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Publication The Parkinson Care Advocate: Integrating Care Delivery(Frontiers Media S.A., 2017) Sokol, Leonard L.; Shapiro, Debbie; Young, Michael; Wise, Adina H.; Hadelsberg, Uri P.; Kaufman, Yakir; Espay, Alberto J.; Merola, AristidePublication On the Scaffolding of Selfhood: Self-Representation and the Limits of Misidentification(2016-05-17) Young, MichaelInsofar as psychiatrists and neurologists tend to the mental wellbeing of others, their work is interwoven with philosophical concerns and theoretical assumptions about the nature of the mind, its myriad functions and the conditions governing its multiform pathologies. That the mind figures so prominently in their ordinary language attests to the wealth of insights that stands to be gained through a dialogue with philosophy. In one of the earliest efforts to taxonomize psychiatric medicine, General Psychopathology, Jaspers incisively remarks that “the exclusion of philosophy would be disastrous for psychiatry…if any psychopathologist thinks he can disregard philosophy and leave it aside as useless he will eventually be defeated by it in an unperceived way” (770). At the very least, philosophy can offer psychiatry, neurology, and indeed all of medicine a more refined vocabulary to describe the human phenomena it aims to capture. Adding to Jaspers’ remarks, it is important to appreciate the significance of the reverse as well: a philosophical enterprise that confines itself to its own increasingly scholastic linguistic games and overlooks the findings of neurology, psychiatry and the neurosciences will eventually be overwhelmed by them in some form or other. These considerations animate the present work, which examines the crucial yet underexplored convergence of philosophy and neuropsychiatry with respect to self-representation and first-personal authority, particularly through the clinical lens of thought-insertion delusions and mirror synesthesia, and illuminates a novel account of selfhood emerging at this intersection.