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DESCRIPTION:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Recalcitrant Emotion: Relocat
 ing the Seat of Irrationality \n\nBy Somogy Varga and Asbjørn Steglich\, P
 hDs\, Professors of Philosophy\, Department of Philosophy and the History 
 of Ideas\, Aarhus University.\n\nZoom registration\n\nAbstract: It is wide
 ly agreed that obsessive-compulsive disorder involves irrationality. But w
 here in the complex of states and processes that constitutes OCD should th
 is irrationality be located? A pervasive assumption in both the psychiatri
 c and philosophical literature is that the seat of irrationality is locate
 d in the obsessive thoughts characteristic of OCD. Building on a puzzle ab
 out insight into OCD (Taylor 2020)\, we challenge this pervasive assumptio
 n\, and argue instead that the irrationality of OCD is located in the emot
 ions that are characteristic of OCD\, such as anxiety or fear. In particul
 ar\, we propose to understand the irrationality of OCD as a matter of harb
 ouring recalcitrant emotions. We argue that this account not only solves t
 he puzzle about insight\, but also makes better sense of how OCD sufferers
  experience and describe their condition and helps explain some otherwise 
 puzzling cognitive processes and patterns of behavior associated with OCD.
 \n\nBio: Somogy Varga is professor of philosophy at Aarhus University. He 
 completed his PhD in philosophy at the Goethe University\, Frankfurt am Ma
 in. He previously worked at the University of Memphis (2012-2019)\, the In
 stitute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück (2009-2012)\, 
 and the Institute of Social Research at Goethe University Frankfurt (2007-
 2009). He is the author of Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal (Routledge\, 2
 011)\, Naturalism\, Interpretation\, and Mental Disorder (Oxford Universit
 y Press\, 2015)\, and Scaffolded Minds (MIT Press\, 2019).\n\nBio: Asbjørn
  Steglich-Petersen (PhD Cambridge 2008) is professor of philosophy and hea
 d of department at Aarhus University\, Denmark. His research focuses on is
 sues in epistemology and philosophy of psychology\, and has appeared in jo
 urnals such as Mind\, Philosophical Studies\, Mind and Language\, and Phil
 osophical Quarterly.\n
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SUMMARY:Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry & the Culture\, Min
 d and Brain Speaker Series
URL:/psychiatry/channels/event/division-social-and-tra
 nscultural-psychiatry-culture-mind-and-brain-speaker-series-337123
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