Contexts of Suffering - A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology

This book explores new phenomenological research on the structural disruptions of spatiality, temporality, and understanding in the context of anxiety and depressive disorders. It offers critiques of mainstream psychopathology, taking a transdisciplinary approach to the relationship between mental illness and self-constitution.

Sommario

Introduction / Part I: Phenomenology and the Limits of Contemporary Psychopathology / 1. Medicalizing Mental Illness / 2. Heidegger and the Structures of Subjectivity / Part II: Structural Breakdowns: Space, Time, and Understanding / 3. Disturbances of Spatiality / 4. Disturbances of Temporality / 5. The Death of Meaning / Part III: Hermeneutic Psychiatry: Situating Mental Illness / 6. What is Hermeneutic Psychiatry? / 7. Situating Social Anxiety / 8. Situating Neurasthenia / 9. Situating Rage / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index

Info autore

Kevin Aho is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the author of Existentialism: An Introduction (Polity, 2014), Heidegger's Neglect of the Body (SUNY Press, 2009), and co-author of Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Illness, and Disease (Lexington Books, 2008).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kevin Aho
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.08.2019
• EAN: 9781786611888
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-188-8
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 227 mm x 12 mm
• Peso: 249 g
• Serie: New Heidegger Research
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism