While contemporary psychiatry seeks the mechanisms of mental disorders in neurobiology,
mental health problems clearly depend on developmental processes of learning and …

Objective Psychotherapies are increasingly incorporating spiritual and religious systems of
belief and practice, which aligns with recent developments toward person-centered …

In this article, we argue that a crucial component of “self-management” as management of
the self consists of reducing what John Sadler has called “self-illness ambiguity”(Sadler …

This article sketches in which way clinical practice and the science of anxiety and anxiety
disorders could benefit from an enactive approach. It starts with the clinical phenomenology …

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 …

In this paper, we explore the conceptual problems that arise when using network analysis in
person-centered care (PCC) in psychiatry. Personalized network models are potentially …

Can affordances help in understanding psychiatric illness and psychopathological
experience? In recent work on the philosophy of psychiatry and phenomenology, the answer …

The setting: 83 reports of healing related to prayer (HP) were evaluated between 2015 and
2020 in the Netherlands. Research questions: What are the medical and experiential …

Psychiatric patients sometimes ask where to draw the line between who they are–their
selves–and their mental illness. This problem is referred to as the self-illness ambiguity in …

Patients regularly bring value-laden concerns to treatment, but clinicians are often unsure
about what role to play in their patients' moral lives. Addressing problems in moral …