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
1 - The Need for a Model
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
In her article ‘Why Psychiatry Is the Hardest Specialty’, Dew (2009) sketches the everyday difficulties of psychiatric practice. She writes, ‘Being a psychiatrist means dealing with ambiguity all the time … I go to work and listen to someone describe a vague uneasiness felt for a lifetime. Then after about 45 minutes I’m asked to assign it a name’ (p. 16). Of course, as Dew remarks, assigning a name to something does not make it true.
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- Enactive Psychiatry , pp. 1 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020