@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

@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...

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

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...

Hahahahah I wouldn't be so sure about that 🤣🤣🤣

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...

Yes, I saw...amazing! Would be great to catch up!!

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. 👏

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.

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

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

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...

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?

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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...

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

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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...

Full original article here:

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.

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

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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

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So glad to hear! Thank you!

Yes!!! Experience is not all immediately accessible! Psychiatry often forgets that...

"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"

📢 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...

Amazing! Look forward to meeting you 😊

📆📢 Coming up soon

Stanford Medicine
Master Clinician Series 2026

Engaging meaning-making in delusions: the phenomenological toolbox

Presenters: Rosa Ritunnano, MD, PhD and Elizabeth Pienkos, PsyD

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A beautiful winter issue of The Philosopher "Crossing the Floods" is out now with a contribution by myself and my friend and colleague Kathleen Murphy-Hollies on "Engaging Delusions", alongside other wonderful essays. Don't miss it!

www.thephilosopher1923.org/print-issues

Really enjoyed talking about delusions as embodied, affective and relational experience yesterday at one of our IMH lunchtime seminars! Great questions and lots more to work on in the new year!

Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese Despite some remarkable accomplishments, enactivist and phenomenological approaches to autistic social difficulties remain highly problematic. Their conceptualization of social disablement as a distur...

📝🧠 I'm thrilled to announce that my paper, "Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches" is now published and open access!!
Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #enactivism

📆 🔊 ❗ Another date for your calendars
⭐ 16th January 2026 - 4h workshop ⭐
"Engaging meaning-making in delusions: the phenomenological toolbox"
Presented by myself & Dr. Elizabeth Pienkos

med.stanford.edu/inspire-trai...

📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore

Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
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