 The journal is an aspect and element of a broader research activity reflecting the moulding and development of a new specialized system of knowledge, viz., the philosophy of psychiatry which arose in the middle of the nineties as an addition to both analytic philosophy and to the interpretation of mental health care.The new philosophy of psychiatry aims at a better understanding of psychiatry through an analysis of some of its fundamental concepts.Along with the journal "Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology", this new discipline has an international network with regular conferences, numerous books, institutions and the masters programme based on the "Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry".