Psychiatric Diagnosis - Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Etyki (INCET)
BIOUNCERTAINTY - ERC Starting Grant no. 805498
Psychiatric Diagnosis – Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives
Conference "Psychiatric Diagnosis – Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives" organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics JU took take place on the 21st of February online
About conference
Psychiatric and psychological diagnosis is an increasingly frequent component of social life and a subject of analysis in social sciences and philosophy. The role of diagnosis in the scientific as well as therapeutic discourse requires a consideration of its practices as well as its theoretical foundations, combining empirical, analytical and normative approaches. This workshop aims to create an interdisciplinary scientific discussion in which the various facets of diagnosis form the leading motif. We invite social scientists, especially anthropologists and sociologists focusing on field research and critical discourse analysis, and philosophers, examining the foundations of psychiatric diagnosis with ethical and epistemological normative frameworks.
A particularly relevant philosophical framework presents itself in the theory of hermeneutical injustice. This approach analyzes harm stemming from deficient interpretive resources, a category arguably applicable to psychiatric diagnosis. This closely relates to the fact that diagnosis can also be a process in which new empirical and identity qualities are conceptualized. The process is embedded in institutional, economic, and social conditions, the influence of which has a direct impact on an individual's experiences.
Diagnosis is also a practice that actively shapes expert and non-expert discourses, and also creates a field for their mutual interaction. It provides an opportunity for new interpretations of oneself in expert discourse through the non-expert practice of self-diagnosis. In an era when
diagnosis and its language are penetrating social interpretative resources, new fields of scientific consideration are opening up for philosophy and the social sciences.
Conference programme
9:15 – 9:30 Opening
Panel I: Self-diagnosis
9:30 – 11:00 (chair Natalia Filar)
9:30 – 10:00 Giulia Russo (Schollf of Advanced Studies Sant'Anna): Diagnosing or Self-diagnosing? Arguments for the political role of psychiatric self-diagnosis
10:00 – 10:30 Sam Fellowes (Lancaster University): How self-diagnosis relates to categorical and dimensional approaches to psychiatric diagnoses
10:30 – 11:00 Evan Jack (Tulane University): On the epistemology of self-diagnosis
30 minutes break
Panel II: Epistemic Injustice
11:30 – 12:30 (chair Dariusz Miękisz)
11:30 – 12:00 Richard Hassall (University of Nottingham): Hermeneutical Injustice as a Consequence of Receiving a Psychiatric Diagnosis
12:00 – 12:30 Laura Delgado-Verges (UNED Madrid), Claudia Picazo (UNED Madrid) & Laura Delgado (Universoity of Lisbon): Borderline Personality Disorder and Hermeneutical Injustice
60 minutes lunch break
Panel III: Specific Cases
13:30 – 14:30 (chair Ewa Grzeszczak)
13:30 – 14:00 Michael Dickson (University of South Carolina): Second-Person Knowing in the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
14:00 – 14:30 Dariusz Miękisz (Jagiellonian University): Externalism and internalism in psychiatric explanations: cPTS, BPD, guilt and trauma
30 minutes break
Panel IV: Philosophical Perspectives
15:00 – 17:00 (chair Natalia Filar)
15:00 – 15:30 Ewa Grzeszczak (Jagiellonian University): Psychiatric categories as natural kinds – is the application of HPC to psychiatry worth it?
15:30 – 16:00 Adrian Kind (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin): The Model-Based Account of Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning: A Philosophical Perspective on Medical Cognition
16:00 – 16:30 Mustafa Khuramy (University of Hertfordshire): Constructive Perspectivism and Psychiatric Diagnosis
16:30 – 17:00 Christina Leach (University of Calgary): Epistemic Self-Trust and Illness Comorbidity: a critical response to Anke Bueter