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  • About the Authors

Gloria Ayob is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire. She works on topics in the philosophy of mind primarily, with particular interests in self-deception, delusions, and notions of self-knowledge (such as authorship, ownership, avowal). She lectures on the MA Philosophy and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire. She can be contacted via e-mail at: GLAyob@uclan.ac.uk

Jodi Halpern is Associate Professor of Bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley. A psychiatrist with a doctorate in philosophy, she is the author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice, (Oxford University Press, New York, paperback 2011). See jodihalpern.com. She can be contacted via e-mail at: jhalpern@berkeley.edu

Scott Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan. He graduated from Harvard Medical School, trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on the ethics of research involving the decisionally impaired and on surrogate consent for incapacitated patients. His book Evaluation of Capacity to Consent to Treatment and Research was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He can be contacted via e-mail at: scott.kim@nih.gov

Panagiotis Oulis is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Athens (Greece). His scholarly interests include clinical psychopathology, philosophy and methodology of psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 papers in national and international psychiatric journals and the author of six books on these topics. His recent publications include the textbook Treatise of Clinical Psychopathology, second expanded edition, Athens, Beta Medical Arts Publications, 2010 (in modern Greek) and the paper “On the nature of mental disorders: towards an objectivistic account” in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (forthcoming). He can be contacted via e-mail at: oulisp@med.uoa.gr

Elizabeth Pienkos is an advanced doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University. She is interested in the phenomenology of schizophrenia and other psychoses and in applying phenomenology to clinical practice. She can be contacted via e-mail at: epienkos@gmail.com

Jennifer Radden is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has published extensively on mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects of psychiatric theory and practice. Her books include Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression (2009), as well as The Nature of Melancholy: Readings on [End Page 191] Melancholy, Melancholia and Depression from Aristotle to Kristeva (2000). She can be contacted via e-mail at: Jennifer.Radden@umb.edu

Lainie Friedman Ross is the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics and Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. She is the author of two books: Children, Families and Health Care Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Children in Medical Research: Access versus Protection (Oxford University Press, 2006). She is currently working on a third book regarding ethical and policy issues in organ transplantation. She can be contacted via e-mail at: lross@uchicago.edu

Louis Sass is Distinguished Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University. He is the author of Madness and Modernism, The Paradoxes of Delusion, and many articles on phenomenological psychopathology. He can be contacted via e-mail at: lsass@rci.rutgers.edu

Somogy Varga is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has worked at the Institute of Social Research and obtained his PhD from JWG Universität in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. He is the author of Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal (Routlege 2011) and of numerous articles on the philosophy of psychiatry, critical social philosophy and moral psychology. He can be contacted via e-mail at: svarga@memphis.edu

Jennifer K. Walter is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Bioethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also an attending physician in general pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She...

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