Psychological suffering is inherent to human experience. Understanding it, and attending to the person afflicted, are the main goals of clinical psychology and psychiatry. However, often patients bring to the attention of the clinician questions which bear directly on existential, and therefore philosophical, issues and perspectives. In this course we will explore how a philosophical approach could enrich mental health-related disciplines and vice versa. Through collective discussions and argumentation exercises, we will show the utility of philosophical practices for understanding phenomena which have traditionally been deemed as pathological. In order to do so, questions such as the following will be addressed: “Does one have schizophrenia, as it were, an entity set apart from their personhood? Or are they schizophrenics, as if psychosis had grown out of a particular mode of being?”; “Who is the expert, when it comes to diagnostic processes and clinical decision-making? Is it the patient or, perhaps, the clinician?”; “Is it possible to accurately demarcate states of ‘mental health’ from those of ‘mental illness’? And what do we mean by pathological anyway?”. A philosophy committed to navigating our everyday world must account for such realities.
This course is a Projekttutorium which means it is offered by students.
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2024 gefunden:
