HEURYSTYKA POZNANIA ROZPROSZONEGO W PSYCHOPATOLOGII
THE DISTRIBUTED COGNITION APPROACH IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the nature of psychopathology in the con- text of the idea of distributed cognition. Distributed cognition is a methodological appro- ach to the analysis of cognitive systems and the relationships among their underlying components. In the first part of this paper, I describe the key assumptions of distributed cognition and consider its utility in the fields of philosophy of psychiatry and psychology. Having done so, I attempt to depict addiction as a state that cannot be described solely from an individualistic point of view, but rather as a distributed phenomenon. This stand- point corresponds to Hanna Pickard’s account and the concept of affordances, which has increasingly been used in the context of psychopathology in recent years.

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