phenomenology – A New Vision for Mental Health

Toward a Change of Paradigm in Psychosis: A Contextual Phenomenological Approach

Author: Editorial 1st May 2023 0 Comments

This abstract is of a chapter in Psychological Interventions for Psychosis that has been co-authored by Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes: “This chapter sets out the increasing evidence that makes it clear that the understanding of psychosis from the…
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collaborative practice

biomedical model, contextual model, holism, Marino Pérez-Álvarez, Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes, phenomenology, psychiatry, psychosis, psychotherapy

Delusion and Reason: An Argument for a Phenomenological Model for Understanding Schizophrenic Delusion

Author: Editorial 20th January 2023 0 Comments

This article by Gert Jensen, published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, includes a very illuminating first-hand account of the subjective, lived experience of what is called ‘schizophrenia’. The article begins: “The nature of some schizophrenic delusions seems distinct from delusions present in…
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collaborative practice

Bleuler, delusions, Gert Jensen, phenomenology, psychiatry, psychosis, rationality, schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Bulletin, solipsism, two-factor theories of delusion

Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Author: Editorial 23rd November 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Edward S. Casey and presents a different view of emotions. As such it has relevance to our understanding of the emotional and psychological distress that is usually labelled ‘mental’ ill-health. The publishers say: “In Turning Emotion Inside Out,…
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emotion-focused care

books, Edward Casey, emotional knowing, emotions, existentialism, phenomenology, subjectivity

Medicine’s perception of reality – a split picture: critical reflections on apparent anomalies within the biomedical theory of science

Author: Editorial 5th November 2020 0 Comments

This article has been published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Although it concerns medical philosophy and practice in general, much of its content is relevant to mental healthcare – especially given the biomedical model upon which the current…
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a coherent system

biomedical model, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Lived Body, phenomenology, Practice Education/Clinical Evaluation, Public health systems and services research

The Phenomenology of Depression: What It’s Like When the ‘Dark Fog’ Descends

Author: Editorial 22nd May 2019 0 Comments

Sam Woolfe (freelance writer and blogger) has written : “Phenomenology is a philosophical movement, founded by Edmund Husserl (1859 – 1938), which concerns itself with direct experiences. Phenomenologists study the nature of consciousness as it is experienced subjectively in the first person….
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emotion-focused care

Clients & Patients, depression, Edmund Husserl, empathy, Karl Jaspers, Ludwig Binswanger, Nassir Ghaemi, phenomenology, psychiatry, Sam Woolfe