Can you really *have* a disorder?
Eager to share this piece I wrote! Offers a critique of our diagnostic labeling tendencies and attempts to reframe in an existential lens.
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Image of a poster titled "Learning my disorder isn’t real: Critical pedagogy and existential meaning in abnormal psychology" by Isaac Zamora-Ayres and Travis Pashak, presented at the 2026 virtual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Existential Psychology. Text displays details of a mixed-methods study on employing critical pedagogy in an undergraduate psychopathology course, featuring findings that students perspectives do appear to become less biogenetically-essentialist as a result of readings on the reification fallacy, nominal fallacy, and other materials which emphasize a psycho-social-cultural and existential/dynamic perspective on mental health.
Many thanks to the folks who visited Isaac and me during our virtual break-out room this morning! We had some very *meaningful* and fascinating conversations about infusing existential perspectives into teaching about mental health and mental disorder.
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For anyone attending #ISSEP this year, look for my student Isaac Zamora-Ayres at the morning poster session!
His presentation on critical pedagogy for psychopathology (i.e., challenging reified/biogenetic conceptions of disorder ontology with existential thinking) should be a great chat!
Carlos Quero
Carlos Quero : le « loup » d’ #extremedroite qui veut séduire l’électorat de gauche en #Espagne
#CarlosQuero membre du comité exécutif de #Vox depuis 2025, veut conquérir les classes populaires. En 2020, il s’inscrit à un cours de l’ #Issep #Madrid ( […]
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🔴El instituto d #UltraDerecha d #MaréchalLePen en #Madrid cuenta con 1 militar en activo entre su profesorado
El Tte Col #ManuelGonzález da clase en #Issep, centro educativo fundado x la sobrina d #MarineLePen y convertido en cantera formativa xra cuadros d #Vox
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Large wall print of one of the monsters from “Where the Wild Things Are.”
Costumes including Max’s outfit and a life-size monster suit from the movie adaptation of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
Good art is therapy.
Good therapy is art.
Fun little Friday story for you…
Was in CO a few weeks back for the #ISSEP pre-conference at #SPSP. Wife and I decided to check out the Denver Art Museum and its current Maurice Sendak exhibit. Unsure what to expect, but seemed interesting.
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The #ISSEP pre-conference at #SPSP and happy hour yesterday were such a blast!
Fantastic people, compelling research, good times. I so appreciate this crowd.
Had a great chat with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski about clinical applications of TMT, retirement, grandkids, etc. So freakin’ cool.
Presenting our mobile learning lab on AI at #issep conference in Lausanne. It's AI in the box. #Annabellindner @unifau.bsky.social #KIKi #FAUDDI
