Phenomenology of Emotions

Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvHannes Gustav Melichar,Philipp Schmidt-Boddy,Thomas Fuchs,Christian Tewes

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This volume explores the interrelations between emotions, embodiment, and vulnerability through a phenomenological perspective. Scholars of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry investigate how the fragilities of embodied existence shape emotions, how these vulnerabilities become visible in psychopathological conditions, and how they figure in therapeutic contexts. A central theme is that emotions can be understood as experiences lived through and enacted - not merely endured - showing them as fundamental to human selfhood and agency. Integrating phenomenological analyses with clinical insights, the text illuminates fluid boundaries between ordinary and pathological emotional experience. Across twenty-one chapters contributed by established researchers, this book builds a framework for understanding how emotions reveal and modulate human vulnerability.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-13
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor504
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009627245

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Hannes Gustav Melichar is a Research Associate at Heidelberg University Hospital, Principal Investigator of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation project The Nature of Reasonable Abilities, and Co-Leader of the IDEE project at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and German philosophy. Philipp Schmidt-Boddy is a Research Associate at Heidelberg University Hospital and Co-Leader of a project on embodiment and inner speech at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research spans phenomenology, emotion theory, history of philosophy, and philosophy of psychiatry, engaging closely with contemporary psychological approaches. Thomas Fuchs is Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Heidelberg University. His work centers on phenomenological philosophy and psychopathology, embodied and enactive cognitive science, and interactive concepts of social cognition. Clinically, he specializes in the psychopathology and psychotherapy of affective and schizophrenic disorders. Christian Tewes is a Professor of Philosophy at Alanus University Mannheim, where he works in educational contexts with a focus on phenomenology and philosophy of mind. His research includes embodied and enactive cognitive science, free will, introspection, and dementia, and he collaborates on projects combining empirical and philosophical methods.

Part I. Emotions and Human Vulnerability: Phenomenological Intertwinings: 1. Experiencing ourselves emotionally Matthew Ratcliffe; 2. Agency in emotion Jan Slaby; 3. Desire: objects, interests, and temporal dimensions Sara Heinämaa; 4. Living without emotions: emotional numbness and emotional detachment Natalie Depraz; 5. The emotions of racist encounters: an analysis of the phenomenological levels of constitution Lanei Rodemeyer; 6. On the phenomenology of hatred Thomas Fuchs; 7. Injustice, aggression, and embitterment Michael Linden; Part II. Vulnerability and Psychopathology: Emotions and their Embodiment: 8. 'This body is not mine': a phenomenological analysis of tardive dyskinesia from long-term antidepressant use Kevin Aho; 9. Affective identity in dementia diseases. Or: feeling home despite dementia Eric Norman Dzwiza-Ohlson; 10. Vulnerability and emotional abilities: the case of Narcissism Philipp Schmidt-Boddy; 11. Temporal embedding of borderline self-experience as a foundation for felt vulnerability Anna Sterna and Marcin Moskalewicz; 12. Bipolar disorder, affective habits, and authenticity Michele Maiese; 13. Phenomenology meets the double empathy problem: embodied empathy, vulnerability, and emotions in autism Christian Tewes; 14. Affect and time: on the worldly origins of schizophrenic vulnerability John Sykes, Francesca Fotia Sykes and Tom Froese; Part III. Overcoming Vulnerabilities in Psychotherapy: Embodied Emotions and Healing: 15. Self-patterns and affective atmospheres in psychiatry Shaun Gallagher; 16. Affective vulnerability and affective suffering. A phenomenology of painful emotions Florian Schmidsberger; 17. Emotions and schizophrenia: their alienating, transformative, and healing potential Borut Škodlar; 18. Digital deathlessness: emotions and AI griefbots in pathological grief Joel Krueger; 19. Accepted vulnerability, trust, and effectiveness of psychotherapy Daniel Vespermann and Gustav Melichar; 20. Absorbing and broadcasting: body movement's role in emotional experiences and the resulting implications for psychotherapy Christine Caldwell; 21. Empathy as the emotional basis of a therapeutic relationship Philippe Cabestan.