For #MHAW2020 I will share some of the research interests of our wonderful @IMH_UoB and @PTRBirmingham PhD students /1

Let’s start with @RRitunnano who is asking whether #delusions can have #meaning and give #meaning /2

Next is @EugeniaLancell1 who is asking whether #delusions are adaptive and if so in what sense /3

How are #delusions formed? @fedebng investigates a number of issues in this area /4

How should we understand the experience of #loneliness? How does it differ from #solitude? @ValeriaNMotta addresses those questions! /5

Next @lucypphilosophy is interested in understanding young people’s experiences of #anxiety /6

How can we best characterise #psychopathy and encourage people with that diagnosis to take an interest in their future selves? That’s @JaneKisbey’s research /7

Moral #responsibility and attribution of #blame in child soldiers: @J_T_Suth investigates /8

Is there any benefit in #confabulation? And how does our tendency to confabulate impact on virtue #ethics? Those are some of @kmurphyhollies’s questions /9

What is the role of #philosophy in #psychotherapy? Is Plato’s account of self-knowledge underlying some key ideas in CBT? Chloe Bamboulis explores such questions (and she submitted the image below to the UoB Images of Research competition) /10

How do people with #psychosis make sense of reality and when do they experience epistemic #injustice? Aneela Khan asks.(Her “image of research” below) /11

Rafael Ambriz Gonzalez explores anti-realism about mental #disorders /12

Is #OCD a pathological response to #uncertainty? Joseph Houlders is developing such an account—the photo is of Merleau-Ponty who features prominently in Joe’s research... /13

Noorit Larsen explores the phenomenon of #forgiveness in people experiencing #mood disorders /14

How do blunted affect and social #withdrawal link to #suicide in people with #schizophrenia? @mxgrigoriou investigates /15

Finally, Reinier Shuur investigates the problem of #normativity and concept validity in psychiatric research /16