Cultural-ecosocial approach to psychiatry

Gómez-Carrillo et al (2023) argue for the value of a cultural–ecosocial approach to integrating neuroscience in psychiatric theory and practice. I’ve mentioned before (eg. see previous post) that relational psychiatry brings together a cultural-ecosocial psychiatry with developments from anti-cognitivist phenomenological and enactive accounts of psychopathology. Gómez-Carrillo et al also make this link in their article by explicitly recognising the importance of 4E cognition, which examines how cognition is embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended. As they say, "training in systems thinking and social science needs to be a key feature of psychiatric education”.