ENACTIVE PSYCHIATRY

ENACTIVE PSYCHIATRY

Editorial:
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Año de edición:
Materia
Psiquiatría
ISBN:
978-1-108-42606-0
Páginas:
320
N. de edición:
1
Idioma:
Inglés
Disponibilidad:
Disponible en 2-3 semanas

Descuento:

-5%

Antes:

104,00 €

Despues:

98,80 €

1. The need for a model
2. Currently available models in psychiatry
3. Introduction to enactivism
4. Body and mind – and world
5. The existential dimension and its role in psychiatry
6. Enriched enactivism: existential sense-making, values, and socio-cultural worlds
7. Enactive psychiatry: psychiatric disorders are disorders of sense-making
8. An enactive approach to causes, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders
Index
References.

Psychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders. Such factors range from traumatic experiences to dysfunctional neurotransmitters, existential worries, economic deprivation, social exclusion and genetic bad luck. The relevant factors and how they interact can differ not only between diagnoses but also between individuals with the same diagnosis. How should we understand and navigate such complexity? Enactive Psychiatry presents an integrative account of the many phenomena at play in the development and persistence of psychiatric disorders by drawing on insights from enactivism, a theory of embodied cognition. From the enactive perspective on the mind and its relation to both the body and the world, we can achieve a new understanding of the nature of psychiatric disorders and the causality involved in their development and treatment, thereby resolving psychiatry's integration problem.

Features
• Provides a straightforward, holistic view on psychiatric disorders
• Expands and enriches enactivism to include more complex forms of human cognition
• Shows how factors involved in the development and persistence of psychiatric disorders are connected