Lost in Dialogue

Giovanni Stanghellini, MD and Dr. Phil. honoris causa, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, is professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at "G. d'Annunzio" University (Chieti, Italy) and Profesor Adjuncto "D. Portales" University (Santiago, Chile). He chairs the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Psychiatry and the Humanities, and the Association of European Psychiatrists (EPA) Section on Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is also founding chair of the Scuola di Psicoterapia e Fenomenologia Clinica (Florence). Among his books, all published by Oxford University Press: Nature and Narrative (co-edited with KWM Fulford, K. Morris and JZ Sadler, OUP 2003), Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies. The Psychopathology of Common Sense (OUP 2004), Emotions and Personhood (with R. Rosfort, OUP 2013), One Hundred Years of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology (co-edited with T. Fuchs, OUP 2013) and the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

• PART ONE: ANTHROPOLOGY: WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING?; PART TWO: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: WHAT IS MENTAL DISORDER?; PART THREE: THERAPY: WHAT IS CARE?; EPILOGUE: DIALECTIC METHOD AND DIALOGUE

this book... will be a valuable resource for those who seek to refer to the essential work of integrating psychotherapeutical and phenomenological approaches into scientific investigation