Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 421 g
Body, Self, World
Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 421 g
ISBN: 978-1-032-99525-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Functional neurological disorder (FND)—historically associated with hysteria—remains one of the most mysterious and contested conditions in contemporary medicine. Situated at the murky intersection of neurology and psychiatry, it raises urgent questions about the nature of illness, embodiment, and the limits of biomedical explanation.
In A Phenomenology of Functional Neurological Disorder, Kevin Aho offers the first sustained phenomenological analysis of FND. Drawing on insights from key figures such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Jaspers, Aho explores how the disorder disrupts the structure of embodiment, unsettles one’s self-perception, and alters the experiences of space and time. Integrating philosophical analysis with first-person accounts, including his own, he reveals the often-overlooked existential dimensions of a condition frequently misunderstood or dismissed.
Challenging the entrenched divide between mind and body in establishment medicine, this book advances a new framework for understanding FND—one that has significant implications for philosophy of psychiatry, medical humanities, and clinical practice. By illuminating what it means and what it feels like to live with the disorder, Aho not only deepens our theoretical grasp of illness but also calls for more humane and responsive forms of care.
This timely and original work will be essential reading for scholars and students of phenomenology, philosophy of medicine, and psychiatry, as well as for clinicians seeking a richer understanding of patient experience.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is Functional Neurological Disorder
A Phenomenological Approach to FND
Chapter Overview
Chapter 1. From Hysteria to FND
1.1 Hysteria: A Brief History
1.2 Hysteria and Neurasthenia
1.3 FND and the DSM
1.4 The Crisis of Neuroscience and the Role of Phenomenology
Chapter 2. The Search for a Diagnosis
2.1 The Uncanny and the Collapse of Understanding
2.2 The Problem of Certainty
2.3 Critical Phenomenology and the Harms of Invalidation
2.4 The Problem of Psychogenesis
Chapter 3. Body, Shame, and Guilt
3.1 The Phenomenology of Shame
3.2 Clinical Shame
3.3 Shame and Guilt
3.4 Shame and Women’s Bodies
Chapter 4. Time, Space, and Intersubjectivity
4.1 The Loss of Ecstatic Time
4.2 Crip Time, Intersectionality, and the Achievement Society
4.3 The Collapse of Space
4.3 Loss of the With-World
Chapter 5. Chaos Narratives
5.1 Narrative Identity
5.2 Narrative Chaos
5.3 The Grief of Chaos
5.4 The Problem of the Sick Role
5.5 Healing as Possibilizing
Chapter 6. Empathy, Acceptance, and the Limits of Neuroscience
6.1 The Meaning of Being a Person
6.2 The Worldly Locus of FND
6.3 Empathy and the Un-Understandable
6.4 The Problem of Acceptance
6.5 Authenticity and Existential Healing
Chapter 7. Conclusion
7.1 The Loss of Medical Power
7.2 The Art of Healing
Afterword
References
Index
