Jasper Feyaerts
@jfeyaerts.bsky.social
psychologist & philosopher, assistant prof. clinical psychology @GhentUniversity. Co-organizer of the Too Mad to be True conferences. Interests in psychosis, delusions, phenomenology, mad studies, altered self/reality-experiences.
Our new article discussing the benefits of integrating insights from dynamical systems theory and phenomenological self-disturbance research to improve early identification and treatment of psychosis just appeared in @thelancet.com.
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Integrating dynamical systems theory and phenomenology to enhance early identification and treatment of psychotic disorders
In the past three decades, psychiatric research has increasingly focused on the early subthreshold stages of psychosis, with the aim of improving the …
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October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Our new article discussing the benefits of integrating insights from dynamical systems theory and phenomenological self-disturbance research to improve early identification and treatment of psychosis just appeared in @thelancet.com.
Freely available here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Freely available here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our invited commentary on Andrea Raballo and colleagues discussion of our work on the revised ipseity-disorder model is now published. We clarify some potential misunderstandings and highlight outstanding issues in phenomenological self-disturbance research. Freely available through link below.
The Revised Ipseity-Disturbance Model of Schizophrenia and the Nature of Self-Disorder: A Commentary on Raballo et al. (2025)
Alterations of selfhood (self-disorders: SDs) have long been emphasized as central features of the schizophrenia-spectrum. In the last two decades, empiric
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August 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Our invited commentary on Andrea Raballo and colleagues discussion of our work on the revised ipseity-disorder model is now published. We clarify some potential misunderstandings and highlight outstanding issues in phenomenological self-disturbance research. Freely available through link below.
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“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”
Sofia Jeppsson ( @jeppsson.bsky.social ) discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”
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Sofia Jeppsson ( @jeppsson.bsky.social ) discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”
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Cogwheel Souls: Q&A with Sofia Jeppsson on Madness, Fantasy, and Philosophy
“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”
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June 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”
Sofia Jeppsson ( @jeppsson.bsky.social ) discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/cogwheel-s...
Sofia Jeppsson ( @jeppsson.bsky.social ) discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/cogwheel-s...
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Symposium on #Self Disorders at #ICHR2025
@ccrosenphd.bsky.social on 20 year outcome for #depersonalization Julia Lebovitz on #embodiment @jfeyaerts.bsky.social on transparency Anne Giersch on #time perception & Louis Sass’s discussion @theichr.bsky.social
@ccrosenphd.bsky.social on 20 year outcome for #depersonalization Julia Lebovitz on #embodiment @jfeyaerts.bsky.social on transparency Anne Giersch on #time perception & Louis Sass’s discussion @theichr.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Symposium on #Self Disorders at #ICHR2025
@ccrosenphd.bsky.social on 20 year outcome for #depersonalization Julia Lebovitz on #embodiment @jfeyaerts.bsky.social on transparency Anne Giersch on #time perception & Louis Sass’s discussion @theichr.bsky.social
@ccrosenphd.bsky.social on 20 year outcome for #depersonalization Julia Lebovitz on #embodiment @jfeyaerts.bsky.social on transparency Anne Giersch on #time perception & Louis Sass’s discussion @theichr.bsky.social
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Great symposium on self-disorders in schizophrenia at #SIRS2025 (@sirsofficial.bsky.social), spearheaded by @jfeyaerts.bsky.social, with exciting empirical findings presented by @ccrosenphd.bsky.social (20-year follow-up!) and Julia Lebovitz, and a stimulating discussion by Louis Sass.
March 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Great symposium on self-disorders in schizophrenia at #SIRS2025 (@sirsofficial.bsky.social), spearheaded by @jfeyaerts.bsky.social, with exciting empirical findings presented by @ccrosenphd.bsky.social (20-year follow-up!) and Julia Lebovitz, and a stimulating discussion by Louis Sass.
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My new book is now available, it is open access. I portray psychiatric diagnoses as being scientific despite not being natural kinds. I seek a middle ground between realism and constructivism by drawing upon various Kantian thinkers, especially Cassirer. #Philsci #Philpsy #Psychiatry #STS #Philsky
In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses
This open access book defends psychiatric diagnoses by portraying them as idealised models understood in a neo-Kantian sense.
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March 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My new book is now available, it is open access. I portray psychiatric diagnoses as being scientific despite not being natural kinds. I seek a middle ground between realism and constructivism by drawing upon various Kantian thinkers, especially Cassirer. #Philsci #Philpsy #Psychiatry #STS #Philsky
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How can we help people with depression who can't find anything to say? Through 'undemanding silence', argues my colleague Jae Ryeong Sul in his most recent article.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The structure of silence in depression - Synthese
Silence has been a relatively neglected phenomenon despite its significance in psychiatric research. Acknowledging this oversight, there has been a recent move towards systematically describing the fi...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
How can we help people with depression who can't find anything to say? Through 'undemanding silence', argues my colleague Jae Ryeong Sul in his most recent article.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Lacan:
"I would very much like to start off this new year, for which I offer you my best wishes, by telling you - The fun is over!"
"I would very much like to start off this new year, for which I offer you my best wishes, by telling you - The fun is over!"
January 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Lacan:
"I would very much like to start off this new year, for which I offer you my best wishes, by telling you - The fun is over!"
"I would very much like to start off this new year, for which I offer you my best wishes, by telling you - The fun is over!"
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Our first issue of 2025 is here, and is a wonderfully rich special issue guest edited by Lucienne Spencer, Matthew Broome & Giovanni Stanghellini entitled Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology #vol38issue1 Introduction available here free access doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky 1/15
The future of phenomenological psychopathology
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2025)
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January 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our first issue of 2025 is here, and is a wonderfully rich special issue guest edited by Lucienne Spencer, Matthew Broome & Giovanni Stanghellini entitled Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology #vol38issue1 Introduction available here free access doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky 1/15
our article discussing problems with the minimal self-view of self-disturbance in psychosis, and outlining an alternative transparency-account, is now freely available through the following link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/649FX...
Self-disorders in schizophrenia as disorders of transparency: an exploratory account
Understanding alterations of selfhood (termed self-disorders or self-disturbances) that are considered typical of the schizophrenia-spectrum is a central focus of phenomenological research. The cur...
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January 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
our article discussing problems with the minimal self-view of self-disturbance in psychosis, and outlining an alternative transparency-account, is now freely available through the following link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/649FX...
Thanks a lot @schizosemia.bsky.social for this thoughtful and generous review of the latest edition of our Too Mad to be True conference. So heartening to read. @wtrax.bsky.social
Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness
Conference Review by Joshua Richardson ( @schizosemia.bsky.social )
cc: @jfeyaerts.bsky.social @wtrax.bsky.social
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Conference Review by Joshua Richardson ( @schizosemia.bsky.social )
cc: @jfeyaerts.bsky.social @wtrax.bsky.social
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Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness
Conference Review by Joshua Richardson
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thanks a lot @schizosemia.bsky.social for this thoughtful and generous review of the latest edition of our Too Mad to be True conference. So heartening to read. @wtrax.bsky.social
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It's interesting how all the people who complain about how disabilities or illnesses have become identities seem fine with people identifying as well, healthy, or normal. I think if anything there is a much larger identity politics of this latter sort.
December 22, 2024 at 4:49 PM
It's interesting how all the people who complain about how disabilities or illnesses have become identities seem fine with people identifying as well, healthy, or normal. I think if anything there is a much larger identity politics of this latter sort.
This is important work towards the better integration of phenomenological and predictive coding approaches of primary delusions. Imo follow-up needed with phenomenologically more sensitive measures and theoretical work on application counterfactual learning to explain sense of reality.
New from us:
People with delusions sometimes feel that the world is unreal.
Here, we explain this in terms of prediction errors, with Kamin blocking behavioral and computational data from patients, psychics, and controls
www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
People with delusions sometimes feel that the world is unreal.
Here, we explain this in terms of prediction errors, with Kamin blocking behavioral and computational data from patients, psychics, and controls
www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
Delusional Unreality and Predictive Processing
Phenomenological psychopathologists have recently highlighted how people with delusions experience multiple realities (delusional and non-delusional) and have suggested this double bookkeeping cannot be explained via predictive processing. Here, we present data from Kamin blocking and extinction learning that show how predictive processing might, in principle, explain a pervasive sense of dual reality.
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December 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM
This is important work towards the better integration of phenomenological and predictive coding approaches of primary delusions. Imo follow-up needed with phenomenologically more sensitive measures and theoretical work on application counterfactual learning to explain sense of reality.
Just received word that our Deluded By Experience project--a longitudinal study combining phenomenological theory, experience-sampling & qualitative research to identify the experiential mechanisms of delusion formation in psychosis--got accepted for funding by the FWO. Hooray! 🥳
December 13, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Just received word that our Deluded By Experience project--a longitudinal study combining phenomenological theory, experience-sampling & qualitative research to identify the experiential mechanisms of delusion formation in psychosis--got accepted for funding by the FWO. Hooray! 🥳
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Anyone what to do a symposium on self-diagnosis in psychiatry for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference? #philsci #philmed #philpsy
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BSPS Annual Conference 2025
The BSPS Annual Conference takes place on 15-17 July 2025 at the University of Glasgow
www.thebsps.org
December 13, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Anyone what to do a symposium on self-diagnosis in psychiatry for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference? #philsci #philmed #philpsy
www.thebsps.org/annual-confe...
www.thebsps.org/annual-confe...
very much looking forward to hearing more about Tosquelles' critique of the notion of "outsider art" at this event tomorrow 11/12 @ Museum Dr Guislain! (this is my first bluesky post, test test)
www.museumdrguislain.be/nl/onview/ac...
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François Tosquelles’ and Jean Dubuffet: A critique of the outsider art — Museum Dr. Guislain
François Tosquelles’ and Jean Dubuffet A critique of the outsider art The conference will discuss the legacy of the Franco-Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles. In the occupied France of the 194...
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December 11, 2024 at 5:26 PM
very much looking forward to hearing more about Tosquelles' critique of the notion of "outsider art" at this event tomorrow 11/12 @ Museum Dr Guislain! (this is my first bluesky post, test test)
www.museumdrguislain.be/nl/onview/ac...
www.museumdrguislain.be/nl/onview/ac...