Towards a New Philosophy of Mental Health ─ Perspectives from Neuroscience and the Humanities

Drozdstoy St. Stoyanov is Full Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Psychology and Person Centered Medicine at Medical University, Plovdiv, and Honorary Lecturer in the Clinical Psychology and Counselling program at Sofia University Faculty of Philosophy. He is also a psychiatrist in St Ivan Rilski State Psychiatric Hospital. Professor Stoyanov is a member of both the Philosophy and Humanities section of the World Psychiatric Association and the Bulgarian Academy of Science and Arts. He is also Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, Vice Chair of Philosophy at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, and Vice President of the European Association for Person Centered Health Care (ESPCH).