It’s a 2013 youtube video upload but I just found it now.
Sharing.
1 Like
For those interested in how to conceptualize MI, I found the following chapter an interesting and nuanced contribution. It might be a bit of a long read, so be prepared:
https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/zpm/psychatrie/fuchs/critical_neuroscience.pdf
Abstract:
“This chapter offers a systemic and ecological account as an opposing view to the naturalist idea that mental illnesses can be reduced to dysfunctions of the brain. Mental illness is regarded, on the one hand, as inseparable from the living organism and on the other, as inseparable from the patient’s lifeworld or social environment. In order to graqsp mental disorders in their context, the notion of monolinear causation has to be replaced by the notion of circular causality. In this view mental illnesses are marked by a disruption of vertical circular causality; that is, the interplay between lower-level processes and higher faculties of the organism. This primarily affects a mentally ill person’s relation to themself which continually co-determines the course of the illness. On the other hand, mental illnesses are characterized by a disruption of horizontal circular causality; in other words of social relationships and the ability to respond adequately to the demands and expectations of others. This leads to negative feedback loops in socio-functional cycles that influence the course of the illness from the very beginning. Both kinds of circular causal processes are tied to mediation by the brain, but cannot exclusively be located within it. For this reason reduction of mental illnesses to diseases of the brain is in principle not possible.”
Even shorter: the article tries to provide the conceptual orientation to account for a bio/psycho/social model of MI.
1 Like
will read later.