Affordances and spatial agency in psychopathology
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2023-08-07
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Affordances are action-possibilities, ways of relating to and act ing on things in our world. They help us understand how these
things mean what they do and how we have bodily access to our
world more generally. But what happens when this access is
ruptured or impeded? I consider this question in the context of
psychopathology and reports that describe this experience.
I argue that thinking about the bodily consequences of losing
access to everyday affordances can help us better understand
these reports. An affordance-based approach to psychopathol ogy can illuminate some of the causes, as well as the experiential
character and consequences, of affective disorders and dimin ished spatial agency in self-world disturbances. It also highlights
some under-explored ethical and political dimensions of these
issues that need further attention.
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Affordances; agency; affect; psychopathology