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Jonathan Epstein is an Academic General Practitioner based at the University of Melbourne, Australia, as well as in clinical practice. He has completed a Masters of Arts (Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health). His research interests are values-based medicine and depression.
Fabian Freyenhagen is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex and co-Investigator on the Essex Autonomy Project. His work on autonomy and mental capacity has been published in Inquiry, Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, and International Journal of Law in Context. He is the author of Adorno’s Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Frances Griffiths is Professor of Medicine in Society at Warwick University. Her research interests include lay experience of health and health care, and long-term illness such as depression. Recent publications include Griffiths, F. E., Boardman, F. K., Chondros, P., Dowrick, C. F., Densley, K., Hegarty, K. L., and Gunn, J. (2015). The effect of strategies of personal resilience on depression recovery in an Australian cohort: A mixed methods study. Health: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine, 19, 86–106.
Jane Gunn is the Head of the Department of General Practice, inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research, and Director of the Primary Care Research Unit at The University of Melbourne. Her research interests include depression in primary care. Recent publications include Gunn, J., Elliott, P., Densley, K., Middleton, A., Ambresin, G., Dowrick, C., . . . Griffiths, F. (2013). a trajectory-based approach to understand the factors associated with persistent depressive symptoms in primary care. Journal of Affective Disorders, 148, 338–46.
Fleur Jongepier is a PhD student at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and is writing her dissertation on self-knowledge and first-person authority.
Stefan Kaiser is professor and director of the adult psychiatry division at the Geneva University Hospitals. His research focus is on the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and related disorders. His research group uses a multilevel approach that includes psychopathological assessment, behavioral experiments, and functional neuroimaging. Representative publications include Hartmann et al. (2015). Apathy but not diminished expression in schizophrenia is associated with discounting of monetary rewards by physical effort. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 41, 503–512, and Kirschner et al. (2016). Ventral striatal hypoactivation is associated with apathy but not diminished expression in patients with schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 41, 152–163.
Annemarie Kalis is assistant professor in practical philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and [End Page 59] Religious Studies at Utrecht University. She has a double background in psychology and philosophy; her areas of expertise are philosophy of mind, action theory, and the philosophy of psychiatry and psychology. Representative publications include Kalis & Meynen (2014). Mental disorder and legal responsibility: The relevance of stages of decision-making. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 37(6), 601–608, and Kalis (2011): Failures of agency. Irrational behavior and self-understanding. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Wayne Martin is Principal Investigator on the Essex Autonomy Project, an externally funded research project concerned with the ideal of self-determination in the practice and regulation of care. Recent publications include “An Unblinkered View of Best Interests” in the British Medical Journal and “Mental Capacity and the Applied Phenomenology of Judgement” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
John McMillan is Director of the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago. He recently published “The kindest cut? Surgical castration, sex offenders and coercive offers” in The Journal of Medical Ethics and is currently completely a book chapter on “Containing violence and controlling desire.”
Gareth S. Owen is clinical senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has scholarly interests in psychiatry and law as well as psychopathology and phenomenology. Some of his recent publications are “Temporal Inabilities and Decision-Making Capacity in Depression” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and “Mental Capacity and Decisional Autonomy: An Interdisciplinary Challenge” in Inquiry.
Barton W. Palmer is Professor Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include neuropsychological aspects of neuropsychiatric conditions, informed consent and decision-making capacity, as well as healthy aging. Dr. Palmer and...
