In pursuit of its founding aims INPP announces developments in philosophy and mental health through its mailing list and social media outlets.
As such, INPP has built up a resource of information that may be helpful particularly for those coming new to the field
Communication and mailing list
INPP announces publications, meetings, and developments with clinical impact (research, education and service developments) relevant to philosophy and mental health, by way of its mailing list of members and social media channels
We are normally only able to circulate announcements if they are sent to the website editor.
Contact INPP if you have an announcement you would like to send to the website editor.
INPP Mailing List
INPP includes on its mailing list individual members and nominated contacts for organisational members. Nominated contacts normally forward INPP mailings to the members of their organisations
Many members of organisations opt to be on the INPP mailing list in their own right so that they receive messages direct. We are normally only able to circulate announcements if they are sent to the website editor
Social Media Channels
Besides its mailing list INPP uses X to circulate announcements.
Privacy Policy
Literature and Full Text Downloads
The resources of INPP also include a number of free-to-download full text resources
Besides its support for PPP, for the IPPP book series, and for Other Publications, INPP maintains an Index of Publications in relevant areas of philosophy and mental health. Access to these and other materials is variable and may often require purchase by the user or an organisational library subscription.
INPP has thus started to log open access publications and to host (or provide links to) free full text downloads where these are available.
The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
The INPP website hosts a free-to-download complete copy of The Oxford Textbook.
You can download either the complete text (over 800,000 words) or individual chapters with their associated selected readings.
Oral History Interviews hosted by Psagacity
PSAGACITY is a video-centered forum for innovative and analytic ideas in the philosophy of psychiatry, clinical psychology and mental health. The videos featured on PSAGACITY include philosophers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other scholars who think and write about conceptual issues in the mental health field.
Among other functions, PSAGACITY video interviews collected by John Sadler with leading figures in the development of philosophy and psychiatry build a fascinating oral history of the discipline
PSAGACITY videos are licensed under Creative Commons level 2, meaning anyone can link, download, or post them, as long as PSAGACITY credit is given and the videos are not used for commercial purposes
PSAGACITY is privately owned but exists in large part due to closely affiliated organizations: The International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry, The Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) Philosophy Special Interest Group, and The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
PSAGACITY
Practice Resources for Philosophers
There is a growing body of self-report literature much of it openly available through social media and other web-based sources.
A useful place to get started is the Companion Website for the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
The Companion Website includes two extensive collections respectively of:
- Clinical Case Reports (classic and contemporary), and
- Personal Narratives of Madnerss
Clinical Case Reports
The Clinical Case Reports were collected by VY Allison-Bolger, a clinician specialising in psychotic experiences – the reports include extensive background commentaries
Personal Narratives of Madness
The Personal Narratives of Madness were edited by Jayasree Kalathil, an academic and independent researcher, Survivor Research (London), with colleagues David Crepaz-Keay, (Mental Health Foundation, London), Jasna Russo, (Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University, London (and Debra Shulkes, (survivor activist and editor, Australia/Czech Republic)
Resources on Values-based practice
The website for the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care at St Catherine’s College in Oxford includes a wide range of resources to support practitioners and philosophers not only in mental health but also in other areas of healthcare such as surgery.
The resources of the website include:
- Reading Guides and Free Downloads
- WikiVB – a Bespoke VBP library
- VaST a validated Search Strategy for Values
Reading Guides and Free Downloads
Detailed reading guides with a number of free-to-download full-text training and service development resources are available in the section of the VBP website called More about VBP
WikiVBP - a Bespoke VBP library
Curated by Michael Loughlin, the WikiVBP Library includes books, journal articles and other publications on health-related values. The library is a ‘Wiki’ library because it depends on project partners in the Centre and others submitting their publications for inclusion
VaST - a validated Search Strategy for Values
VaST was developed by Mila Petrova with Jeremy Dale, Paul Sutcliffe and Bill Fulford at Warwick Medical School – it is validated for MEDLINE
Citation reference
Petrova, M., (2012) VaST Values Search Tools: a manual for searching electronic databases for health-related values.
The brief search filter was published in:
Petrova, M., Sutcliffe, P., Fulford, K. W. M., and Dale, J. (2011) Search terms and a validated brief search filter to retrieve publications on health-related values in Medline: a word frequency analysis study. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000243.
VaST includes (pps 93 – 94) a Brief Initial Filter of key terms validated for MEDLINE and published separately in the Journal of the American Informatics Association (see full citation reference below).
The use of the Brief Initial Filter is described with an example in Chapter 6, A Smoking Enigma: Getting (and Not Getting) the Knowledge, in Fulford, Peile and Carroll’s (2012) Essential Values-based Practice.
Citation reference
Petrova, M., Sutcliffe, P., Fulford, K. W. M., and Dale, J. (2011) Search terms and a validated brief search filter to retrieve publications on health-related values in Medline: a word frequency analysis study. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000243.