To Overcome Psychiatric Patients’ Mind–Brain Dualism, Reifying the Mind Won’t Help, 2020, Schleim

[Andy]

Thought this would be at least one for @Jonathan Edwards

Glannon (1) summarized recent research in Biological Psychiatry and discussed possible ethical implications of mind–brain dualism in psychiatry in this journal. He particularly addressed the risk that patients might disregard neuroscientific discoveries and subsequently neglect effective biological treatments for psychiatric disorders. In this opinion article, I want to emphasize how some philosophers and scientists still use dualistic language, leading researchers and, to a lesser degree, clinicians into unnecessary and possibly even confused debates on mind–body reductionism; I also briefly address empirical data suggesting that, in contrast to Glannon, patients at large presently don’t seem to eschew biological treatments.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00605/full