Psychopathology: An Empathic Representational Approach retraces the foundations of classical phenomenological psychopathology and integrates them with modern ideas drawn from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, computational science, and evolutionary biology to synthesize a comprehensive framework and provide fresh insights. This book explores how the scientific concepts of 'information and representation' can be used to understand subjective mental phenomena and integrate them in empathic clinical dialogues during interactions with patients. It explores key issues in clinical psychopathology coherently and systematically, illustrates advanced topics in an accessible manner using clinical case examples, metaphors and clarifying diagrams, and directly links advanced conceptual frameworks with pragmatic skills in the clinical dialogue process. This volume is aimed at a broad audience of mental health professionals, researchers, and students in psychiatry, psychology, and social work. Its interdisciplinary treatment of the subject will also interest biologists, anthropologists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers.
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An Empathic Representational Approach; An Integration of Phenomenology and Cognitive Neuroscience
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An Empathic Representational Approach; An Integration of Phenomenology and Cognitive Neuroscience
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Psychiatry & Mental HealthIndex
PsychologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Synposis
- Author Biography
- Endorsements
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Detailed Analyses of Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword by German E. Berrios
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Problem of Psychopathological Knowledge
- 2. Information in the Brain and Subjective Experiences
- 3. The Structure of Subjective Experience
- 4. Unfolding Phenomenological Processes in the Human Person
- 5. Empathic Access to Other People
- 6. Mental Representations as Containers for Information in Subjective Experiences
- 7. Representation Failure and Psychopathology
- 8. Towards a New Representational Framework in Psychopathology
- 9. Psychopathological Evaluation: The Clinical Dialogue
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
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