Zaburzenia psychiczne zwierząt w perspektywie antropologicznej. Rekonesans

It is still widely believed that only people can be mentally ill, and that this trait distinguishes usfrom other species. e interest of 21st-century scholars representing the humanities in the issueof animal mental disorders can be studied from the perspective of posthumanism and the animal turn, in that it means crossing another line between the “human” and the “non-human.” Inher article, Magdalena Kozhevnikova highlightsthe most common mental disorders diagnosedin pets and captive animals, provides examplesof unethical animal experiments in psychology, and briefly discusses the phenomenon of animaladdiction and suicide. Her findings allow her to emphasize that, while analogies to mental disor-ders in humans can and should be used in the study of mental disorders in non-human animals,their primary goal of animal research ought to beto study the psyche of non-human animals.