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Kris Nielsen

School of Psychology, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

1 paper in the library · 70 citations · publishing 2024

Papers

Philosophy of psychiatry: theoretical advances and clinical implications.

World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) June 1, 2024 Dan J Stein, Kris Nielsen, Anna Hartford et al. 70 citations

Psychiatric understanding and treatment benefit from integrating both objective facts and subjective values, moving beyond strict scientism toward a softer naturalism. A pluralist approach—embracing ontological, explanatory, and value pluralism—acknowledges the multi-level causal interactions underlying psychopathology and highlights the importance of lived experience and diverse difference-makers in research and practice. Embodied, embedded, and enactive views of the brain-mind offer a conceptual framework for the mind-body problem that clinically integrates cognitive-affective neuroscience with phenomenological psychopathology.