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Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies

The Psychopathology of Common Sense

By: Giovanni Stanghellini

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Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies

The Psychopathology of Common Sense

By: Giovanni Stanghellini

How can we better understand and treat those suffering from schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses? This important new book takes us into the world of those suffering from such disorders. Using self-descriptions, its emphasis is not on how mental health professional's view sufferers, but on how the patients themselves experience their disorder. Central to the book is the idea that schizophrenic persons live like disembodies spirits or deanimated bodies. As disembodies spirits, they feel like abstract entities that contemplate their own existence and the world from outside. As deanimated bodies, schizophrenic people feel deprived of the possibility of living personal experiences - perceptions, thoughts, emotions - as their own. A new volume in the International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series, this book will be of great interest to all those working with sufferers from such disorders - helping them to better understand their mental lives and providing important insights into how best to treat them.

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Oxford University Press

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0198520891

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9780198520894

Lost in Dialogue

Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care

By: Giovanni Stanghellini

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Lost in Dialogue

Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care

By: Giovanni Stanghellini

In this book Stanghellini argues that to be human means to be in dialogue with alterity, that mental pathology is the outcome of a crisis of one's dialogue with alterity, and that care is a method wherein dialogues take place whose aim is to re-enact interrupted dialogue with alterity within oneself and with the external world.

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229

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Oxford University Press

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0198792069

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9780198792062

Emotions and Personhood

Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability

By: Giovanni Stanghellini,René Rosfort

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Emotions and Personhood

Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability

By: Giovanni Stanghellini,René Rosfort

How does a person experience emotions? What is the relationship between the experiential and biological dimensions of emotions? How do emotions figure in a person's relation to the world and to other people? How do emotions feature in human vulnerability to mental illness? Do they play a significant role in the fragile balance between mental health and illness? If emotions are in fact significant, how are they relevant for treatment? Emotions and personhood are important notions within the field of mental health care. What they are, and how they are related though, is less evident. This book provides a framework for understanding this relationship. The authors argue for an account of emotions and personhood that attempts to understand human emotions from the combined approach of philosophy and psychopathology, taking its models particularly from hermeneutical phenomenology and from dialectical psychopathology. Within the book, the authors develop a basic set of concepts for understanding what emotional experience means for a human person, with the assumption that human emotional experience is fragile - a fact which entails vulnerability to mental disturbance. Drawing on research from psychiatry, psychopathology, philosophy, and neuroscience, the book will be valuable for both students and researchers in these disciplines, and more broadly, within the field of mental health.

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OUP Oxford

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0191636215

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9780191636219

Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies

The Psychopathology of Common Sense

By: Giovanni Stanghellini

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The Psychopathology of Common Sense

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The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health

A Values-Based and Person-Centered Approach

By: Giovanni Stanghellini,Milena Mancini

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The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health

A Values-Based and Person-Centered Approach

By: Giovanni Stanghellini,Milena Mancini

Emotions and values are considered the keys to understanding peoples' experiences and actions within the world they inhabit. The traditional symptom-led clinical interview is frequently criticised for ignoring the narrative of a patient's experience in favour of ticking-off symptoms that can be reduced or controlled. In response, this important new book seeks to understand a patient's sufferings through their individual experiences and values. The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health is about the art of asking questions. This comprehensive book will equip psychologists, psychiatrists and clinicians with the tools to begin unlocking the emotions and experiences of their patients. The method of the therapeutic interview is explained in a step-by-step way, allowing the reader to understand the clinical interview as a means of beginning a shared understanding between patient and clinician. This book is an essential read for all psychologists, psychiatrists, general clinicians, and medical trainees.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108326390

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Literature and the Great War

The Fronts of Writing

By: Giovanni Capecchi

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Literature and the Great War

The Fronts of Writing

By: Giovanni Capecchi

Among the numerous volumes dedicated to the Great War, this book stands out for its ability to trace, in a thorough but concise manner, an overall picture of the literature born from the conflict. After its introductory pages concerning the forms, times and places of war writing, the book focuses on the story of the months of the eve of the war, on the journey to the front and the discovery of the true face of war, on the stories of the trenches, on the accounts of the imprisonment, and on the return home accompanied by disappointment and disorientation. The book, focused on Italy, but rich in references to European literature, is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, illusions and massacres. It is the story of an event that divided the collective history of Europe and individual lives. It is the account, passionate and exciting, of the literary writings born from trauma.

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