Lost in dialogue : anthropology, psychopathology, and care / Giovanni Stanghellini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanghellini, Giovanni, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Philosophy.

Psychiatry.

Phenomenological psychology.

Dialogue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasise the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This book puts intersubjectivity front and centre, and provides a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue of the soul with oneself and with others.

Contents:

Cover

Lost in Dialogue

Copyright

Contents

Prologue

Part One: Anthropology: What is a human being?

1 We are dialogue

2 The primacy of relation

3 The life-​world of the I-​You relation

4 The innate 'You': the basic package

5 The dialogue with alterity: narratives and the dialectic of identity

6 A closer look into alterity: eccentricity

7 The Uncanny and the secretly familiar double

8 Epiphanies of alterity: drive

9 Habitus: the emergence of alterity in social situations

10 Emotions: the person in between moods and affects

11 A closer look at moods and affects: intentionality and temporality

12 Emotions and the dialectic of narrative identity

13 Alterity and the recoil of one's actions

14 Alterity and the other person: the anatomy of recognition

15 The basic need for recognition

16 A logic for recognition: heterology

17 An anthropology of non-​recognition

Part Two: Psychopathology: What is a mental disorder?

1 First steps towards the person-​centred, dialectical model of mental disorders

2 What is a symptom?

3 The truth about symptoms

4 Symptom as cypher

5 Conflicting values: the case with post partum depression

6 The body as alterity: the case with gender dysphoria

7 The trauma of non-​recognition

8 Erotomania and idolatrous desire

9 Depression and the idealization of common-​sense desire

10 Borderline existence and the glorification of a thrilled flesh

11 Schizophrenia and the disembodiment of desire

Part Three: Therapy: what is care?

1 The portrait of the clinician as a globally minded citizen

2 The chiasm

3 The P.H.D. method

4 Empathy and beyond

5 Second-​order empathy

6 Unfolding

7 Position-​taking

8 Responsibility

9 Perspective-​taking

10 What is a story?

11 Personal life-​history

12 Intimacy.

Epilogue: Dialectic Method and Dialogue

References

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-251215-3

0-19-183426-2

0-19-251214-5