Psiquiatría AntropológicaMiembro Honorario Extranjerode la Academia de Medicina de Chile
I thank Dr. James Phillips for his invitation to participate in the discussion of Dr. Peter Zacher’s book A Metaphysics of Psychopathology.It is not necessary to insist on the present importance of the thematic field approached by Zacher in his … Continuar
The concept of “expropriation” is essential for categorizing any life process or structure as pathological. In fact, it is the experience of estranging of what is one’s own that constitutes the experience of illness.What is ill appears as something that … Continuar
The naturalist conception of “vulnerability” comes from the susceptibility of the organism to be injured (vulnus), by un external agent. The transformation of the concepts of causation and of the genesis of structures of reality is taking place gradually and … Continuar
The criticism of idealism and its transcendental ego transformed previous philosophy of subjectivity into philosophy of experience. This new philosophy is not a substancialistic view of ontology, but a communicational one, which sees actual structures as wholes emerging from relational … Continuar
Hermeneutics has the value of going beyond the substantialism of consciousness and its trascendental a priori ego – which has representations in it – by showing human behaviour as a communication having sense between a person and the world. The … Continuar
Phenomenology, created by Husserl in the late nineteenth century, represented an intellectual revolution, particularly in continental Europe. The novelty of this way of thinking originated the possibility of overcoming substantialism, but also to fall in some aporias. First in Husserl … Continuar
Jaspers’ “General Psychopathology” constituted the creation of an authentic psychopathology at the forefront of medical semiology.From theoretical point of view, Jaspers knew how to grasp the essentials of the great revolution that was being initiated in the scientific and philosophical … Continuar
The adolescent girls with anorexia have not the addiction to slimness, but the necessity of getting thinner and thinner all the time, of breaking out of their “voluminous” bodies owing to the immediate presence of threat. Not being possible haven’t … Continuar