Interdisciplinary workshop on "mental disorder and self over time".

Abstract

How is personal identity affected by changes in the self over the course of time? How does the experience of a severe mental disorder impact on an individual's sense of self and personal identity? Do fluctuations in the self affect culpability for their actions? These questions are of interest to psychiatrists, philosophers, and legal scholars. However, all too often they are studied from within disciplinary silos. We report on an interdisciplinary workshop that we organized, on “Mental disorder and self over time.” The workshop took place on 1st September, 2015, under the aegis of the European Research Council project “Self‐Control and the Person: An inter‐disciplinary account.” It followed in the footsteps of the Centre for the Humanities and Health, which aimed to facilitate interdisciplinary engagement of clinicians and philosophers.