Why does everyday psychotherapy language feel both empowering and troubling?
TLDR: Because two practices are at play: mental health-speak, which empowers, and therapy-speak, which distorts.
A summary of our paper (w/ @almagro.bsky.social) in the great Imperfect Cognitions blog. 🙌
I’m sharing an interview I recently did for the APA blog. @vlc-lab.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social
Check it out!
blog.apaonline.org/2026/01/23/r...
Two people talking
Latest papers: Manuel Almagro & Carme Isern-Mas examine the tension of the increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations from a practice-focused approach to meaning doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
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The Blog of the APA has just published this piece I wrote a month ago about philosophy and polarization!
blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/29/p...
Our paper “De-idealizing hate speech: Hate narratives” is now out in Topoi! 📣 @vlc-lab.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social
Carmela and I argue that we must resist an idealized understanding of hate speech in order to reveal more nuanced forms of it
Check it out!!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper accepted in Topoi!
Carmela Vieites and I argue that there's a risk in the literature of idealizing what hate speech is, and that such idealization must be resisted, especially for detection purposes.
Check out the preprint here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Acabamos de sacar un libro blanco sobre desacuerdos en contextos digitales, uno de los resultados del proyecto #digi_morals financiado por #fundacionBBVA
Resultado de la colaboración entre tres ámbitos: la filosofía, la comunicación y la ciencia política
👇👇🎉🎉📣
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Four people stand on a small stage holding awards in front of a banner that reads “Practical Philosophy. For Everyone.”
A person stands on a stage holding an award in front of a banner that reads “Practical Philosophy.”
Congratulations to Adam Lovett, an assistant professor in political theory at SGIA, for being shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's book prize in interdisciplinary philosophy! @triphilosophy.bsky.social
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🏛️The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 2025 award ceremony took place yesterday.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
New publication! ✨
Why does the growing everyday use of psychotherapy terms feel both empowering and troubling?
Because two practices are at play: mental health-speak, which empowers, and therapy-speak, which distorts.
w/ @almagro.bsky.social
in @journalphp.bsky.social
🔓 tinyurl.com/24bhx4e9
Back to abusive partners demanding respect for their “boundaries” & abusive bosses recommending mindfulness.
I talked with @seiaraimanova.bsky.social about my work w/ @almagro.bsky.social on therapy-speak on her amazing podcast Behind the Stigma🎙️
Check it out!
www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...
Great news ‼️
📘The book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy' (Almagro, 2025) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
👏Congrats, @almagro.bsky.social
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...
"The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy" by @almagro.bsky.social (published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary #Philosophy 2025.
Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...
New publication! ✨
Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.
🔓Link in reply
In the second part, we go further: the inherited notion of deep disagreement may actually conflict with central Wittgensteinian insights.
We suggest that the very idea of “deep disagreement” is, in an important sense, not really Wittgensteinian at all.
In the first part, we argue that Wittgenstein’s remarks on ethics and moral judgments are at odds with the inherited notion of deep disagreement.
Moral disagreements are neither discussions about standards or worldviews, nor unfailingly constrained by the parties’ standards.
Very happy to share that our paper “A Wittgensteinian take on moral vs. deep disagreements” has been accepted for publication in Synthese!
@anefcor.bsky.social
It will appear in the special issue “Wittgenstein and moral deep disagreements”
Preprint: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
✨ PhD position available ✨
@loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇
Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
So excited to see Manuel Almagro Holgado's new book long-listed for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Congrats to Manuel and all the other long-listers! royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...
14.08.2025 16:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2025: Book Prize longlist announced. The Royal Institute of Philosophy. royalinstitutephilosophy.org
Today, we unveil the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Congratulations to all our longlisted authors. 📚🎉
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...
#philosophy #bookprize #longlist
Muchas gracias!!!
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Good news! My book has been selected for the longlist of the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy!
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...
Just published a short piece on Imperfect Cognition (@philosophyblogs.bsky.social) based on my new book The Rise of Polarization.
Take a look 👇
imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
New paper accepted! 🎉
Worried about the overuse of terms like “gaslighting”, “boundaries”, or “trauma”?
@almagro.bsky.social and I are too. In this paper, we explore the epistemic and ethical cocerns of therapy-speak and how it relates to epistemic and affective injustice.
Preprint ⬇️
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Periodistas, investigadoras y especialistas debatirán sobre los cruces entre ciencia, comunicación y política.
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@almagro.bsky.social and I have been working on therapy-speak lately (e.g., the everyday use of psychotherapy terms like OCD, trauma, boundaries...).
Check out the video if you're curious. 📽️
🐸Christophe Heintz (Central European University): Diverse Pathways to Satisfying Informative Intentions
#WorkshoponAnimalCommunication
Happening today! Really great talks so far!!
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🐸 We're excited to announce our upcoming workshop on Animal Communication
📅Save the date... see you in Valencia!
🔗: decrep.blogs.uv.es/workshop-ani...
