Kristopher Nielsen
@K_L_Nielsen
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Author of https://t.co/lXnn7PUtjW. Clin Psyc from NZ, Lecturer in Clin Psyc at VUW. PhD (Psyc), MSc (CBNS). He/Him
Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined November 2018
Stoked to have this paper out in the world! It presents a summary review of three conceptual frameworks in Enactive Psychiatry, highlighting the integrative potential of this emerging approach: https://t.co/lH1JNvuWlc
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One way to try to understand what a “psychotherapy relationship” means is to see that it is a sui generis (of its own kind) developmental relationship with similarities and dissimilarities to each of the following: -internist and patient: understanding a problem, complex…
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1/ What do people perceive as causes for depression, poverty, & mortality—and are social or non-social causes more important? New preregistered study led by Emma Bridger in a n=1000 UK sample, including a wide variety of perceived causes.
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Excited to share our new paper on 'CLARITY,' an open-access education resource for concussion. Findings highlight the importance of accessible psychoeducation that addresses biopsychosocial factors in recovery. #concussion #mTBI
https://t.co/Cp3qpwcFIv
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Education is strongly advocated as a key component of treatment for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in clinical guidelines. However, there is mixed eviden...
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Excited to share a new paper - Evaluating Kenzie et al.’s amazing complex systems approach to persisting symptoms following concussion. We make some recommendations for continued development, including engagement with enactivism.
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My book “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (Oxford University Press, 2024) brings together an edited selection of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times (@PsychTimes) from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material. These interviews explore
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In #Psychiatry we must assess Subjective experience Behavioral patterns Histories of interaction/learning Context/environments Bodily processes The factors in these dimensions are related through circular causation loops Why bodily processes? 10 reasons🧵 https://t.co/5MJOM7IMqk
@JRBneuropsiq Can you explain how you think knowledge of bodily processes is equally as important as knowledge of peoples experiences? I'm not sure I see, apart from in a minority of specific cases, any (existing) knowledge of bodily processes that has any important use?
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Happy to share that our work applying precision mapping to individuals with depression sampled longitudinally over an extended period has been published this week in @nature. Brief recap of the main findings and their potential implications below. https://t.co/ZbTj6x7eyV
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Nature - Precision functional mapping shows that the frontostriatal salience network occupies nearly twice as much of the cortex in people with depression, and this was unaffected by mood changes...
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Musical Hallucinations, or Musical Obsessions? 1/7 🧠🧵 For the past 6 months, a 67-year-old man suffers from long episodes in which he 'hears in his head' a series of repetitive songs that he had previously performed with his musical group, but had not heard in recent years.
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For a while, I wanted to share these thoughts on #neuropsychiatry, psychopathology, phenomenology & psychotherapy. I can do it now: @JournalPHP just published our work! Clinical narrative & the painful side of conscious experience Let me explain:🧵 1/10 https://t.co/S0KLNPWfCL
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Philosophy is crucial underpinning to psychiatric practice. 2 points I think most important: 1)Disorders are useful but fallible constructs/not diseases 2)DSM decisions should be utilitarian- greatest good to greatest #/least harm from unintended consequences Excellent article:
It’s great to see our forum article on philosophy of psychiatry in June 2024 issue of World Psychiatry! It was an honor working with this excellent team of authors. I’m eager to read the commentaries. (PDF has been circulated by email, should be posted online soon, link below)
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It’s great to see our forum article on philosophy of psychiatry in June 2024 issue of World Psychiatry! It was an honor working with this excellent team of authors. I’m eager to read the commentaries. (PDF has been circulated by email, should be posted online soon, link below)
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Absolutely stoked to have contributed to this summary review of progress in the Philosophy of Psychiatry. The opportunity to work with some of my academic hero’s did not disappoint!
Should be posted online here: https://t.co/CCcTZM8DP1 And indexed on PubMed etc in the near future (will share link once it is) @K_L_Nielsen @AnneMarieGagnJ1 @ElToroSolo
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New depression overview article covers - 5 biological - 1 social/environmental, and - 0 psychological hypotheses for depression. Really disheartening to see such one-sided “overview” of a multifaceted collection of biopsychosocial mental health problems.
Major depressive disorder: hypothesis, mechanism, prevention and treatment 👇👇👇 https://t.co/sQn2nYv9Z8
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I've been building up a selection of talks on causation, explanation, complexity, emergence, constraints etc in psych and neuro sciences. Thought it would be worth sharing in light of @awaisaftab recent excellent posts . Let me know what I've missed!
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“in breaking things down into components to look for scientific explanations, we can end up missing the fact that it was the configuration that held the explanation we were looking for.”
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How we conceptualise mental health problems matters
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When I sought help for crippling invasive thoughts, I was told I had a disease like any other. But I wasn’t able to recover until I understood the fallacy at the heart of mental healthcare
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Thank you to John Moffat for this recent review of my book:
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By John Moffat. John Moffat reviews Kristopher Nielsen's book on reimagining mental disorder.
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Our new paper, just out of print, provides attitudes on the concept of mental disorder, across disciplines such as psychiatry, psychology and philosophy, building on previous work of @awaisaftab.
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A Materialist History of Pathology and Neurodiversity: A Conversation with Robert Chapman (@DrRJChapman ) Capitalism has led to ever-stifling norms of mental and physical functioning, with resulting increases in various forms of illness and disability. https://t.co/htQu7pkm7U
psychiatrymargins.com
Robert Chapman, PhD is a philosopher and social theorist specializing in disability and mental health.
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