Medicine in metamorphosis : speech, presence and integration / Martti Siirala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siirala, Martti, author.

Contributor:

Tola, Jaakko S., translator.

Lomas, Herbert, translator.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

Studies in existentialism and phenomenology

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Standardized Title:

Peruskatsomustemme merkityksestä lääketieteessä. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech disorders.

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 164 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<STRONG>Tavistock Press</STRONG> was established as a co-operative venture between the <STRONG>Tavistock Institute</STRONG> and <STRONG>Routledge & Kegan Paul</STRONG> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <BR> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <STRONG>Routledge,</STRONG> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <EM>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Five Children with Disturbed Speech Development; Pentti; Heikki; Eero; Erik; Lauri; 2 Constellations; I Human presence: the foundation of speech; II Diagnosis and its differentiation; III Basic structural components of disease constellations; IV Why 'constellations'?; 3 Aetiology; I Control through reduction: the dominant attitude in medicine; II The primacy of the reductive attitude, and its influence on interpretation and treatment

III Basic forms of cause-detection various forms of knowledge and corresponding responsibilities; IV Cause and effect as processes of various dimensions; the causal network; V Man as the receiver of man Unrealized potentialities: guilt, sickness, and defect as securities for the debt of unlived life; VI The basic anthropological channel of causation in defects and diseases; 4 Analysis of some Key Concepts; I Psyche/Soma thinking: the undifferentiated basic bipolar pattern; II Man as a bodily existing being; III On the anthroopology of speech and some speech disturbances

5 The Disease ProcessI Hope, despair, and the history of receiving: the formation of the disease (defect) process; II Disease as an alarm, and the transference as the alarm received; 6 Prognosis; I Dimensions of prognosis; II Factors affecting prognosis; III Prognosis, experience of the actual situation, and evaluation; 7 Examination and Treatment; I A dialectic between reductive control and jointly responsible awareness; II Freud's principle of abstinence; III The anthropological structure of the therapeutic task; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

"Originally published in Finnish under the title Peruskatsomustemme merkityksestä lääketieteessä ... as a supplement to the Sosiealilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti (Journal of Social Medicine), October 1966, by the Finnish Medical Association."

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Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-43600-6

1-138-86747-0

1-315-01390-8

1-136-43593-X

9781315013909

OCLC:

1477837137