About the Authors
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Simona Giordano is a Reader in Bioethics at the University of Manchester. She has been working on eating disorders for the last twenty years; over the last 13 years She has also been researching extensively on the ethical problems relating to the care of transgender minors. Her latest monographs/articles: Children with Gender Identity Disorders, a clinical, ethical and legal analysis, Routledge, 2013; Simona Giordano, Exercise and Eating Disorders, an Ethical and Legal Analysis, Routledge, London and New York, 2010, pp. 222. 13 citations; "Eating yourself away: reflections on the 'comorbidity' of eating disorders and gender dysphoria", Clinical Ethics, 2016; Simona Giordano, "Eating Disorders and the Media", Current Opinion in Psychiatry, November 2015
Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, is a member of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA and the Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut and had a research fellowship at the Stockdale Ethics Center at the United State Naval Academy. Her work focuses on the moral dimension of trauma and oppression.
Norman A. Poole works as a consultant neuropsychiatrist in the NHS. Having completed the MSc in Philosophy of Mental Disorder at King's College London he later progressed to their MD(Res) scheme. This paper is a distillation of his doctoral thesis in the medical humanities. Academic interests include cognitive neuropsychiatry, functional neurological disorders, and the philosophy of meaning. He has a chapter on the philosophy of neuropsychiatry in the forthcoming Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry, published a meta-analysis of case reports on abreaction in BJPsych, and has recently submitted a paper on Capgras' delusion to the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry.
Katherine Puddifoot is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Her main research interest is in what should be said about the epistemic status of seemingly irrational thoughts, such as those involved in stereotyping and implicit bias and distorted memory beliefs. Her work stretches across philosophy of psychology and social epistemology, and interacts with issues in philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of law and philosophy of education.
Svetlana Sholokhova is an Adjunct Lecturer in philosophy at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) where she obtained her PhD in philosophy in 2015. In 2017–2018 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Section "Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy" at Heidelberg University Hospitals. Her research interests include philosophy of psychiatry, psychopathology and contemporary French philosophy, with a particular focus on phenomenology and its contribution to psychiatric theory and practice.
Jan-Willem Romeijn, PhD, is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Patrick Sullivan has a professional's background in mental health services dating back to the 1970s. He is currently a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester undertaking a PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence. His research interest is the ethical and legal implications of using harm minimisation approaches with people who self injure. He has previously published papers on this subject in the Journal of Medical Ethics and Clinical Ethics.
Samuel Thoma, MD, PhD, is currently working as a psychiatrist at the Brandenburg Medical School, Immanuel Klinik Rüdersdorf near Berlin. His research focuses on phenomenological psychiatry, social psychiatry and the history of psychiatry. Samuel Thoma is co-editor of the scientific journal "Sozialpsychiatrische Informationen."
His recent publications include: Thoma, S., & Fuchs, T. (2017). Inhabiting the shared world. Phenomenological considerations on sensus communis, social space and schizophrenia. In I. Hippolito, J. Gonçalves, & J. Pereira (Eds.), Schizophrenia and Common Sense – Explaining the Relation Between Madness and Social Values. Cham: Springer.
Hanna M. van Loo, MD, PhD, is a member of the University Medical Center Groningen, the Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
