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The Clinician in the Psychiatric Diagnostic Process
The vast majority of mental health clinicians and researchers rely on diagnostic systems based on operational criteria. However, in their everyday practice, many clinicians also pay attention to their own feelings or intuitions about the patient. For an even greater number of clinicians, this process may occur inadvertently. Scholars from various fields are increasingly stressing the importance of complementing the emphasis on operational criteria with thoughtful attention to the subjective and intersubjective elements involved in a thorough psychopathological evaluation. This book aims at capturing the essence, implications and full potential of the clinician’s subjective experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. It gathers contributions from several different disciplines, such as phenomenology, neuroscience, the cognitive sciences, and psychoanalysis. It also presents the development, validation, and clinical application of a psychometric instrument that reliably investigates the clinician’s feelings, thoughts, and perceptions related to the clinical encounter.
The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology
The field of phenomenological psychopathology (PP) is concerned with exploring and describing the individual experience of those suffering from mental disorders. The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology is the first ever comprehensive review of the field.
The Absolute Shadow
This book explores Jung’s central concept of shadow from a particular configuration that the author calls "Absolute Shadow," placing it in relation to the idea of destiny as catastrophic. Clinically based and supported by a vast number of therapy cases, the book exemplifies how the Absolute Shadow is a result of the projection of the most fragile and destructive parts of one’s psyche. In some cases, it may cause loss of identity and, through the mechanisms of false/double personality, is bound to result in psychosis. Other aspects of the Shadow, like the intergenerational shadow, are also examined in depth. The Absolute Shadow is the well-informed result of Caramazza’s fifty years of study and clinical experience. It is important reading for Jungian and depth psychologists, as well as for psychoanalytic students, trainees, and clinicians of all schools of thought.
Tossicodipendenza e doppia diagnosi: la relazione d'aiuto in comunità
Il volume nasce dall'esperienza degli autori presso la Comunità "Fermata d'Autobus", dove risiedono tossicodipendenti che presentano anche disturbi di natura psichiatrica: i cosiddetti pazienti con doppia diagnosi. Nonostante di solito venga sottolineata la necessità di un approccio eclettico ai problemi di questi pazienti, data la loro multicausalità, il più delle volte nella realtà clinica predomina la scelta di trattamenti in funzione di un modello teorico interpretativo unico, che assume per gli operatori significato ideologico. Gli autori hanno cercato di superare le difficoltà che ne derivano, proponendo come modello operativo "l'integrazione funzionale" di Gian Carlo Zapparoli, ...
La nevrosi e le sue problematiche
Attraverso una raccolta di casi clinici, presentati con un linguaggio semplice e accessibile, il libro espone la concezione più matura dell’Autore che fu un Maestro nel conseguire la comprensione di ogni caso e nel trasmetterla ai pazienti con semplicità ed efficacia, da una prospettiva che oggi sidirebbe idiografica e fenomenologica. Inoltre, fa comprendere come l’autonomia e l’originalità del pensiero di Adler sia stata anteriore all’incontro con Freud, con cui ebbe una temporanea collaborazione nella prima parte della sua vita (1902-1911), quando poteva sembrare che i due uomini fossero accumunati da una concezione soggettivistica dell’essere umano. Questa tesi,proposta da Ansbacher, è stata espressa nella nota frase ‘Adler fu un freudiano quando Freud era un adleriano’. Infine, come osserva Sodini, il volume rafforza la distinzione fatta dall’Autore tra l’espressione ‘interesse sociale’ e ‘sentimento comunitario’ a lungo considerati erroneamente sinonimi, e al tempo stesso costituisce un ottimo punto di partenza per lo studio e la comprensione della psicologia individuale di Alfred Adler.
Psychopathology and Atmospheres
Feeling sad during a funeral and being relaxed while having dinner with friends are atmospheric feelings. However, the notion of “atmosphere”, meaning not only a subjective mood, but a sensorial and affective quality that is widespread in space and determines the way one experiences it, has intensified only recently in scientific debate. The discussion today covers a wide range of theoretical and applied issues, involving all disciplines, paying attention more to qualitative aspects of reality than to objective ones. These disciplines include the psy- approaches, whose focus on an affective experience that is emerging neither inside nor outside the person can contribute to the development of a new paradigm in psychopathology and in clinical work: a field-based clinical practice. This collection of essays is the first book specifically addressing the link between atmospheres and psychopathology. It challenges a reductionist and largely unsatisfactory approach based on a technical, pharmaceutical, symptomatic, individualistic perspective, and thus promotes the exchange of ideas between psy- disciplines, humanistic approaches and new trends in sciences.
The Existential Structure of Substance Misuse
This book contributes to one of the most challenging areas of mental health: substance misuse. Its focus is on the psychopathological experiences associated with it: both the consequences of substance misuse and the existential vulnerabilities that lead to it, even if such a clear-cut distinction is rarely possible. The work brings an innovative perspective to the issue, as it draws on two scientific fields whose association has not yet been fully explored: phenomenological psychopathology and substance misuse studies. The association of these two perspectives could build a greater understanding of this important topic and be of practical help to a wide array of professionals in their clinical practice. The structure of the book is inspired by this overall perspective. Its division into three parts is designed to introduce the reader, in a stepwise manner, to the complexities of the theme, based on the latest advances in the specific literature. The broad objective of this work is therefore to offer a useful instrument for mental health clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, undergraduate students of these disciplines, and all substance abuse workers.
Edith Stein and Edmund Husserl
This book offers a reconsideration and re-evaluation of the philosophical exchange between Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein by addressing their unique and differing positions in light of the thinkers’ shared phenomenological roots. Angela Ales Bello highlights the depth and breadth of the philosophers’ thinking on questions related to intersubjectivity, ethics, religion, ontology, gender, anthropology, method, personhood, and psychology.
Emotions and Personhood
Emotions and personhood are important notions within the field of mental health care. How they are related is less evident. This book provides a framework for understanding the important and complex relationship between our emotional wellbeing and our sense of self, drawing on psychopathology, philosophy, and phenomenology.
