Cognitive Embodiment and Anxiety Disorders

Glas's article is one of several in an interesting special issue focused on applying concepts from enactivism to psychiatry; his focuses on anxiety in particular. Given ongoing developments in work on enactivism, and ongoing debates about how to progress psychiatry, this application is timely. Here, I make three general points about the application of enactivism to psychiatry; I exemplify these with occasional comments on social anxiety disorder.First, as de Haan notes in her introduction, the term enactivism encompasses a number of authors and ideas. Wilson and Foglia note that enactivism falls within a broader literature on "embodied cognition." This literature is partly conceptual, but also relies on...