The number of diagnoses of developmental disorders is on the rise and the use of labels for
developmental disorders, such as attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism …

Work at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry has an extensive and influential
history, and has received increased attention recently, with the emergence of professional …

More than 1.5 billion students in higher education reported experiencing academic anxiety
in April 2020. Personal control is essential to control academic stress, thereby fostering …

Introduction: Abnormal self-experiences are a common feature of major depression despite
their absence from current diagnostic manuals. Current diagnostic criteria leave us with an …

This article addresses cases of remarkable recoveries related to healing after prayer. We
sought to investigate how people who experienced remarkable recoveries re-construct and …

The onset of autoimmune disease (AD) in emerging adulthood is a disruptive illness
experience that is difficult to make sense of. Compounded by hegemonic ideologies …

The idea that (former) patients are experts who could contribute to mental health care
practices is gaining traction. Experts-by-Experience are increasingly employed by …

The article provides a conceptualization of self (-illness) ambiguity and investigates to what
extent self (-illness) ambiguity is 'special'. First, we draw on empirical findings to argue that …

Critical psychiatry has recently echoed Szasz's longstanding concerns about medical
understandings of mental distress. According to Szaszianism, the analogy between mental …

This paper explores how self-identity can be impacted upon by the use of digital and social
media. In particular, drawing on a narrative account of selfhood, it argues that some forms of …