Lost in Dialogue

Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-879206-2
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry

The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice.

This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and center. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue of the soul with oneself and with others. Throughout, the book builds on the assumption that to be human means to be in dialogue. It uses dialogue as a unitary concept to address three essential issues for clinical practice: 'What is a human being?', 'What is mental pathology'?, and 'What is care?'. To be human - it is argued - means to be in
dialogue with oneself and with other persons. Thus, mental pathology is the interruption of this dialogue - both of the person with the alterity that inhabits them, and with the alterity incarnated in other persons. Therefore, therapy is a dialogue with a method whose aim is to re-enact one's
interrupted dialogue with alterity.

Lost in Dialogue provides a method to approximate the Other, to understand its experiences, actions, and in general, understand the world in which it lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stanghellini, Giovanni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanni Stanghellini, MD and Dr. Phil. honoris causa, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, is professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at "G. d'Annunzio" University (Chieti, Italy) and Profesor Adjuncto "D. Portales" University (Santiago, Chile). He chairs the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Psychiatry and the Humanities, and the Association of European Psychiatrists (EPA) Section on Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is also founding chair of the
Scuola di Psicoterapia e Fenomenologia Clinica (Florence). Among his books, all published by Oxford University Press: Nature and Narrative (co-edited with KWM Fulford, K. Morris and JZ Sadler, OUP 2003), Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies. The Psychopathology of Common Sense (OUP 2004),
Emotions and Personhood (with R. Rosfort, OUP 2013), One Hundred Years of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology (co-edited with T. Fuchs, OUP 2013) and the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry