Emotions and personhood : exploring fragility, making sense of vulnerability / by Giovanni Stanghellini and René Rosfort.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanghellini, Giovanni.

Contributor:

Rosfort, René.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotion-focused therapy.

Emotions.

Mental health.

Physical Description:

xi, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

How does a person experience emotions? What is the relationship between the experiential and biological dimensions of emotions? How do emotions figure in a person's relation to the world and to other people? How do emotions feature in human vulnerability to mental illness? Do they play a significant role in the fragile balance between mental health and illness? If emotions are in fact significant, how are they relevant for treatment? Emotions and personhood are important notions within the field of mental health care. What they are and how they are related is less evident. This book provides a framework for understanding this. The authors argue for an account of emotions and personhood that attempts to understand human emotions from the combined approach of philosophy and psychopathology, taking its models particularly from hermeneutical phenomenology, and from dialectical psychopathology. Within the book, the authors develop a basic set of concepts for understanding what emotional experience means for a human person, with the assumption that human emotional experience is fragile - a fact which entails vulnerability to mental disturbance. Drawing on research from psychiatry, psychopathology, philosophy, and neuroscience, Emotions and Personhood will be valuable for both students and researchers in these disciplines, and more broadly, for those within the field of mental health. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Troubled Selfhood

1 Subjectivity and Naturalism 19

Philosophy and Psychopathology in View of Naturalism 19

Relaxed Naturalism 23

A Phenomenological Alternative 27

Hermeneutical Phenomenology 29

Why Ricoeur's Theory? 32

Reason and Sensibility 40

Wounded Thinking 46

2 A Hermeneutics of 'I Am' 53

The Affective Generation of Values 54

Fragility of the Heart 57

Interpretative Recovery of Selfhood 63

Narratives of Time 66

3 Body and Personhood 71

Bodily Ambivalence 72

Personhood and the Narrating Self 79

Rules and Practices 86

The Good Life 88

An Ontology of Care 92

Becoming a Person through Otherness 93

Part II Fragile Personhood

4 Conceptual Clarity Amidst an Abundance of Feelings 99

To Name or Not to Name a Feeling 100

Feeling Theories 104

Cognitive Theories 107

Narrative Theories 110

Neuroscientific Investigations of Emotions 115

Concepts, Phenomenology, and Ontology 129

5 Ambivalent Personhood 133

Ontological Ambiguity 134

The Personal Animal 137

Identity and Feelings of Ambivalence 142

6 Emotions and Personhood 149

The Feeling of Emotion 150

A Choreography of Emotions 155

Moods and Affects 163

Intentionality and Temporality 166

Narrating Our Emotions 170

A Hermeneutics of Care 180

7 The Feeling Brain 188

Considerations on Evolution and Intentionality 189

Spinoza, Ricoeur, and Neuroscience on the Conatus 192

Evolutionary Well-Being 198

The Pragmatic Meaning of Life 202

Bad Moods, Personhood, and Vulnerability 212

Part III Vulnerable Minds

8 Schizophrenia as a Disorder of Mood 221

The Clinical Phenomenology of Schizophrenia 222

Delusional Mood, Perplexity, and the End-of-the-World Experience 228

The Unfathomed Flatness of Lived Space 230

The Objectualisation of Material Things 235

The Disintegration of Temporality 236

The Source of Vitality 241

Disattunement and Disincarnation 246

Disembodiment and Appearance of Things 248

A Hermeneutics of Schizophrenic Life-Worlds 252

Metaphysical Enactment 257

9 Borderland 261

Between Dysphoria and Anger 261

Varieties of Bad Moods and Mood Disorders 264

Lived Time, Other Persons, and Otherness 272

Invalidation Trauma 275

Temporal Fragmentation and Narrative Identity 277

Otherness Lost and Found 280

Indignation, Resignation, and Retaliation 284

Give Us Our Daily Trauma 287

A Hermeneutics of Traumatic Existence 290

A Miscarried Hermeneutics of the I Am 292

10 Emotions, Vulnerability, and a Therapy of Care 296

The Fragile Dialectic of Selfhood and Otherness 296

Disintegration of Logos and Pathos 302

A Dialectical Conception of Mental Illness 306

Towards a Therapy of Care 310.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-332) and index.

ISBN:

9780199660575

0199660573

OCLC:

820779243