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[O-15-01]Philosophy of Psychiatry as an Interdisciplinary Continuum
Nikolay A. Bokhan, Igor A. Artemyev, *Svetlana V. Vladimirova (Mental Health Research Institute (Russia))
Keywords:
Cultural Psychiatry,Philosophy,cognition,consciousness
The relationship between philosophy and psychiatry ultimately comes down to solving the following problem: whether psychiatry is - and to what extent - a science more medical or more philosophical. In particular, psychiatry is considered as a philosophy of medicine on the basis that psychiatrists, like philosophers, do not have special material tools for understanding a person, only imprinted virtual knowledge.To trace the formation of an interdisciplinary field between psychiatric and philosophical knowledge, reflected in the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, the International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry. The ideological kinship of psychiatry and philosophy is seen in the systemic virtual understanding of the dialectic of the life process (the prerogative of clinical psychiatry and the underlying mental activity of this understanding – philosophy). However, philosophy as a theory of the universal, the philosophy of knowledge is a tool - a method of knowing the world, so attempts to replace specific sciences and their methods with philosophy are deeply erroneous.The main problem in the field of psychiatry and philosophy is the disproportion of language. Difficulties arise in the ambiguous use of terms, in particular the term consciousness, which philosophy and psychiatry operate with. The former, as a rule, understand the totality of the results of cognition, occurring in any form, both sensory and logical.Philosophy considers consciousness and cognition as certain aspects of human essence and attitude to the world.Psychiatry is largely engaged in the study of disorders of consciousness (confusion, dream state, etc.).However, philosophy, with its inherent epistemological function, is immanently connected with other medical sections: surgery, internal diseases, etc., since the theory of diagnosis is built on this function not only in psychiatry, but also in other disciplines. It performs the function of an interdisciplinary continuum of the entire diagnostic galaxy.