A new article published in Studia Culturae explores the interaction of psychiatry and philosophy. Author Olga Vlasova from St Petersburg State University in Russia traces the development of four different models of thought in psychiatry and examines how those models have influenced the foundational beliefs, views, and practices of the psy-disciplines. This work demonstrates that shifts in philosophical points of view have deeply influenced how mental illness is understood.
Vslasova argues that these shifts in psychiatry come about in response to new questions and challenges in the field that current understandings are unable to fully address. This coincides with broader societal changes and allows psychiatry to address contemporary issues. The author:
“present[s] the field’s developmental stages as stages of the marginalisation of psychiatry and the formation of its philosophical paradigms, through which psychiatry comprehends its own foundations and methodological procedures, reconsiders its view of the person, and improves practices.”
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This seems like a lot of mental gyration to me.
They could mention Hubbard or some other more modern workers, like Ian Stevenson’s team at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. But they don’t.
No one has made it because they refuse to take this “fringe” work seriously. They won’t look at the most obvious evidence for what it really shows. It’s a shame.
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