Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien PhD Candidate - Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) |
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04.08.2025-30.09.2025
Democratizing Expertise in Psychiatry
1) To promote a decision-making model applicable to American Psychiatric Associtation structures and institutions for including, excluding or revising DSM diagnostic categories rooted in feminist philosophy of science.
2)To identify and critically analyze the various past and current decision-making mechanisms for revising DSM diagnostic categories.
3) To reconstruct the various critical approaches to the procedural aspect of scientific knowledge production within the APA and identify their strengths and limitations.
4) To argue that this democratic model maximizes procedural objectivity by integrating a diversity of perspectives (e.g. psychiatrists, patients, other professionals, non-Western cultural groups), guaranteeing critical dialogue and ensuring transparent decision-making standards.
5) To contribute to the recognition of feminist philosophy of science in the development of decision-making procedures and structures in a context of divergent expertise and interests.
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04.04.2022-28.04.2022
The Concept of Mental Health Between Facts and Values: A Defense of the Objectivity of Psychiatry
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03.02.2020-16.03.2020
The Concept of Mental Health Between Facts and Values: A Defense of the Objectivity of Psychiatry
My objectives during my residency are:
1) I will revise my thesis in light of the feedback provided by my advising committee.
2) I will edit two thesis chapters for publication as articles in peer-reviewed journals.
3) I will interact with worldwide recognized organizations in Geneva such as WHO over the topic of mental health.
4) I will critically engage with current discourses in philosophy of psychiatry, American psychiatry and sociology of psychiatry over the topic of mental health in an interdisciplinary expert community.
5) I will contribute to the Brocher Foundation community by bringing my expertise as a trained philosopher of psychiatry and my perspective from a North American tradition.The objectives of my PhD thesis are:
1) To rethink the public debate between American psychiatry, the discourse of groups of patients, and sociology and philosophy of psychiatry over the definition and use of the concept of mental disorder from the 1960s to today.
2) To identify and critically examine existing responses to the criticisms targeting the overgrowing medicalization of mental health problems.
3) To develop and promote a new model for decision-making structures of the APA for the inclusion, exclusion, and revision of psychiatric diagnostic categories in the DSM with the aim of managing legitimate criticisms targeting psychiatry.
4) To contribute to the recognition of the feminist philosophy of science tradition to elaborate decision-making procedures in the context of conflicting expertise, values, and interests.