Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A Didactic Course on “Philosophy of Psychiatry” for Psychiatry Residents

  • Feature: Educational Case Report
  • Published:
Academic Psychiatry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

References

  1. Murphy D. Philosophy of psychiatry. In: Zalta EN, editor. The stanford encyclopedia of philosophy https://platostanfordedu/archives/spr2015/entries/psychiatry 2015.

  2. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology (journal). Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.

  3. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. https://philosophyandpsychiatry.org/ (Accessed August 20, 2017).

  4. MRCPsych Syllabic Curriculum 2013: http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Syllabic%20Curriculum%20MRCPsych%20December%202013.pdf (Accessed August 4, 2017).

  5. Royal College of Psychiatrists. Psychiatry Core Modules Jan 2009: http://www.gmc-uk.org/Psychiatry_Core_Module_Feb09.pdf_30535456.pdf (Accessed August 4, 2017).

  6. Wells LA. Philosophy and psychiatry: a new curriculum for child and adolescent psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry. 2002;26(4):257–61.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Bolton D. What is mental disorder?: an essay in philosophy, science, and values. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2008.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  8. Ghaemi SN. The concepts of psychiatry: a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press; 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  9. McHugh PR, Slavney PR. The perspectives of psychiatry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 2011.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Kendler KS, Parnas J. Philosophical issues in psychiatry II: nosology. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  11. Kingma E. Naturalist accounts of mental disorder. In: Fulford K, Davies M, Graham G, Sadler J, editors. The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2013. p. 363–84.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Frances A. DSM in philosophyland: curiouser and curiouser. Making the DSM-5: Springer; 2013. p. 95–103.

  13. Rissmiller DJ, Rissmiller JH. Evolution of the antipsychiatry movement into mental health consumerism. Psychiatr Serv. 2006;57(6):863–6.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  14. Aftab A. Mental disorders and naturalism. Am J Psychiatry Residents’ J. 2016;11(03):10–2.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Aftab A. Mental illness vs brain disorders: from Szasz to DSM-5. Psychiatr Times. 2014;31(2):20G–G.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Berlim MT, Fleck MP, Shorter E. Notes on antipsychiatry. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2003;253(2):61–7.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  17. Szasz TS. The myth of mental illness. Am Psychol. 1960;15(2):113.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Szasz T. The myth of mental illness: 50 years later. Psychiatrist. 2011;35(5):179–82.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Ghaemi SN. The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model. Br J Psychiatry. 2009;195(1):3–4.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  20. Kendler KS. Toward a philosophical structure for psychiatry. Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(3):433–40.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  21. Perring C. Mental illness. In: Zalta EN, editor. The stanford encyclopedia of philosophy https://platostanfordedu/archives/win2016/entries/mental-illness2016.

Download references

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Cathleen Cerny and Sarah Nagle-Yang for their instrumental support in the implementation of this course. We would also like to thank Chandan Khandai for his valuable feedback in the development of the survey. Gratitude is additionally due to AADRT’s International Medical Graduate Fellowship award (now called Nyapati Rao and Francis Lu IMG Fellowship Program) which established the mentoring relationship leading to the birth of this project.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Awais Aftab & Susan Stagno

  2. Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    S. Nassir Ghaemi

Authors
  1. Awais Aftab
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. S. Nassir Ghaemi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Susan Stagno
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Awais Aftab.

Ethics declarations

The protocol for the survey conducted along with the didactic course was submitted to Institutional Review Board (University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center) approval, who determined that the survey met criteria for exemption from review. IRB# EM-16-30.

Disclosures

All authors report no conflicts of interest. Awais Aftab and Susan Stagno report no disclosures. S. Nassir Ghaemi has received honoraria and consulting fees from Sunovion Pharmaceuticals. He was also employed by Advance Medical. He has nothing else to disclose.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Aftab, A., Nassir Ghaemi, S. & Stagno, S. A Didactic Course on “Philosophy of Psychiatry” for Psychiatry Residents. Acad Psychiatry 42, 559–563 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0853-7

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0853-7

Search

Navigation