Towards an anthropological psychiatry.
The situation of present day psychiatry is described as being dominated by an empiricist perspective. The limitations of this perspective are analyzed and a rough sketch of the hermeneutical approach in psychiatry is offered. It is argued that a fully developed hermeneutical psychiatry implies a reference towards anthropological themes. Three of them, time, historicity and corporality, are investigated.
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State University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
D000883:Anthropology; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011570:Psychiatry