Psychiatry as a Human Science

Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives

von Antoine Mooij

290 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Psychiatry or psychopathology finds itself in a state of imbalance. The reason: the impossibility to unite biological and psychological factors. Effectively, this leads to the psychic reality being largely ignored. And yet psychiatry as a human science will have to acknowledge the psychic reality: the human capacity to symbolise reality. This book demonstrates that phenomenology, hermeneutics and Lacanian psychoanalysis support this view, whilst also drawing on Cassirer's theory of symbolization. In the domain of psychopathology, this convergence and the conceptual space it brings offer an opportunity to create cross-fertilisation, enlarging the Lacanian clinical perspective. It will result in a philosophical conception of man as animal symbolicum, an animal fallen prey to language. In sum, the book renders a contribution to Lacanian psychopathology, to the philosophy of psychiatry and to philosophical anthropology. It is of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, psychoanalysts and philosophers alike.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie
• ISBN: 9789042035966
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2012
• Größe: 236 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Brill