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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · 1d

Our new article discussing the benefits of integrating insights from dynamical systems theory and phenomenological self-disturbance research to improve early identification and treatment of psychosis just appeared in @thelancet.com.

Freely available here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Integrating dynamical systems theory and phenomenology to enhance early identification and treatment of psychotic disorders

In the past three decades, psychiatric research has increasingly focused on the early subthreshold stages of psychosis, with the aim of improving the …

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our invited commentary on Andrea Raballo and colleagues discussion of our work on the revised ipseity-disorder model is now published. We clarify some potential misunderstandings and highlight outstanding issues in phenomenological self-disturbance research. Freely available through link below.

The Revised Ipseity-Disturbance Model of Schizophrenia and the Nature of Self-Disorder: A Commentary on Raballo et al. (2025)

Alterations of selfhood (self-disorders: SDs) have long been emphasized as central features of the schizophrenia-spectrum. In the last two decades, empiric

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · Jun 28

“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”

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Cogwheel Souls: Q&A with Sofia Jeppsson on Madness, Fantasy, and Philosophy

“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”

www.psychiatrymargins.com

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S PARK 박소희 🌏 @parkbmb.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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Isabel Kreis @ivkreis.bsky.social · Mar 30

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.

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Sam Fellowes @samfellowes.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses

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

link.springer.com

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Feb 15

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.

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Feb 15

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.

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Feb 15

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.

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Dan Degerman @ddegerman.bsky.social · Feb 6

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.

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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...

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Agon Hamza @agonhamza.bsky.social · Jan 2

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!"

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · Jan 6

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

The future of phenomenological psychopathology

Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2025)

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Jan 6

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...

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...

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Jan 5

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

Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · Jan 5

Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness

Conference Review by Joshua Richardson ( @schizosemia.bsky.social )

cc: @jfeyaerts.bsky.social @wtrax.bsky.social

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Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness

Conference Review by Joshua Richardson

www.psychiatrymargins.com

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Dec 22

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.

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Dec 20

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.

Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · Dec 20

New from us:

People with delusions sometimes feel that the world is unreal.

Here, we explain this in terms of prediction errors, with Kamin blocking behavioral and computational data from patients, psychics, and controls

www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Delusional Unreality and Predictive Processing

Phenomenological psychopathologists have recently highlighted how people with delusions experience multiple realities (delusional and non-delusional) and have suggested this double bookkeeping cannot be explained via predictive processing. Here, we present data from Kamin blocking and extinction learning that show how predictive processing might, in principle, explain a pervasive sense of dual reality.

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thanks Sohee!

Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thanks Cherise!

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Dec 13

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! 🥳

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Sam Fellowes @samfellowes.bsky.social · Dec 13

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
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BSPS Annual Conference 2025

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

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Jasper Feyaerts @jfeyaerts.bsky.social · Dec 11

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...

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...

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