Kevin Aho

Contexts of Suffering

A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores new phenomenological research on the structural disruptions of spatiality, temporality, and understanding in the context of anxiety and depressive disorders. It offers critiques of mainstream psychopathology, taking a transdisciplinary approach to the relationship between mental illness and self-constitution.

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Produktdetails

• New Heidegger Research
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781786611888
• ISBN-10: 1786611880
• Artikelnr.: 56758617

Autorenporträt

Kevin Aho is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the author of Existentialism: An Introduction (Polity, 2014), Heidegger's Neglect of the Body (SUNY Press, 2009), and co-author of Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Illness, and Disease (Lexington Books, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Phenomenology and the Limits of Contemporary Psychopathology
1. Medicalizing Mental Illness
2. Heidegger and the Structures of Subjectivity
Part II: Structural Breakdowns: Space, Time, and Understanding
3. Disturbances of Spatiality
4. Disturbances of Temporality
5. The Death of Meaning
Part III: Hermeneutic Psychiatry: Situating Mental Illness
6. What is Hermeneutic Psychiatry?
7. Situating Social Anxiety
8. Situating Neurasthenia
9. Situating Rage
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index