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Cogwheel Souls: Q&A with Sofia Jeppsson on Madness, Fantasy, and Philosophy “Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”

“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.

In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses This open access book defends psychiatric diagnoses by portraying them as idealised models understood in a neo-Kantian sense.

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.

The structure of silence in depression - Synthese Silence has been a relatively neglected phenomenon despite its significance in psychiatric research. Acknowledging this oversight, there has been a recent move towards systematically describing the fi...

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!"

The future of phenomenological psychopathology Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2025)

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

Self-disorders in schizophrenia as disorders of transparency: an exploratory account Understanding alterations of selfhood (termed self-disorders or self-disturbances) that are considered typical of the schizophrenia-spectrum is a central focus of phenomenological research. The cur...

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! 🥳

BSPS Annual Conference 2025 The BSPS Annual Conference takes place on 15-17 July 2025 at the University of Glasgow

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...

François Tosquelles’ and Jean Dubuffet: A critique of the outsider art — Museum Dr. Guislain François Tosquelles’ and Jean Dubuffet A critique of the outsider art The conference will discuss the legacy of the Franco-Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles. In the occupied France of the 194...

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...