Warren A. Kinghorn | Scholars@Duke

Warren A. Kinghorn
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Medical Professionalism
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry
Philosophy of Psychiatry

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2021
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2018

Contact Information

407 Chapel Drive, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Divinity School, Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708
warren.kinghorn@duke.edu (919) 660-3584

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- D.Th., Duke University 2011
- M.D., Harvard University 2003
- M.T.S., Duke University 2002
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2015 - 2020
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology, Divinity School, Duke University 2015 - 2020
- Associate Research Professor of Psychiatry and Pastoral and Moral Theology, Divinity School, Duke University 2015 - 2020
- Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2014 - 2018
- Assistant Research Professor of Pastoral and Moral Theology, Divinity School, Duke University 2010 - 2016
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2010 - 2015
- Consulting Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2007 - 2010
Recognition
In the News
- NOV 4, 2015 Christianity Today
  
  Dr. Warren Kinghorn: How a PTSD diagnosis can help, and harm
- OCT 25, 2015 Duke Today
  
  Can the Church Address Our Most Pressing Health Care Needs?
- MAY 29, 2015 Christianity Today
  
  Dr. Warren Kinghorn, Divinity School alumni comment: Formed by war
- MAR 7, 2014 Duke Today
  
  Divinity Conference Addresses Pastoral Care for the Sexually Abused
- DEC 4, 2013 Faith & Leadership
  
  On Churches' Responsibility to Minister to People With Mental Illness
Research
Selected Grants
- Theology Medicine Culture Fellowship Program awarded by Issachar Fund 2020 - 2023
- God & the book of Nature-Fellowship awarded by University of Edinburgh 2019 - 2022
- Innovative practices of health and health care in their Local Communities awarded by Duke Endowment 2017 - 2022
- St. Andrews University Fellowship awarded by University of St. Andrews 2017 - 2019
- Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Christian Faith Communities awarded by Calvin Institute of Christian Worship 2017 - 2018
- Flourishing mental health in caregivers: A mixed methods study of religion and virtuous practices across four countries and religious traditions awarded by St. Louis University 2016 - 2018
External Relationships
- Christian Medical and Dental Associations
- Furman University
- Hyde Park Institute
- Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Trinity International University
- University of Michigan
- University of Virginia
- Veritas Forum
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Cahill, Jonathan M., Warren Kinghorn, and Lydia Dugdale. “Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans.” J Med Ethics 49, no. 5 (May 2023): 361–66. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2022-108163.
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  - Kinghorn, W. “Crisis in psychiatric diagnosis? Epistemological humility in the DSM era.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom) 45, no. 6 (December 1, 2020): 581–97. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa026.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren. “Challenging the Hegemony of the Symptom: Reclaiming Context in PTSD and Moral Injury.” J Med Philos 45, no. 6 (November 30, 2020): 644–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa023.
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  - Eagle, David E., Warren A. Kinghorn, Heather Parnell, Cyrilla Amanya, Vanroth Vann, Senti Tzudir, Venkata Gopala Krishna Kaza, Chimdi Temesgen Safu, Kathryn Whetten, and Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell. “Religion and Caregiving for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers Across Four Religious Traditions and Five Global Contexts.” Journal of Religion and Health 59, no. 3 (June 2020): 1666–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-019-00955-y.
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  - Coles, Theresa M., Sarah M. Wilson, Bo Kim, Jean C. Beckham, and Warren A. Kinghorn. “From obligation to opportunity: future of patient-reported outcome measures at the Veterans Health Administration.” Transl Behav Med 9, no. 6 (November 25, 2019): 1157–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz121.
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  - Kinghorn, W. A. “Health Care as Vocation? Practicing Faithfully in an Age of Disenchantment.” Christian Bioethics 25, no. 3 (November 5, 2019): 257–65. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbz009.
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  - Kinghorn, W. A., C. L. M. Keyes, H. E. Parnell, D. E. Eagle, B. M. Biru, C. Amanya, V. Vann, et al. “Putting virtues in context: engaging the VIA classification of character strengths in caregiving for orphans and vulnerable children across cultures.” Journal of Positive Psychology 14, no. 6 (November 2, 2019): 845–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1579363.
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  - Proeschold-Bell, R. J., N. J. Molokwu, C. L. M. Keyes, M. M. Sohail, D. E. Eagle, H. E. Parnell, W. A. Kinghorn, et al. “Caring and thriving: An international qualitative study of caregivers of orphaned and vulnerable children and strategies to sustain positive mental health,” March 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.12.024.
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  - Kinghorn, W. “Meeting Christian voluntarism on its own terms.” Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 25, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 275–78. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2018.0037.
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  - Kinghorn, W. A. “Taking our meds faithfully? Christian engagements with psychiatric medication.” Christian Bioethics 24, no. 3 (October 26, 2018): 216–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cby007.
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  - Kinghorn, W. “"As one infirm, I approach the balm of life": Psychiatric medication, agency, and freedom in the psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas.” Christian Bioethics 24, no. 3 (October 26, 2018): 265–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cby008.
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  - Kinghorn, W. “The politics of virtue: An Aristotelian-Thomistic engagement with the VIA classification of character strengths.” Journal of Positive Psychology 12, no. 5 (September 3, 2017): 436–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2016.1228009.
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  - Kinghorn, W. “Augustine, divine agency, and therapeutic change.” Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 24, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 257–60. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2017.0035.
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  - Kinghorn, W. A. ““I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer.” Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging 28, no. 1–2 (April 2, 2016): 98–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2015.1046633.
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  - Verhey, A., and W. Kinghorn. “"The hope to which he has called you": Medicine in Christian apocalyptic context.” Christian Bioethics 22, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 21–38. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbv030.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren A. “American Christian Engagement With Mental Health and Mental Illness.” Psychiatr Serv 67, no. 1 (January 2016): 107–10. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400542.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren. “Moral engagement, combat trauma, and the lure of psychiatric dualism: why psychiatry is more than a technical discipline.” Harv Rev Psychiatry 23, no. 1 (2015): 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000042.
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  - George, Linda K., Warren A. Kinghorn, Harold G. Koenig, Patricia Gammon, and Dan G. Blazer. “Why gerontologists should care about empirical research on religion and health: transdisciplinary perspectives.” Gerontologist 53, no. 6 (December 2013): 898–906. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnt002.
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  - Muzyk, Andrew J., Crystal D. White, Warren A. Kinghorn, and Grace C. Thrall. “A psychopharmacology course for psychiatry residents utilizing active-learning and residents-as-teachers to develop life-long learning skills.” Acad Psychiatry 37, no. 5 (September 2013): 332–35. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.12060124.
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  - Antiel, Ryan M., Warren A. Kinghorn, Darcy A. Reed, and Frederic W. Hafferty. “Professionalism: etiquette or habitus?” Mayo Clin Proc 88, no. 7 (July 2013): 651–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.05.008.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren. “Conscience as clinical judgment: medical education and the virtue of prudence.” Virtual Mentor 15, no. 3 (March 1, 2013): 202–5. https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2013.15.3.medu1-1303.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren. “"Hope that is seen is no hope at all:" theological constructions of hope in psychotherapy.” Bull Menninger Clin 77, no. 4 (2013): 369–94. https://doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2013.77.4.369.
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  - Phillips, James, Allen Frances, Michael A. Cerullo, John Chardavoyne, Hannah S. Decker, Michael B. First, Nassir Ghaemi, et al. “The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion.” Philos Ethics Humanit Med 7 (December 18, 2012): 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-7-14.
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  - Phillips, James, Allen Frances, Michael A. Cerullo, John Chardavoyne, Hannah S. Decker, Michael B. First, Nassir Ghaemi, et al. “The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis.” Philos Ethics Humanit Med 7 (July 5, 2012): 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-7-8.
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  - Phillips, James, Allen Frances, Michael A. Cerullo, John Chardavoyne, Hannah S. Decker, Michael B. First, Nassir Ghaemi, et al. “The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis.” Philos Ethics Humanit Med 7 (May 23, 2012): 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-7-9.
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  - Phillips, James, Allen Frances, Michael A. Cerullo, John Chardavoyne, Hannah S. Decker, Michael B. First, Nassir Ghaemi, et al. “The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis.” Philos Ethics Humanit Med 7 (January 13, 2012): 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-7-3.
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  - Kinghorn, W. “Combat Trauma and moral fragmentation: A theological account of moral injury.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 32, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 57–74. https://doi.org/10.1353/sce.2012.0041.
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  - Daaleman, Timothy P., Warren A. Kinghorn, Warren P. Newton, and Keith G. Meador. “Rethinking professionalism in medical education through formation.” Fam Med 43, no. 5 (May 2011): 325–29.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren A. “Whose disorder?: a constructive MacIntyrean critique of psychiatric nosology.” J Med Philos 36, no. 2 (April 2011): 187–205. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhr006.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren A. “Medical education as moral formation: an Aristotelian account of medical professionalsim.” Perspect Biol Med 53, no. 1 (2010): 87–105. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.0.0145.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren A., Matthew D. McEvoy, Andrew Michel, and Michael Balboni. “Professionalism in modern medicine: does the emperor have any clothes?” Acad Med 82, no. 1 (January 2007): 40–45. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ACM.0000249911.79915.4d.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren A., and Joseph P. McEvoy. “Aripiprazole: pharmacology, efficacy, safety and tolerability.” Expert Rev Neurother 5, no. 3 (May 2005): 297–307. https://doi.org/10.1586/14737175.5.3.297.
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  - Kinghorn, W. “Should doctors ever lie on behalf of patients?” Jama 282, no. 17 (November 3, 1999): 1674.
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  - Kinghorn, Warren. “Indecision.” Jama 280, no. 17 (November 4, 1998): 1538.
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- Book Sections
  - McCarty, B., and W. Kinghorn. “Theology and Medicine.” In Spirituality and Religion within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice, edited by M. Balboni and J. Peteet, 341–54. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  - Briscoe, J., and W. Kinghorn. “Spirituality, Religion, and Rational Suicide.” In Rational Suicide in the Elderly Clinical, Ethical, and Sociocultural Aspects, edited by R. McCue and M. Balasubramaniam, 187–202. Springer, 2016.
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  - Briscoe, J., and W. Kinghorn. “Spirituality, Religion, and Rational Suicide.” In Rational Suicide in the Elderly Clinical, Ethical, and Sociocultural Aspects, edited by R. McCue and M. Balasubramaniam, 187–202. Springer, 2016.
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  - Kinghorn, W. A. “Critical response to the psychiatric case studies: A psychiatrist’s perspective.” In Spiritual Care in Practice Case Studies in Healthcare Chaplaincy, 186–94. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015.
  - Kinghorn, W. A. “The biopolitics of defining ‘mental disorder.’.” In Making the DSM-5 Concepts and Controversies. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
  - Kinghorn, W. A. “Healing for All Their Flesh.” In Healing for All Their Flesh: Essays in Spirituality, Theology, and Health., edited by J. Levin and K. G. Meador. West Conshohocken, NJ: Templeton Foundation Press, 2012.
  - Sinnott-Armstrong, W., and J. Summers. “Scrupulous Treatment (In preparation).” In Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections and New Perspectives, edited by D. Moseley and G. Gala. New York: Routledge, n.d.
- Conference Papers
  - Kinghorn, W. “Presence of mind: Thomistic prudence and contemporary mindfulness practices.” In Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 35:83–102, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1353/sce.2015.0009.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Service to the Profession
- Participant. Faculty Success Program. National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). 2020 2020

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Selected Grants

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Conference Papers

Recent Courses

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Service to the Profession