The course of Philosophy of Psychiatry is part of the program in Cognitive Sciences of Communication and Action (master level) and is included among the characterizing training activities. The course will introduce some topics that arise when we treat psychiatry as a special science and deal with it using the methods and concepts of philosophy of science. This includes discussion of such issues as the explanation, the reduction and the classification of mental disorders.
Upon completion of the course students
- will have gained familiarity with some of the most important philosophical questions raised by mental disorders and our attempts to understand/treat them;
- will be able to critically evaluate different positions on core themes of the course;
- will develop a critical thought on philosophical matters involving mental disorders, and the ability to build rigorous, clear arguments using an appropriate scientific and philosophical vocabulary.
Upon completion of the course students
- will have gained familiarity with some of the most important philosophical questions raised by mental disorders and our attempts to understand/treat them;
- will be able to critically evaluate different positions on core themes of the course;
- will develop a critical thought on philosophical matters involving mental disorders, and the ability to build rigorous, clear arguments using an appropriate scientific and philosophical vocabulary.
teacher profile teaching materials
Jonathan Y. Tsou, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2022.
Mutuazione: 20710433 FILOSOFIA DELLA PSICHIATRIA - LM in Scienze Cognitive della Comunicazione e dell'Azione LM-92 MARRAFFA MASSIMO
Programme
This course asks about the prospects and problems of the project of a 'cognitive neuropsychiatry' or 'clinical cognitive neuroscience'. The first part of the module examines some specific cases of interaction between psychiatry and cognitive science. In the second part, attachment theory, as a psychodynamic tradition of ethological, cognitive and evolutionary framework, is taken as a reference framework within which classic psychoanalytic themes such as emotion regulation, defenses, trauma and dissociation are re-examined.Core Documentation
D. Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA) 2012Jonathan Y. Tsou, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2022.
Type of delivery of the course
traditionalAttendance
facoltativeType of evaluation
The verification of learning will take place through an oral test.