The number of diagnoses of developmental disorders is on the rise and the use of labels for
developmental disorders, such as attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism …

Psychiatric neuroeconomics offers an alternative approach to understanding mental
disorders by studying the way disorder-related neurobiological alterations constrain …

Work at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry has an extensive and influential
history, and has received increased attention recently, with the emergence of professional …

In this article, we argue that a crucial component of “self-management” as management of
the self consists of reducing what John Sadler has called “self-illness ambiguity”(Sadler …

Disturbances of self are a common feature of schizophrenic psychopathology, with patients
reporting that their thoughts and actions are controlled by external forces, as shown in first …

In the previous chapter I introduced the dominant understanding of depression and its
critiques. Yet, I have seen psychiatric discourses as mostly 'transparent'(even though subject …

One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better
treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental …

In this paper, I focus on the concept of human dignity and critically assess whether such a
concept, as used in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, is indeed a …

The article provides a conceptualization of self (-illness) ambiguity and investigates to what
extent self (-illness) ambiguity is 'special'. First, we draw on empirical findings to argue that …

This paper seeks to highlight phenomena related to resistance in the psychotherapy of
dissociative disorders and other trauma-and stress-related psychiatric disorders. The …