'Above all, Enactive Psychiatry is a thoroughly humanistic book … [It] offers a deeply compassionate investigation of the philosophical foundations for a scientifically informed holistic psychiatry.' Jelle Bruineberg, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
1. The need for a model; 2. Currently available models in psychiatry; 3. Introduction to enactivism; 4. Body and mind – and world; 5. The existential dimension and its role in psychiatry; 6. Enriched enactivism: existential sense-making, values, and socio-cultural worlds; 7. Enactive psychiatry: psychiatric disorders are disorders of sense-making; 8. An enactive approach to causes, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; Index; References.