Book contents
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- 7 Enactive Psychiatry
- 8 An Enactive Approach to Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
- References
- Index
5 - The Existential Dimension and Its Role in Psychiatry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2020
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- 7 Enactive Psychiatry
- 8 An Enactive Approach to Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
- References
- Index
Summary
So far we have looked at the enactive account of the relation between body and mind and saw that following the life–mind continuity thesis we need to understand both physiological and experiential processes as part of a larger system of living beings interacting with their worlds. This relational approach undercuts the dualist confusions that stem from an inner/outer mind and world. Although the enactive account is a promising basis for an integrative framework of psychiatric disorders, it does not yet suffice.
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- Enactive Psychiatry , pp. 124 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020