Full Description
This volume explores the interrelations between emotions, embodiment, and vulnerability through a phenomenological perspective. Scholars of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry investigate how the fragilities of embodied existence shape emotions, how these vulnerabilities become visible in psychopathological conditions, and how they figure in therapeutic contexts. A central theme is that emotions can be understood as experiences lived through and enacted - not merely endured - showing them as fundamental to human selfhood and agency. Integrating phenomenological analyses with clinical insights, the text illuminates fluid boundaries between ordinary and pathological emotional experience. Across twenty-one chapters contributed by established researchers, this book builds a framework for understanding how emotions reveal and modulate human vulnerability.
Contents
Part I. Emotions and Human Vulnerability: Phenomenological Intertwinings: 1. Experiencing ourselves emotionally Matthew Ratcliffe; 2. Agency in emotion Jan Slaby; 3. Desire: objects, interests, and temporal dimensions Sara Heinämaa; 4. Living without emotions: emotional numbness and emotional detachment Natalie Depraz; 5. The emotions of racist encounters: an analysis of the phenomenological levels of constitution Lanei Rodemeyer; 6. On the phenomenology of hatred Thomas Fuchs; 7. Injustice, aggression, and embitterment Michael Linden; Part II. Vulnerability and Psychopathology: Emotions and their Embodiment: 8. 'This body is not mine': a phenomenological analysis of tardive dyskinesia from long-term antidepressant use Kevin Aho; 9. Affective identity in dementia diseases. Or: feeling home despite dementia Eric Norman Dzwiza-Ohlson; 10. Vulnerability and emotional abilities: the case of Narcissism Philipp Schmidt-Boddy; 11. Temporal embedding of borderline self-experience as a foundation for felt vulnerability Anna Sterna and Marcin Moskalewicz; 12. Bipolar disorder, affective habits, and authenticity Michele Maiese; 13. Phenomenology meets the double empathy problem: embodied empathy, vulnerability, and emotions in autism Christian Tewes; 14. Affect and time: on the worldly origins of schizophrenic vulnerability John Sykes, Francesca Fotia Sykes and Tom Froese; Part III. Overcoming Vulnerabilities in Psychotherapy: Embodied Emotions and Healing: 15. Self-patterns and affective atmospheres in psychiatry Shaun Gallagher; 16. Affective vulnerability and affective suffering. A phenomenology of painful emotions Florian Schmidsberger; 17. Emotions and schizophrenia: their alienating, transformative, and healing potential Borut Škodlar; 18. Digital deathlessness: emotions and AI griefbots in pathological grief Joel Krueger; 19. Accepted vulnerability, trust, and effectiveness of psychotherapy Daniel Vespermann and Gustav Melichar; 20. Absorbing and broadcasting: body movement's role in emotional experiences and the resulting implications for psychotherapy Christine Caldwell; 21. Empathy as the emotional basis of a therapeutic relationship Philippe Cabestan.
