@article{Petrolini_2021, title={On the Brink of Disaster: Vulnerability to Mental Disorders}, volume={2}, url={https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/10}, abstractNote={<div> <p class="AbstractParagraphs"><span lang="EN-US">The notions of at-risk and subthreshold conditions are increasingly discussed in psychiatry to describe mild, brief, or otherwise atypical syndromes that fail to meet the criteria for clinical relevance. However, the concept of </span><span lang="EN-US">vulnerability</span> <span lang="EN-US">is still underexplored in philosophy of psychiatry. This article discusses psychiatric vulnerability to clarify some conceptual issues about the various factors contributing to vulnerability, the notions of </span><span lang="EN-US">risk </span><span lang="EN-US">and </span><span lang="EN-US">protection, and </span><span lang="EN-US">the idea that there are multiple ways of crossing the threshold to clinical relevance. My goal is to lay the groundwork for a finer-grained discussion on psychiatric vulnerability that reflects the complex nature of mental conditions and illustrates the kind of thinking needed in clinical practice.</span></p> </div>}, number={2}, journal={Philosophy of Medicine}, author={Petrolini, Valentina}, year={2021}, month={Oct.} }