The UT Southwestern Department of Psychiatry is a hub of editorial and publication activities in the fields of psychiatric ethics and the philosophy of psychiatry.

The Division is the managing editorial office for the Johns Hopkins University Press journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (PPP).

Co-edited by K. W. M. “Bill” Fulford and UT Southwestern’s John Z. Sadler, PPP is the first “specialty” journal in the philosophy of medicine academic field, and is now in its 14th year of publication. The official journal of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (USA) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Interest Group (UK), PPP publishes scholarly papers which address the conceptual and philosophical issues in psychiatric practice, research, and education; and brings the extraordinary phenomena of the mental health field for philosophical reflection.

Fulford and Sadler have also co-edited, for ten years, the “History and Philosophy” section in the popular review journal Current Opinion in Psychiatry, having recently added the University of Zurich psychiatrist-historian Paul Hoff to the editorial team.

Fulford and Sadler, along with the Oxford philosopher Katherine Morris and the Italian psychiatrist Giovanni Stanghellini, also developed and co-edit the Oxford University Press book series “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry”.

With its inaugural volume Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry in 2003, the IPPP Series will release its 20th original volume in January 2009 - a robust success story for an academic book series after little more than five years.