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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach - Rowman & Littlefield

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Contexts of Suffering offers a deep examination of psychopathology through the lens of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology. This work challenges the standard assumptions found in contemporary psychiatry by placing mental illness within its proper existential and experiential context. Instead of viewing symptoms solely through a biomedical lens, this book examines how mental illness affects the meaning-structures that define human subjectivity. By looking at mental illness from a first-person perspective, the text provides a hermeneutic analysis that considers how our historical situation shapes our experience of suffering. It provides a necessary critique of modern psychiatric models, moving toward a more profound understanding of how existence and mental health are connected. This volume is an essential resource for those studying the intersection of philosophy and psychology, offering new ways to understand the disruption of human meaning.

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Challenges the biomedical model by applying Heideggerian phenomenology to the study of contemporary psychiatry and mental illness.

Examines mental illness from a first-person perspective to understand how it modifies the meaning-structures of human subjectivity.

Provides a hermeneutic analysis that investigates how an individual's historical situation impacts their experience of suffering.

Explores the existential and experiential qualities of mental illness to move beyond standard clinical assumptions.

Part of the New Heidegger Research series, offering scholarly insights into the relationship between human existence and psychopathology.

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Brand: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1786611880
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy > History & Schools of Thought > Western
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 August 2019
Listed Since: 08 May 2019

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