George Denfield
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George Denfield
@ghdenfield.bsky.social
Neuroscientist & Psychiatrist at Columbia University, alum of Baylor College of Medicine and the Andreas Tolias lab.
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Qualitative researchers: do you have any recommendations for useful methods papers about how to conduct one-to-one semi-structured interviews? I'm looking for guidance for a student conducting interviews for the first time
March 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Psychiatry has lost sight of the centrality and importance of subjective experience. What could the science and practice of psychiatry look like if we more seriously emphasized subjectivity and lived experience?
We offer one proposal, based on the Nested States Model, here: tinyurl.com/NestedStates
The Nested States Model: A Phenomenologically-Grounded Model of the Mind
Abstract. Background: Subjective experience is central to the nature of mental illness, yet it has not played a central role in most empirical approaches to psychopathology. While phenomenological per...
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December 3, 2024 at 5:57 PM
How are our experiential states structured; what shapes how they change over time? In our new paper, we describe the nested structure of experiential states and how this perspective might aid the empirical study of subjectivity

The Nested States Model: go.shr.lc/3UdnmV6
The Nested States Model: An Empirical Framework for Integrating B...: Ingenta Connect
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November 24, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Lots of colleagues would greatly appreciate this book. But don't get it yet. A new version is coming out with annotations by Evan Thompson and Ezequiel Di Paolo.
I've known for a long time that Varela was amazing, but wow!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
Principles of Biological Autonomy
A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as m...
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September 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM