The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder Perspectives of Heidegger’s Thought in Psychopathology /

• Main Author: Kouba, Petr (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Contributions To Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 75
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Phenomenology.; Psychiatry.; Clinical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

This book provides a critical introduction to Heidegger’s impact on psychiatry and psychology, and has a focus on the application of his philosophy to psychiatry. This is a complete revision of Heidegger’s existential philosophy in the light of psychopathological phenomena. Readers will find here a...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methodological Pitfalls
• 3 The Strategy of Sein und Zeit
• 4 The Problem of Mental Disorder
• 5 Poetic Experience as Point of Departure for a  New Approach to Insanity
• 6 Psychopathological Consequences
• 7 Conclusion.