Embodied Concepts and Mental Health

Varga, Somogy

doi:10.1093/jmp/jhx040

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“…Enactive accounts of emotions (Colombetti, 2007(Colombetti, , 2010(Colombetti, , 2013Colombetti & Thompson, 2008) are relevant for psychiatry too. Besides, more general outlines have been given of how embodied, embedded cognition and enactivism may relate to the field of psychiatry (Colombetti, 2013;Drayson, 2009;Fuchs, 2009;Fuchs & Schlimme, 2009;Maiese, 2015;McGann, De Jaegher, & Di Paolo, 2013;Myin, O'Regan, & Myin-Germeys, 2015;Varga, 2018). 5 Still lacking, however, is a general enactive framework for psychiatry that provides an integrative perspective on the nature, causes, and treatment of psychiatric disorders.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Enactive Approach to Psychiatry

Slatman¹

2020

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

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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.

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An Enactive Approach to Psychiatry

Slatman¹

2020

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

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“…include physical engagement in a socially defined environment. At the same time, this environment is saturated with diagnostic technologies, which are often enacted by several radiologists in a joint action, thereby mediating not only linguistic communication (which also has its own specific features, for example, metaphorical structuring [22,23] c ), but also processes of "primary intersubjectivity," that is, affections by facial expressions, postures, movements, gestures, etc. [24] and especially pointing.…”

Section: Normativity In Oncoradiology Imaging: Anti-representationalism and The Presence Of Absence And Others On The Horizon(s)mentioning

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Enactive Approach to Normativity in Oncoradiology Diagnostics: Communication, Affection by, and Enaction of Modified Experiences

Briedis¹

2022

Int J Cogn Behav

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This article examines the enactive approach to oncoradiology imaging and the diagnostic process involved. It investigates how diagnostically relevant knowledge is related to the radiologist's (embodied) subjectivity and (professional) intersubjectivity. The supporting data was gathered by way of ethnographic observations, which in turn were informed by front-loaded phenomenology. Besides identifying a number of correlations between the analysis of embodied cognition and image-based diagnostic praxis, the question of normativity in diagnostic praxis includes a social appropriation of biological processes, an urge to achieve optimality in the process of engaging with imaging technology and communication with professionally significant others. Hence, rather than delivering static depictions for inference-based cognition, oncoradiology images open up pathways to pathological findings, as well as guide and activate the radiologist's skills. They facilitate individual embodied diagnostic action (enaction of modified experiences), which necessarily presuppose a sense-giving horizon of professional standards (definition, classification, detection, and communication of pathological findings). Finally, this raises the intriguing question of whether certain imaging modalities present relevant normative phenomena in a more professionally fruitful manner than perceptual, linguistic or other intentions.

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“…There have been some attempts to address health issues by way of enactivism already, mainly in the field of philosophy of psychiatry (eg. de Haan 2020 ; Fuchs 2018 ; Krueger and Colombetti 2018 ; Seniuk 2020 ; Varga 2018 ), but I will start out with an attempt to give a general phenomenological characterization of health and illness (including both somatic and psychiatric illness). Referring to developed accounts, health versus illness could in a phenomenological context be understood as homelike versus unhomelike ways of finding oneself in a world (Svenaeus 2000 ) in which the body dis - versus dys -appears (Leder 1990 ) in everyday activities.…”

Section: The Biopsychosocial Model and The Phenomenology Of Healthmentioning

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Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena

Svenaeus

2021

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In this paper I explore health and illness through the lens of enactivism, which is understood and developed as a bodily-based worldly-engaged phenomenology. Various health theories – biomedical, ability-based, biopsychosocial – are introduced and scrutinized from the point of view of enactivism and phenomenology. Health is ultimately argued to consist in a central world-disclosing aspect of what is called existential feelings, experienced by way of transparency and ease in carrying out important life projects. Health, in such a phenomenologically enacted understanding, is an important and in many cases necessary part of leading a good life. Illness, on the other hand, by such a phenomenological view, consist in finding oneself at mercy of unhomelike existential feelings, such as bodily pains, nausea, extreme unmotivated tiredness, depression, chronic anxiety and delusion, which make it harder and, in some cases, impossible to flourish. In illness suffering the lived body hurts, resists, or, in other ways, alienates the activities of the ill person.

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Embodied Concepts and Mental Health

Cited by 13 publications

References 74 publications

An Enactive Approach to Psychiatry

An Enactive Approach to Psychiatry

Enactive Approach to Normativity in Oncoradiology Diagnostics: Communication, Affection by, and Enaction of Modified Experiences

Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena

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