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Interdisciplinary work in philosophy and psychiatry depends on practitioners (services users as well as service providers) and philosophers having access to each others’ materials. One key way to achieve this is by working together co-productively. But there is also a growng resource of materials on which both sides may draw. We include here a few examples.
The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry includes introductions for practitioners – including reading guides and selected readings – on philosophical topics important in philosophy and mental health
The INPP website hosts a free-to-download copy of The Oxford Textbook. You can download the complete text (over 800,000 words) or individual chapters with their associated selected readings.
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:
The Clinical Case Reports were collected by VY Allison-Bolger, a clinician specialising in psychotic experiences – the reports include extensive background commentaries
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:
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
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 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.
