CFP: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Karl Jaspers Award
Call for Papers: Association for the Advancement of
Philosophy and
Psychiatry Karl Jaspers Award
Submission deadline: Sunday, December 1 2013
The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and
Psychiatry (AAPP)
announces a competition for residents and fellows in
psychiatry, and
graduate students in philosophy, psychology, or related
fields.
The Karl Jaspers Award is given for the best solely
authored,
unpublished paper related to the subject of philosophy
and psychiatry.
Appropriate topics for the essay include, among others,
the mind-body
problem, psychiatric methodology, nosology and diagnostic
issues,
epistemology, biopsychosocial integration, the philosophy
of science,
philosophical aspects of the history of psychiatry,
psychodynamic,
hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches, and
psychiatric ethics.
The Jaspers Award is announced at our AAPP Annual
Meeting, held
concurrently with the American Psychiatric
Association’s Annual
Meeting. In 2014,
the meeting will the weekend May 3-4, in New York.
The prize carries a cash prize of $350 and recognition in
AAPP publications.
All entries should be sent to Professor Christian Perring
The deadline for entries is December 1, 2013. Suggested
length is
between 4,000-6,000 words.