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Introduction
No full textIn recent years there has been a growing interest in phenomenology from the mental health sciences, especially from psychology and psychiatry. The legacy of its classic texts, combined with more recent intersections with other fields of knowledge (such as cognitive sciences and enactivism) has produced a rich literature on how to apply phenomenology in clinical practice. It is exactly the question of how to deploy the phenomenological method in an interdisciplinary field that this volume aims to explore. One of its main goals is to facilitate a dialogue between philosophers and mental health professionals, one which is central to the way we understand mental health and treat those who suffer from mental health conditions
Disposition: the “pathic” dimension of existence and its relevance in affective disorders and schizophrenia
No full text“The nocturnal point of the contraction” : Hegel and melancholia
No full textAs a fundamental feature of our existence, melancholy is an inescapable
characteristic of our ontological constitution. However, there is a distance between the clinical condition of melancholia and the human feeling, the capacity to feel sorrow and nostalgia. In this sense, melancholy and melancholia are similar but different. During the 19th century only few among philosophers had tried to describe melancholy in terms of disorder, using philosophical tools rather than clinical definitions, drifting the accent from melancholy to melancholia. Hegel was one of them, one that had seen inside the depth of human being in order to understand and describe what is the “the nocturnal point of the contraction:” melancholia, in terms of clinical condition. The philosophical exploration of madness and its parameters is essentially an ontological project: this is how Hegel addressed “the Concept of derangement in general” and melancholia in particular, anticipating most of Freud’s consideration of the topic
The Fugue of Being: Heidegger’s critique of the Judaic-Christian tradition in the context of the Black Notebooks (1931-1948)
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From words to worlds. How metaphors and language shape mental health
No full textThrough this contribution I aim to show how language and metaphors shape our mental health, and how overcoming a diagnosis-centred approach in favour of a person-centred approach one may be of great help for the healing journey and in the therapeutic context. Starting from a critical reflection on the theoretical principles at the core of current use of psychiatric language, I propose a richer and more complex use of linguistic patterns through a broader consideration of mental phenomena. To reach these goals, this work is divided into three sections: in the first I scrutinise the task of psychiatry, in the second section I explore psychiatric classifications and their language, and in the third part I attempt to elucidate why and how a hermeneutic phenomenologically informed approach to mental health can be beneficial for the diagnosis of mental health issues. This contribution aims to serve as a critical basis for the dialogue among clinicians and philosophers; for mental health professionals, I hope to bring into discussion the use of language in the diagnostic process, the recourse to a third-person approach to describe diseases, and the use of psychopathological vocabulary. For philosophers, to explore the notion of plurality, an element that has only tangentially been investigated by philosophy throughout its history, but which is central to the understanding of every form of life, including those who are considered pathological.</p
«…this phenomenon, which is none too happily designated as ‘empathy’». Martin Heidegger’s critique of empathy
Full text linkF. Brencio (2022), «…this phenomenon, which is none too happily designated as ‘empathy’». Martin Heidegger’s critique of empathy, in “Bollettino Filosofico”, 37, 243-251, ISSN: 1593 – 7178, E-ISSN 2035 - 2670
Embodied Attention. A phenomenological hypothesis
No full textF. Brencio (2023), Embodied Attention. A phenomenological hypothesis, in D. Stoyanov (Ed.), Contemporary Neuropsychiatry: Implications from Cognitive Neuroscience, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 26-42
Foundation and poetry : Heidegger as a reader of Hölderlin
No full textAround 1930, Martin Heidegger approached Hölderlin's poetry, welcoming his solicitations and hints in ordcr to redeem the experience of the usage of language after the linguistic interruption of Being and Time that showed
him the poverty of metaphysical language. Linguistic poverty is closely linked to metaphysical poverty and to the historical and destiny-related impossibility to grasp Being From the 1930s onwards, the issue concerning the sense of Being becomes for Heidegger an issue concerning the sense of language. Heidegger appears to be "employing" Hölderlin, subordinating his philosophical intuitions to the gears of ontology. Thus, in Heidegger's meditations, Hölderlin's merit is outlined as the intuition of the outcome of Western metaphysics in terms of the extreme oblivion of being and the rambling of thinking, foreseeing the end of an era and introducing the dawn of a sccond beginning: the one of poetizing thinking
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