📆 📢 ‼️ ⭐ ⭐ CPD course for mental health clinicians now bookable ⭐ ⭐ Please share widely New understanding in the conceptualisation and treatment of psychosis Wednesday 3rd February 2027 - 09:00 - 17:00 store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

Brilliant paper discussing the implications of our work on delusions in relation to the ethical challenges of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy... Great to see! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Andrea Vik@andreavik.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

The conference is hosted in the Dr Guislain Museum of mental health - an old psychiatric institute and an amazing setting for the conference 3/n

Earlier on we heard a brilliant keynote on the illusion and performance of diagnosis from Anna Six - here she critiques the CASC final exam in psychiatry 2/n

A great presentation on "Reimagining spiritual and religious states in madness", chaired by @rritunnano.bsky.social w/ @ccrosenphd.bsky.social @tatianabaxter.bsky.social and a multicoloured Tanya Luhrmann. We are at Too Mad To Be True 4 in Ghent 1/n

An incredible panel of speakers at the Too Mad to be True conference: (clockwise from top left) Tanya Luhrmann, Cherie’s Rosen @ccrosenphd.bsky.social , Tatiana Baxter @tatianabaxter.bsky.social , Pablo López-Silva, & in-person Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social. #toomadtobetrue #toomadtobetrue4

OCTOBER 8-9, NIJMEGEN, NETHERLANDS 27th International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry - Excited to be giving a keynote lecture: "From Anomalous Experience to Affective (Dis)Orientation: Psychosis, Emotional Upheaval, and the Psychiatric Encounter inpp2026.com

THURSDAY MAY 14 16.15 - 17:30 in person / online TOO MAD TO BE TRUE IV - CONFERENCE "Reimagining Spiritual and Religious States in Madness, Meaning, and Multiple Realities" With Cherise Rosen, Pablo Lopez-Silva, Tanya Luhrmann, Tatiana Baxter, Sohee Park

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Prenatal behavioral contagion through maternal yawning and fetal resonance

D’Adamo et al. report that fetal yawning increases selectively when mothers yawn, suggesting a possible prenatal form of contagion. True mother-fetus pairs exhibit stronger temporal coherence than rec...

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The post-PhD phase is a strange place: your PhD work recognised in the top 1% at a top world university, you have published widely in Q1 journals, invited to deliver keynote lectures etc at the same time receiving repeated rejections from job applications. It’s both validating and disheartening...

www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/16... Schizophrenic Consciousness in the Light of the Phenomenological Epoché: A Foundational Map for Psychiatry

@aldersonday.bsky.social Ben's talk was, as predicted, much more coherent than mine but if you do want to find out more about delusions, language and embodied metaphors, do watch this space for the recording of the talks (Ben's included! Fascinating stuff on felt presence and inner speech) and more

Ben Alderson-Day@aldersonday.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me! The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

@aldersonday.bsky.social My excuse is that I only have 20 minutes to explain EVERYTHING there is to know about delusions and therefore I'll have to be brief and silly by necessity but hey - that's how life goes...

Ben Alderson-Day@aldersonday.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me! The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me! The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

Language and Psychotherapy

This workshop explores the role of language in psychopathology and asks how reflecting on linguistic processes might inform psychotherapy.

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Gestalt contributions to relational and interactional neuroscience. Reply to authors: Understanding and explaining differences across minds in social interaction: insights from social neuroscience and...

This commentary responds to Kamp et al. (Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 275:2199-2201, 2025) editorial on understanding differences across minds in social interaction. It fully supports their relat...

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Question for fellow #qualitative researchers: anyone aware of training courses available in the UK specifically dealing with body-mapping approaches?

Very interesting reflections from a cross-cultural perspective on our recent paper on Delusions as Embodied Emotions in The Lancet Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This was a wonderful read @eikofried.bsky.social ! It is a great joy to read a psychiatric nosology perspective that integrates philosophy of science and data science so well. 👏

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

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15 April - Oxford Workshop on language, psychopathology and psychotherapy I'll be talking about "Delusions: when the mind speaks the body's language" www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

Language and Psychotherapy

This workshop explores the role of language in psychopathology and asks how reflecting on linguistic processes might inform psychotherapy.

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Super excited to have been invited to contribute to this incredible event as keynote speaker alongside some of my favourite people including Awais Aftab and Sofia Jeppsson! Have a look and submit your abstract: What can philosophy do for psychiatry? inpp2026.com

New exciting collaborative work just published, led by Florestan Delcourt Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimal and Narrative Self in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Integrative Review wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimal and Narrative Self in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Integrative Review

The links between the minimal self (our most basic sense of being) and the narrative self (our personal story and identity) in schizophrenia are still unclear. They may work in three ways: the minima...

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Blunting concepts: The double-edged effect of popularizing psychotherapy language

The increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations gives rise to a worth-exploring tension: while it can enhance mental health literacy and provide individuals with...

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Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs" www.iflscience.com/living-in-me...

Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs"

New research radically shifts how we understand delusions, offering patients and clinicians a better way to understand these impactful experiences.

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Thank you to all the brilliant speakers and participants who made our workshop yesterday so rich and truly interdisciplinary ❤️. Let's keep up the good work guys, and hopefully meet again soon!

RESEARCH | Delusions in psychosis are shaped by emotions and language, an important new study from @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @unimelb.bsky.social, @york.ac.uk and Orygen has found – challenging old notions about these experiences. More details + key findings: bit.ly/4pBBgg8

"To our knowledge, this is the first study using a phenomenologically informed, multi-method approach to situate the investigation of delusions in first-episode psychosis (across different themes and diagnoses) within a life-as-a-whole context." So appreciated reading this bsky.app/profile/rrit...

Rosa Ritunnano@rritunnano.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Don't miss our new paper just out in The Lancet Psychiatry Psychiatry today‼️📆 "Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK" Full Open Access article 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Part of the analysis focused on uncovering aspects of self-understanding and meaning making that operate outside of the participant's awareness and are hidden behind ambiguous or contradictory expressions, or within figurative expressions, including metaphor and metonymy"

Rosa Ritunnano@rritunnano.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Don't miss our new paper just out in The Lancet Psychiatry Psychiatry today‼️📆 "Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK" Full Open Access article 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...