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29The use of the husserlian reduction as a method of investigation in psychiatryJournal of Consciousness Studies 6 (2-3): 155-171. 1999.Husserlian reduction is a rigorous method for describing the foundations of psychiatric experience. With Jaspers we consider three main principles inspired by phenomenological reduction: direct givenness, absence of presuppositions, re-presentation. But with Binswanger alone we refer to eidetic and transcendental reduction: to establish a critical epistemology; to directly investigate the constitutive processes of mental phenomena and their disturbances, freed from their nosological background; …Read more
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70Phenomenological Psychiatry Needs a Big TentPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 18 (1): 31-32. 2011.This article by Louis Sass, Josef Parnas, and Dan Zahavi takes us into the midst of a debate over recent developments in phenomenological psychiatry. In "Phenomenological Psychopathology and Schizophrenia: Contemporary Approaches and Misunderstandings" (Sass et al. 2011), Sass et al. are responding to criticisms of their position lodged by Aaron L. Mishara in "Missing Links in Phenomenological Clinical Neuroscience: Why We Are Still Not There Yet" (Mishara 2007). In their reply, Sass et al. offe…Read more
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49Comments on Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed’s “a critical perspective on second-order empathy in understanding psychopathology: phenomenology and ethics”Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 36 (2): 117-120. 2015.Understanding the mental life of persons with psychosis/schizophrenia has been the crucial challenge of psychiatry since its origins, both for scientific models as well as for every therapeutic encounter between persons with and without psychosis/schizophrenia. Nonetheless, a preliminary understanding is always the first step of phenomenological as well as other qualitative research methods addressing persons with psychotic experiences in their life-world. In contrast to Rashed's assertions, in …Read more
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Phenomenological and hermeneutic models. Understanding and interpretation in psychiatryIn Jennifer Radden (ed.), The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion, Oxford University Press. pp. 351--363. 2004.
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Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic ClassificationBioethics 10 (2): 158-160. 1996.
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77Richard Zaner’s Phenomenology of the Clinical EncounterTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 26 (1): 73-87. 2004.The clinical ethics propounded by Richard Zaner is unique. Partly because of his phenomenological orientation and partly because of his own daily practice as a clinical ethicist in a large university hospital, Zaner focuses on the particular concrete situations in which patients and their families confront illness and injury and struggle toward workable ways for dealing with them. He locates ethical reality in the clinical encounter. This encounter encompasses not only patient and physician but …Read more
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14Commentary on" Neurosis and the Historic Quest for Security"Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 5 (4): 329-331. 1998.
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Husserlian Comments on Blankenburg's "Psychopathology of Common Sense&Quot"Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology 8 (4). 2001.
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15Repetition and Ethics in Late FoucaultTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1999 (117): 113-132. 1999.Normalization and Totalization By the early 1980s, after more than two decades of producing provocative studies on topics ranging from madness to biopower, Michel Foucault came to the conclusion that modernity is marked by an increasingly efficient integration of normalized individuals into totalizing networks. “Never, I think, in the history of human societies—even in the old Chinese society—has there been such a tricky combination in the same political structures of individualization technique…Read more
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Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic ClassificationHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 18 (2): 241. 1996.
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Critical reproblemization-Foucault and the task of modern philosophyRadical Philosophy 91 19-29. 1998.
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Texas A&M UniversityRegular Faculty
College Station, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
Continental Philosophy |