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Title: Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology (New Heidegger Research)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1786611880
ISBN 13: 9781786611888
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good

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Contexts of Suffering draws on Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology and his analysis of human existence to challenge core assumptions in contemporary psychiatry by contextualizing mental illness and illuminating its existential and experiential qualities. The book explores the limitations of today’s biomedical model and examines mental illness from a first-person perspective to show how it can disrupt and modify the meaning-structures that constitute our subjectivity. It goes on to offer a hermeneutic analysis of mental illness by shedding light on the extent to which our historical situation shapes the way we diagnose, classify, and experience our suffering and provides the discursive framework through which we can interpret and make sense of it. To this end, the book highlights the crucial need for clinicians to regard the sufferer not as a neurochemical entity but as a way of being that is uniquely situated, embodied, and self-interpreting. Contexts of Suffering will be a valuable resource for Heidegger scholars, philosophers of health and illness, medical ethicists, and mental healthcare professionals in general.

About the Authors

Richard Polt is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Cincinnati, USA.

Gregory Fried is Professor of Philosophy at Suffolk University, Boston, USA.

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