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146Depression and embodiment: phenomenological reflections on motility, affectivity, and transcendenceMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16 (4): 751-759. 2013.This paper integrates personal narratives with the methods of phenomenology in order to draw some general conclusions about ‘what it means’ and ‘what it feels like’ to be depressed. The analysis has three parts. First, it explores the ways in which depression disrupts everyday experiences of spatial orientation and motility. This disruption makes it difficult for the person to move and perform basic functional tasks, resulting in a collapse or contraction of the life-world. Second, it illustrate…Read more
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The bodyIn Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 269. 2013.
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37Heidegger's Neglect of the BodyState University of New York Press. 2009._Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger’s account of the body._
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68Simmel on Acceleration, Boredom, and Extreme AesthesiaJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 37 (4): 447-462. 2007.By focusing on the unique velocity and over-stimulation of metropolitan life, Georg Simmel pioneered an interpretation of cultural boredom that has had a significant impact on contemporary social theory by viewing it through the modern experience of time-pressure and social acceleration. This paper explores Simmel's account of boredom by showing how--in the frenzy of modern life--it has become increasingly difficult to qualitatively distinguish which choices and commitments actually matter to u…Read more
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49The Psychopathology of American Shyness: A Hermeneutic ReadingJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 40 (2): 190-206. 2010.
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75Medicalized Psychiatry and the Talking Cure: A Hermeneutic InterventionHuman Studies 34 (3): 293-308. 2011.The dominance of the medical-model in American psychiatry over the last 30 years has resulted in the subsequent decline of the “talking cure”. In this paper, we identify a number of problems associated with medicalized psychiatry, focusing primarily on how it conceptualizes the self as a de-contextualized set of symptoms. Drawing on the tradition of hermeneutic phenomenology, we argue that medicalized psychiatry invariably overlooks the fact that our identities, and the meanings and values that …Read more
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Health and Illness |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |
Existentialism |
Martin Heidegger |
Phenomenology, Misc |