Phenomenological psychopathology and care
from person-centered dialectical psychopathology to the phd method for psychotherapy
pp. 361-378
in: Giovanni Stanghellini, Massimiliano Aragona (eds), An experiential approach to psychopathology, Berlin, Springer, 2016Abstract
This chapter builds on and extends the assumption that to be human is to be in dialogue and that mental pathology is the outcome of a crisis of one's dialogue with alterity. It also argues that care is a kind of dialogue wherein dialogue takes place whose aim is to re-enance the interrupted dialogue with oneself and the external world. Phenomenological psychopathogy is quitent essential to re-enanhance this dialogue since it provides the method, i.e., phenomenological unfolding, clinical hermeneutics and genetic understanding.