Time and Body

This book advances the development of phenomenological psychopathology and demonstrates its applicability to a spectrum of mental disorders.

This book guides advanced undergraduates, researchers and practitioners through current debates at the interface of psychology, phenomenology, and psychiatry. It demonstrates how psychopathology benefits from phenomenological and embodied approaches, and how they combine to apply to a range of mental disorders.Time and Body promotes the application of phenomenological psychopathology and embodied research to a broad spectrum of mental disorders. In a new and practical way, it integrates the latest research on the temporal and intersubjective constitution of the body, self and its mental disorders from phenomenological, embodied and interdisciplinary research perspectives. The authors investigate how temporal processes apply to the contribution of embodiment and selfhood, as well as to their destabilization, such as in eating disorders and borderline personality disorders, schizophrenia, depression, social anxiety or dementia. The chapters demonstrate the applicability of phenomenological psychopathology to a range of illnesses and its relevance to treatment and clinical practice.