Sanneke de HaanCambridge University Press, 3/5/2020EAN 9781108426060, ISBN10: 1108426069Hardcover, 304 pages, 23.4 x 16.3 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishPsychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders. Such factors range from traumatic experiences to dysfunctional neurotransmitters, existential worries, economic deprivation, social exclusion and genetic bad luck. The relevant factors and how they interact can differ not only between diagnoses but also between individuals with the same diagnosis. How should we understand and navigate such complexity? Enactive Psychiatry presents an integrative account of the many phenomena at play in the development and persistence of psychiatric disorders by drawing on insights from enactivism, a theory of embodied cognition. From the enactive perspective on the mind and its relation to both the body and the world, we can achieve a new understanding of the nature of psychiatric disorders and the causality involved in their development and treatment, thereby resolving psychiatry's integration problem.1. The need for a model2. Currently available models in psychiatry3. Introduction to enactivism4. Body and mind – and world5. The existential dimension and its role in psychiatry6. Enriched enactivismexistential sense-making, values, and socio-cultural worlds7. Enactive psychiatrypsychiatric disorders are disorders of sense-making8. An enactive approach to causes, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disordersIndexReferences.
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