Overview
The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and center. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue of the soul with oneself and with others. Throughout, the book builds on the assumption that to be human means to be in dialogue. It uses dialogue as a unitary concept to address three essential issues for clinical practice: 'What is a human being?', 'What is mental pathology'?, and 'What is care?'. To be human - it is argued - means to be in dialogue with oneself and with other persons. Thus, mental pathology is the interruption of this dialogue - both of the person with the alterity that inhabits them, and with the alterity incarnated in other persons. Therefore, therapy is a dialogue with a method whose aim is to re-enact one's interrupted dialogue with alterity. Lost in Dialogue provides a method to approximate the Other, to understand its experiences, actions, and in general, understand the world in which it lives.
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Author: Giovanni Stanghellini (Professor of Psychopathology and Dynamic Psychology, 'G. d'Annunzio' University, Chieti, Italy; Professor Adjuncto, D. Portales University, Santiago, Chile)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.348kg
ISBN: 9780198792062
ISBN 10: 0198792069
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 17 November 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Stanghellini has written an interesting addition to the International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series. It is heavily weighted to psychodynamic and phenomenological thought, and conceptually has depth and strength. * Robert A. Bischoff, PsyCRITIQUES * this book... will be a valuable resource for those who seek to refer to the essential work of integrating psychotherapeutical and phenomenological approaches into scientific investigation * Ragna Winniewski , Humanities Cologne in Germany and MSCA fellow in the EUmanities programme, Metapsychology Online Reviews *
Stanghellini has written an interesting addition to the International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series. It is heavily weighted to psychodynamic and phenomenological thought, and conceptually has depth and strength. * Robert A. Bischoff, PsyCRITIQUES *
Author Information
Giovanni Stanghellini, MD and Dr. Phil. honoris causa, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, is professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at G. d'Annunzio University (Chieti, Italy) and Profesor Adjuncto D. Portales University (Santiago, Chile). He chairs the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Psychiatry and the Humanities, and the Association of European Psychiatrists (EPA) Section on Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is also founding chair of the Scuola di Psicoterapia e Fenomenologia Clinica (Florence). Among his books, all published by Oxford University Press: Nature and Narrative (co-edited with KWM Fulford, K. Morris and JZ Sadler, OUP 2003), Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies. The Psychopathology of Common Sense (OUP 2004), Emotions and Personhood (with R. Rosfort, OUP 2013), One Hundred Years of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology (co-edited with T. Fuchs, OUP 2013) and the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
