Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry

Magnus Englander is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Malmö University, Sweden and Faculty Member in the Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology, Saybrook University, USA. He also serves as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology.

• Introduction: Magnus Englander Towards a Phenomenological Social PsychiatryChapter 1: Larry DavidsonTranscendental Intersubjectivity as the Foundation for a Phenomenological Social PsychiatryChapter 2: Mads Gram HenriksenSchizophrenia, Psychosis, and EmpathyChapter 3: Magnus EnglanderEmpathy in a Social PsychiatryChapter 4: Scott D. ChurchillOn the Empathic Mode of Intuition: A Phenomenological Foundation for Social PsychiatryChapter 5: Frederick J. Wertz, Miraj U. Desai, Emily Maynard, Justin R. Misurell, Mary Beth Morrissey, Batya Rotter, Nicoletta C. SkoufalosResearch Methods for Person-Centered Health Science: Fordham Studies of Suffering and TranscendenceChapter 6: Idun Røseth & Rob BongaardtA Phenomenological Understanding of Postpartum Depression and its TreatmentChapter 7: Samuel Thoma & Thomas FuchsA Phenomenology of Sensus Communis: Outline of a Phenomenological Approach to SocialPsychiatryChapter 8: Susi FerrarelloHusserl's Ethics and PsychiatryChapter 9: Marc ApplebaumThe I and the We: Psychological Reflections on Husserl’s EgologyIndex

Contributors include clinicians and scholars from the US and northern Europe; their varied perspectives provide a multifaceted view of the contributions phenomenological approaches can make to psychological research … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.