CPS reading group 11/03

[Thomas Graham]

Hi all,

This week, the CPS reading group will be reading "An Enactive Approach
to Psychiatry" by Sanneke De Haan. You can find the paper attached to
this email.

For the first few weeks of semester, the group will meet at
10:30-11:30am on Wednesday, in room 6.71. You can find the abstract
below, and the zoom link below that.

If you are a regular attendee of the CPS group, and you cannot make
this time slot due to changes in schedules as we spool up into the
semester, please let me know, and I will put together a poll to see if
we can find a time that everyone can make.

Cheers,

Tom

Abstract:
This article addresses the integration problem in psychiatry: the
explanatory problem of integrating such heterogeneous factors as cause
or contribute to the problems at hand, ranging from traumatic
experiences, dysfunctional neurotransmitters, existential worries,
economic deprivation, social exclusion, and genetics. In practice,
many mental health professionals work holistically in a pragmatic and
eclectic way. Such pragmatic approaches often function well enough.
Yet an overarching framework provides orientation, treatment
rationale, a shared language for communication with all those
involved, and the means to explain treatment decisions to health
insurers and to society at large. It also helps to relate findings
from different areas and types of research. In this article, I
introduce an enactive framework that supports holistic psychiatric
practice by offering an integrating account of how the diverse aspects
of psychiatric disorders relate. The article starts with a short
overview both of the four main dimensions of psychiatric disorders and
of the currently available models. I then introduce enactivism and the
enactive notion of sense-making. Subsequently, I discuss how this
enactive outlook helps explicate the relation between the four
dimensions and what that implies regarding the causality involved. The
article concludes with an overview of treatment implications.

Zoom link:
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https://anu.zoom.us/j/84613271309?pwd=368zBkkuTfPFWqTNxLoTxOOV8QM9JW.1

[Thomas Graham]

Hey all,

Just a reminder that this is on tomorrow. See you all then.

Cheers,

Tom