Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness

ISBN-13: 9780367151713 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 264 str.

Sarah Kamens

Opis

This volume presents an international research study which reconceptualizes diagnoses of schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the lived experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from the symptoms and experiences included in conventional diagnostic systems.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction  1. Psychiatric Diagnosis in History  2. The Emergence of the "Schizophrenia" Diagnosis: Conventional, Cross-Cultural, and Alternative Approaches  3. Phenomenological Accounts  4. A Multi-Site, International Project  5. Urhomelessness as a Way of Being-in-the-World  6. Wandering in Exile: The Nomadic Moment  7. Imaginal and Ideal Home: The Settled Moment  8. Impossibility of Shelter: The Destitute Moment  9. A Continuum of Experience: Urhomelessness and Recovery  10. Cultural Diversity and Sameness  11. Diagnostic Heterogeneities  12. Phenomenlogical and Interdisciplinary Literatures  13. Future Directions  14. Implications for Cultural and Structural Worlds

O autorze

Sarah Kamens is a clinical psychologist and interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the phenomenology of emotional distress, including the distress that results from structural disparities and psychosocial mar-ginalization. Alongside her colleagues in the Society for Humanistic Society, Dr. Kamens explores possibilities for diagnostic alternatives in the mental health professions.