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This innovative book offers a multidimensional exploration of the epistemological foundations of psychiatry and its major disorders. By emphasizing the importance of phenomenology in unravelling the intricate interplay between basic categories of human experience and neurobiological processes, it advocates for a shift in both psychiatric research and clinical practice. Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry presents psychiatry as a hybrid discipline that synthesizes subjective mental experiences with objective neuroscientific findings and forms an integrative and interdisciplinary structure that provides a dialectical bridge between understanding, compassion, and explanation.
The first section of the book presents the lived experience of psychosis and argues for a more inclusive approach to mental health issues. The second section examines the ways in which psychiatric knowledge is constructed and the unique challenges posed by combining understanding and explanation of mental disorders. Section three sheds light on how disruptions in bodily experiences, memory processes, and self-perception can contribute to the development and manifestation of psychiatric issues. The following section discusses disorders of mood and anxiety, including the phenomena of depression, obsessions, and depersonalization. The fifth and final section provides an in-depth examination of psychotic disorders. It covers a range of topics, such as timing, intentionality, self-monitoring of action in schizophrenia, and the neurobiology of prodromal psychosis. As a singular work dedicated to revitalizing and advancing cross-fertilization between psychiatry and phenomenology, this groundbreaking book clears the foggy operationalized clusters of mental symptoms that may obscure diagnosis and treatment and argues for systematic integration of patient subjectivity and collaboration in clinical research. It features an authorship of the leading clinicians and thinkers from throughout the world in psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, social sciences, and philosophy. Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry: How Patient Experience Bridges the Clinic with Clinical Neuroscience is a major contribution to the clinical literature and a must-read for psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, and professionals and students from other disciplines concerned with absorbing a deeper understanding of psychiatric disorders.
Contents
1. Introduction: Themes and Perspectives.- Part I. Reflections from Within.- 2. Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia.- 3. Three Stories from Inside Psychosis.- Part II. History and Foundations.- 4. The Epistemology of Psychiatry and of Mental Symptoms: The Cambridge View.- 5. Stage theory and the Kraepelinian straightjacket.- 6. Karl Jaspers' Allgemeine Psychopathologie: The Theory of Abnormal Perceptions and Its Methodological and Conceptual Basis.- 7. Comprehending the Whole Person: On Expanding Jaspers' Notion of Empathy.- 8. Embodied cognition in the clinic.- 9. How are the brain's neural changes related to experience and symptoms? Spatiotemporal Psychopathology.- 10. Synchronization and Functional Connectivity Dynamics across TC-CC-CT Networks: Implications for Clinical Symptoms and Consciousness.- 11. Cortical neurodynamics, schizophrenia, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.- 12. Interpersonal Neurobiology, the Mind, and Health in its Flourishing and Compromised States.- Part III. Disorders of the Body, Memory and Self Awareness.- 13. Interoception and Psychopathology.- 14. Anosognosia for Motor Impairments as a Delusion: Anomalies of Experience and Belief Evaluation.- 15. Phenomenology of the Body in Cotard's Syndrome.- 16. The Self in Disorders of Consciousness.- 17. Psychological Disorders and Autobiographical Memories: Examining Memory Specificity, Affective Content, and Meaning-Making.- 18. Self in dementia.- 19. What is it like to be Confabulating?.- Part IV. Disorders of Mood and Anxiety.- 20. Distinguishing Between Affective Instability, Bipolar Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in an Age of Neuroscience.- 21. Evaluative and Habitual Behavior in Depression.- 22. Phenomenological and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Anxiety Disorders.- 23. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Certainty.- 24. Depersonalization Disorder, Emotional Regulation and Existential Feelings.- Part V. Psychotic Disorders.- 25. Neurobiologically Informed Phenomenology of the Schizophrenia Spectrum.- 26. Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry: Linking Timing Disorders and Clinical Symptoms in Schizophrenia.- 27. Bridging the Phenomenology of Prodromal Psychosis with its Underlying Neurobiological Mechanisms.- 28. Alien Intentionality in Schizophrenia.- 29. Monitoring of Action in Schizophrenia.-
