Important work here! Psychiatrists in training know philosophical and conceptual issues affect their work but less than a third feel their training has been adequate in these areas.
Isaac Baldwin
11/ ‘Conceptual Competence’ has been suggested as
a framework for developing critical awareness of the conceptual assumptions underlying psychiatric practice.
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This sets out our understanding of soft vs strong naturalism.
Chuffed to finally punblish this with @awaisaftab.bsky.social et al
Attitudes towards conceptual and philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychiatric education: A survey of US and UK trainees
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8/ This undermines the trope that psychiatrists adopt an unreflective, narrow neuro-reductionist 'biomedical' view of psychiatric conditions, aitiology and treatment often levied by critical psychiatry
9/ LIMITATIONS
-small sample size 153
-trainees interested in philosophy of psychiatry may have been more likely to complete the survey, potentially introducing response bias.
-statements designed to index specific perspectives were not validated by qualitative interviews.
