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The employer, SLSO, Region Stockholm, Sweden, doesn’t support this research. The research is affiliated to Johan Gamper’s philosophical hobby project “Adalja”. This may lead to withdrawal of the posters but please reach out if you are interested in the content.

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103 MUST THE EXPERIENCING SUBJECT BE NON-BIOLOGICAL FOR COMPASSION TO BE AN INTEGRATED PART OF THE PSYCHIATRIC SETTING?

Johan Gamper
Region Stockholm, Brandbergens vårdcentral, Brandbergen, Sweden

AS56 – PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANITIES IN PSYCHIATRY – WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY IN PSYCHIATRY?

Abstract Submission

Objectives

In this submission I answer yes to the question posed in the title, building on Gamper, 2021). The possibility comes to a price though, an intricate redefinition of the notion of biological energy. An even higher price is the abandonment of the Aristotelian first philosophy.

Reference

Gamper, J. Biological Energy and the Experiencing Subject. Axiomathes 31, 497–506 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-020-09494-8

Methods

Deducation.

Results

It is shown that a biological object can have an experiencing subject. Since psychiatric condidtions per definition manifest themselves as part of subjective experiences clinicians must use their own subective exeperinces to use their compassion in the clinical setting.

Conclusions

The result is a turning point for psychiatry and psychiatrists now can use their experiences in their practise.

#111 FORMAL AND AXIOMATIC PSYCHIATRY

Johan Gamper
Region Stockholm, Brandbergens vårdcentral, Brandbergen, Sweden

AS56 – PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANITIES IN PSYCHIATRY – WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY IN PSYCHIATRY?

Abstract Submission

Objectives

I just want to lay on the table two related but unexplored fields For future research. The first comes from an attempt to axiomatize the natural laws (Gamper 2023a) and the other from an attempt to find formal relations between very different fields (Gamper (2023b).

References

Johan Gamper. (2023a). On the Axiomatisation of the Natural Laws — A Compilation of Human Mistakes Intended to Be Understood Only By Robots. Qeios. doi:10.32388/KC9YAU.

Johan Gamper. (2023b). Formal Theology. Qeios. doi:10.32388/EMANI

Methods

Formal and axiomatic deduction.

Results

The axiomatical attempt is very sketchy but it if successfull the result would pull psychiatry closer to formal scences.

The formal approach is very promising. Among other things it identifies a formal link between self-consciousness and black hole singularities.

Conclusions

This could be a start for psychiatry to be really integrated with the other sciences.

#131 MACRO PSYCHOLOGY AND THE FOUNDATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

Johan Gamper
Region Stockholm, Brandbergens vårdcentral, Brandbergen, Sweden

AS56 – PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANITIES IN PSYCHIATRY – WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY IN PSYCHIATRY?

Abstract Submission

Objectives

This work builds upon the paper Biological Energy and the Experiencing Subject (Gamper, J, Axiomathes, 2020). The focus is to show how the idea of an experiencing subject can be conceived of within modern psychotherapy. We follow the track from conditioning for animals (without concern for an experiencing subject), via behavioral therapy for humans with an experiencing subject and cognitive behavioral therapy for humans with an experiencing subject where we give the subject a rational for the behavioral modification, to psychodynamically oriented therapy where we confront the very subject without going via her behavior. The three methods are explained within the context of macro psychology. Conditioning concerns therapeutic methods that does not address subjective experiences of the patient and neither address subjective experiences methodologically. For instance, you do not give the patient instructions since you do not rely on the patients ability to understand them. Behavioral therapy concerns methods that that are mediated by instructions. The patient is told to follow a procedure. Cognitive behavioral therapy adds explanations to the behavioral therapy. Psychodynamically oriented therapy concerns thesubject’stendency to repress difficult inner material to feel better. This material is focused in the therapy and the patient is informed about how the therapist understands the dynamic. The framework, thus, that is presented, encompasses the major psychotherapeutic methods of today.

Methods

Deduction from clinical trial and error.

Results

An integrated view of modern psychotherapies.

Conclusions

Macro psychology can help bridge the gap between theoretical and clinical psychology.

#169 BIOLOGICAL PARTS AND BIOLOGICAL WHOLES — LESSONS FOR PSYCHIATRY

Johan Gamper
Region Stockholm, Brandbergens vårdcentral, Brandbergen, Sweden

AS56 – PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANITIES IN PSYCHIATRY – WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY IN PSYCHIATRY?

Abstract Submission

Objectives

Philosophically, it has been hard to determine how parts and wholes are related. Gamper (2024) suggests causal principles to solve the puzzle. For hundreds of years biology has discussed what the essential part of biological organisms is. Gamper (ibid.) makes a suggestion and uses it to compose living things, organisms. As biological objects this affects psychiatry too. Wee need to take into consideration the causal principles at hand and act accordingly. Psychiatrists don’t simulate flying. They fly.

Reference

Johan Gamper. (2024). Causal Principles in Material Constitution: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Composition of Objects. Qeios. doi:10.32388/H2B7NA.2. https://www.qeios.com/read/H2B7NA.2

Methods

We use a new mereological thesis to put psychiatry in perspective vis-a-vis other causal settings.

Results

Psychiatry, as having to do wih biological objects, is shown to be equally dealing with physical objects as other sciences.

Conclusions

This is a purely philosophical (mereological) study and may be used to inspire research into causal connections within psychiatry.

The Kind ‘Object’ | SpringerLink

Blocking the Vagueness Block – A New Restricted Answer to the Special Composition Question | SpringerLink

Scientific Ontology | SpringerLink

Mereology

Wigner on consciousness and physics

Abstract

It is proposed to consider present-day physics as dealing with a special situation, the situation in which the phenomena of life and consciousness play no role. It is pointed out that physical theory has often dealt, in the past, with similarly special situations. Planetary theory neglects all but gravitational forces, macroscopic physics neglects fluctuations due to the atomic structure of matter, nuclear physics disregards weak and gravitational interactions. In some of these cases, physicists were well aware of dealing with special situations, or limiting cases as they are called in the article; in other cases, they were not. It is pointed out that, even if it were true that present-day physics accurately describes the motion of the physical constituents of living bodies, it would not give the whole story. Arguments are adduced, however, to show that the laws of physics, applicable for inanimate matter, will have to be modified when dealing with the more general situation in which life and consciousness play significant roles.

Abstract

Physics and the explanation of life

Abstract