Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
January 1, 2021
68 citations
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is returning to psychiatry, and the concept of 'set and setting' is central to its use. An ethnography of psychedelic therapeutics on the US east coast from 2015-2019 reveals political and economic pressures to contain psychedelic experiences, which often overflow such attempts. Two key qualities emerge: a labor of protecting spaces, revealing an attentiveness to disconnection that tensions with psychedelic discourses of connection; and how psychedelic experiences, as 'mind-manifesting', reflect the self, re-presenting epistemic disagreements about the self's nature. These qualities offer an analytics for reading the cultural politics of psychedelic use.
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
January 1, 2021
Zeno van Duppen, Jasper Feyaerts
15 citations
The text explores how phenomenological philosophy, particularly concepts of intersubjectivity and temporality, can inform the understanding and treatment of thought disorder in psychosis. Drawing on the work of Sass and psychoanalytic perspectives, it argues that disturbances in the experience of time and self-other relations are central to schizophrenia. The authors suggest that integrating epistemological insights from philosophy with psychiatric practice offers new avenues for psychotherapy, emphasizing the need for therapists to attend to altered subjective experiences rather than solely focusing on symptoms. This theoretical synthesis points toward more nuanced, patient-centered approaches in mental health care.
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology
January 1, 2021
Bhrigupati Singh
Philosophical distance—how foreign concepts are received in an existing intellectual territory—is best measured not through complete agreement or estrangement but through small events of thought: understandings, misunderstandings, and clarifications. The author argues that within phenomenological psychopathology, the distinction between intra-subjective (the minimal self) and inter-subjective (social) dimensions of psychosis may be misleading. Drawing on Cavell's counter-history of philosophy, the author suggests that the core of the intra-subjective is vulnerable to and remade by particular others. Concepts like pitch, tone, and intensity serve as signposts for studying both intra- and inter-subjective phenomena. The author also flags a different intuition of distance, leaving it open for future measurement.