Mental Health Philosophy is the philosophical investigation of mental health as something that is already occurring. Rather than proposing another philosophy of mental health—another account of what mental health ought to be, how it should be understood, or how it should be achieved—it asks what this thing called mental health actually is: the phenomenon already present whenever we experience it, speak about it, study it, practice it, or attempt to change it.
Essays exploring mental health, psychology, philosophy, relationships, experience, and the questions that emerge where they meet.
Enter the deeper philosophical project: foundational ideas, arguments, concepts, and the developing body of Mental Health Philosophy.
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Reading Time: 13 minutesThe Authentic Self and the Performed Self Mental health is not psychology. There is a familiar experience in contemporary psychology: the distinction between an authentic
Reading Time: 8 minutesOrdinary language inherits an unsolved problem of philosophy.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWatch this talk on You Tube! In this first talk, I introduce Mental Health Philosophy and three philosophical streams that will be important as these
Reading Time: 15 minutesProblems -What Are We Asking When We Ask “Why”? What makes a problem a problem? When we ask why we have a mental health problem,
Reading Time: 10 minutesNeurodivergent masking can leave people exhausted and wondering who they really are. A Mental Health Philosophy approach explores masking, authenticity, psychology, relationships, and the experience
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis podcast accompanies the essay “Appendix to Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Mental Health.” (links to the papers at the end of this post below). Because
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