Ivan O. Godfroid

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Ivan O. Godfroid is a writer and a psychiatrist, born in Boussu (Belgium) on May 26th, 1971.

Godfroid's work is an attempt to unify science and art, as two aspects of the same underlying reality. Consequently, his books contain theoretical discussions alongside poetry. As Godfroid's interpretation of humanity is rather dark and cruel, he is sometimes called a "goth philosopher".^{[citation needed]}

Godfroid is the author of several essays on existence and has developed the concept of "Psychiagenia" [1] in the field of philosophy of mind. According to this speculation, mind and brain are the manifestations of the same underlying reality, a "common root", which Godfroid calls psychiagenia. This monist theory was developed as a reaction to dualism and materialism.^[1]

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1999 : La psychiatrie de la femme (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France)
2003 : L'effet placebo. Un voyage à la frontière du corps et de l'esprit. (Charleroi, Socrate Éditions Promarex)
2004 : Larmes de venin. Essai sur le pouvoir. (L'ombre close des portes celtiques, Livre III) (Charleroi, Socrate Éditions Promarex)
2005 : Pacte de contrition. Essai sur la folie. (L'ombre close des portes celtiques, Livre IV) (Charleroi, Socrate Éditions Promarex)