psychophysics: The Metaphysical Frame of C. S. Peirce’s Quantitative Analysis of Sensation”
Daniel Shipsides: “The Problem of Harmfulness Judgements in the Diagnosis of Mental Disorder: The DSM’s Need for Explicit and Honest Normative Guidance”
Richard Hassall: “Can a Unified Causal Theory of Natural Kinds Act as a Yardstick for Assessing the Disease Model of Mental Disorders?”