Introducing the New PPP Editorial Team

Readers, please welcome the new Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology editorial team of Senior Editors and our Managing Editor. We are grateful to keep our veteran Senior Editors Tim Thornton, Nancy Potter, Mona Gupta, and Werdie van Staden. However, we are equally grateful to have our new cohort of Senior editors, Awais Aftab, Anna Bergqvist, Derek Strijbos, and Michael Wong, revitalize our efforts. Many of you already know our efficient and capable Managing Editor, Sébastien Arviset, who has been with us for several years now. This new influx of talent and energy we hope will invigorate the Journal and keep our editorial operations smooth and efficient. In alphabetical order, our editors can tell you a little about themselves.

Senior Media Editor Awais Aftab, MD I, s a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and a staff psychiatrist at Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare (Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services), USA. He was born and raised in Pakistan, where he also attended medical school. He is an early career psychiatrist, having completed his psychiatry residency from CWRU/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in 2018 (where he was also the chief resident for education and research), and geriatric psychiatry fellowship from University of California San Diego in 2019. He has received numerous national awards and honors, including the prestigious Laughlin Fellowship by the American College of Psychiatrists and the American Psychiatric Association Leadership Fellowship. His scholarly philosophical interests include concepts of health and disease, psychiatric classification, critical psychiatry, causal explanation, medicalization, psychopharmacology, and experimental philosophy of psychiatry. In 2018, he won the Karl Jaspers Award by the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), and he is now an Executive Council member of AAPP. He has been actively involved in initiatives to educate psychiatrists and trainees on the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. In 2018 he received the CWRU Scholarship in Teaching Award (for contribution to medical education through innovative educational programs), awarded for the development of a didactic series on philosophy of psychiatry for psychiatry residents at his residency program. He has advocated for "conceptual competence" as a framework for incorporating philosophy in psychiatric education (Aftab & Waterman, 2021). He leads the popular interview series "Conversations in Critical Psychiatry" for Psychiatric Times, which engages with commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo. He is active on Twitter (@awaisaftab), where he promotes a philosophical perspective on psychiatric practice, and networks with other members of the philosophy and psychiatry community.

Sébastien Arviset is a former lawyer and Law Clerk at the Quebec Court of Appeal. As a literary translator, he has translated twelve novels from English to French. He is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Université de Montréal. Apart from philosophy of psychiatry, his interests center on aesthetics, ontology, ethics and meta-ethics. He has published a number of articles on the philosophy of literature in French language philosophy journals.

Anna Bergqvist (PhD, MA Res, BA (Hons), Fil. Kand., FRSA) is Reader in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, Fellow of the Centre for Ethics as Study of Human Value at the University of Pardubice, and Visiting Fellow at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford. Anna is Secretary of the Section of Philosophy & Humanities in Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association and Executive Member of the Royal College for Psychiatrists Special Interest Group in Philosophy. She is also Director of the Values-based Practice Theory Network at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, and Executive Member of its Whiteness and Race Equality Network. Her principal research interests are metaethics (especially moral perception), moral psychology and philosophy of psychiatry with a focus on self-ownership and relational moral agency. She is editor of Evaluative Perception (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Philosophy and Museums (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Senior Editor of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. She has also published on shared decision-making and cultural values in psychiatry, aesthetic and moral particularism, narrative, thick evaluative concepts and selected issues in philosophy of language and mind. She is currently...