The Ontology for Phenomenological Psychopathology (OPheP) is an ontology for representing entities from phenomenological approaches to psychopathology for use in research and clinical practice.
The project is being developed using the BFO upper level ontology and following best practices as set out by the OBO Foundry. It is developed beneath the Mental Functioning ontology as a general mid-level ontology for the psychological and psychiatric domains.
Current contributors to this effort include Janna Hastings, Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen, Guilherme Messas, Valter Piedade, Luca Fasciolo Maschião.
To view the ontology, download this repository and open the file OPHEP.owl in the Protégé ontology editing tool.
There are several ways to contribute to the development of this ontology.
If you would like specific content added or changed, either create an Issue in this repository with details of the specific requests, or if you are already familiar with the structure and content of the ontology you can suggest additions directly to specific .csv files in the src/templates folder with a pull request.
To join the discussion about the entities and the further development of the ontology, get in touch with the developers.
Larsen, R. R., Maschião, L. F., Piedade, V. L., Messas, G. & Hastings, J. (2022) More phenomenology in psychiatry? Applied ontology as a method towards integration. Lancet Psychiatry Volume 9, ISSUE 9, P751-758. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00156-0
Larsen, R. R., Maschião, L. F., Piedade, V. L., Messas, G. & Hastings, J. (2022) Applied ontology for phenomenological psychopathology? A cautionary tale – Authors' reply. Lancet Psychiatry Volume 9, ISSUE 10, P766. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00309-1
Hastings, J., & Larsen, R. R. (2021). Integrative paradigms for knowledge discovery in mental health: Overcoming the fragmentation of knowledge inherent in disparate theoretical paradigms. In J. D. Tenenbaum & P. A. Ranallo (Eds.), Mental Health Informatics: Enabling a Learning Mental Healthcare System (pp. 295-316). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Larsen, R. R., & Hastings, J. (2020). Mapping the patient’s experience: An applied ontological framework for phenomenological psychopathology. Phenomenology and Mind, 18, 200-219. doi:10.17454/pam-1815
Larsen, R. R., & Hastings, J. (2018). From affective science to psychiatric disorder: Ontology as a semantic bridge. Frontiers in psychiatry, 9(487). doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00487