Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare

Lisa Bortolotti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK, affiliated with both the Philosophy Department and the Institute of Mental Health. She is a philosopher of the cognitive sciences with special interests in agency and mental health. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophical Psychology (Taylor and Francis), and the author of Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (OUP 2009), The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs (OUP 2020), and Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury 2023). With Palgrave she published Delusions in Context (2018), an edited collection on delusions with contributions by clinicians, lived experience researchers, psychologists, and philosophers, also available Open Access.

Chapter 1:Being understood: epistemic injustice towards young people seeking support for their mental health.- Chapter 2:Challenging stereotypes about young people who hear voices.- Chapter 3:Reacting to demoralization and investigating the experience of dignity in psychosis: reflections from an acute psychiatric ward.-Chapter 4:Comparing depression and borderline personality disorder diagnoses through the lens of epistemic injustice.-Chapter 5:Resisting perceptions of patient untrustworthiness.- Chapter 6:Preserving dignity and epistemic justice in palliative care for patients with serious mental health problems.- Chapter 7:Promoting good living and social health in dementia.- Chapter 8:Ameliorating epistemic injustice with digital health technologies.