Psychotherapy and Chinese Medicine both leave the European Mindset serves as the guiding idea for this volume. It presents papers by leading experts in Chinese Medicine of different countries. They clarify Shen and its related concepts, elucidate the psychotherapy of Chinese Medicine, discuss Chinese medical treatments for mental diseases, argue the rationality of acupuncture, interpret Chinese Medicine, and discuss how to modernize Chinese Medicine in the right way. The range of research presented in this volume includes interdisciplinary perspectives of the philosophy of science, the...

Chinese medicine is a culturally dependent art of healing deeply rooted in the culture and philosophy of the country it originated from: China. This book has three independent but progressive parts, each bearing the title of one of the three courses taught by the author as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vienna University, in the 2010-2011 winter semester, namely: Overview of Chinese Culture through Chinese Characters, Fundamental Concepts of Classical Chinese Philosophy and The Importance of Metaphors in Chinese Medicine, which are in the fields of...

Dieser Band vereint philosophische und einzelwissenschaftliche Studien zum Konstruktiven Realismus. In Vergleichen mit den Wissenschaftstheorien von Glasersfeld und Bueno werden die wissenschaftstheoretischen Grundthesen des Konstruktiven Realismus erortert und abgegrenzt. Die konstruktiv-realistische Methode der Verfremdung erfahrt eine eingehende Analyse in der Gegenuberstellung zur Verfremdung bei Brecht. Drei Texte zeigen die fruchtbare Anwendung der Methode der Verfremdung in der Evolutionsbiologie, der Padagogik und der Psychotherapie. Daruber hinaus wird die Bedeutsamkeit des...

From the beginning, Constructive Realism has been a culturally orientated philosophy of science by the introduction of the concept of lifeworld. This book brings together contributions from the field of philosophy, Chinese medicine and the science of psychotherapy. The authors discuss the relation of Constructive Realism and culture or rather the concept of science under the aspect of cultural dependency. Since the beginning of the new century the manifold research on Chinese Medicine offered concrete examples for a cultural dependency of science. Thereby, the book shows the rare or even...