Bibliogr. s. 153-155

One of the most frequent problem taken in the philosophy of psychiatry is the question about the role of neurobiological and environmental factors (natural and socio-cultural) in the development of mental disorders. Investigating the influence of this second group of factors requires psychiatry to adopt a cultural, social or philosophical point of view, and create an interdisciplinary perspective. However, each of the individual disciplines, uses a different language, concepts and paradigms. It may be an obstacle in a consistent description of the phenomenon of mental illness. According to the hypothesis, the concept that can help develop a unified approach to this problem is the processual landscape, the concept of embodied and embedded cognition and James Gibson's idea of affordances. First I shall introduce the problem of the scientific validity of psychiatry, then I am going to discuss the conception of environment based on the theory of processual landscape, James Gibson’s affordances and a proposal to distinguish between space and place. Finally, I shall consider the possibility of applying this understanding of the environment within interdisciplinary psychiatry.