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Alternative philosophical conceptualizations of psychopathology

Hubert L Dreyfus

pp. 41-50

Abstract

Alternative conceptualizations, which often turn into acrimonious oppositions, already abound in psychotherapy. The humanists condemn the behaviorists; the existentialists defend the patient as subject against what they take to be Freudian objectification; family therapists define themselves in opposition to individual therapists. Nevertheless, I wish to propose an alternative to these alternatives, since I am convinced that these oppositions pale in the light of two fundamentally opposed but complementary views of the mind. I will call these alternative conceptions of the mind and of psychopathology, epistemological and ontological, and will contrast Freud's fundamentally epistemiological approach with Merleau-Ponty's ontological account.

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Durfee Harold, Rodier David F T (1989) Phenomenology and beyond: the self and its language. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 41-50

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1055-3_4

Full citation:

Dreyfus Hubert L (1989) „Alternative philosophical conceptualizations of psychopathology“, In: H. Durfee & D.F.T. Rodier (eds.), Phenomenology and beyond, Dordrecht, Springer, 41–50.