Studia Metodologiczne, 2013, nr 30

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Pojęcie choroby psychicznej w fenomenologicznej perspektywie
(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2013) Kapusta, Andrzej
The article presents ongoing discussions on the concept of mental illness, especially its phenomenological approach. The point of departure is Karl Jaspers’ Allgemeine Psychopatologie - important inspiration for the critics of the contemporary psychiatric classifications and biomedical explanations (biological, psychological) that, in general, ignores essential dimensions of morbid experience and don’t regard illness as an action failure of “ordinary doing”. Present-day dispute over the nature of mental illness with such names as Szasz, Boorse, Fulfors reveals a diversity of mental symptoms and its normative character. In spite of the possibilities of multilevel analysis of human’s psychopathology we consider patient’s feelings and experience. Svenaeus’ understanding of mental disorder is presented to demonstrate existential and experiential dimensions of disorder. The analysis of embodied (inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s research) aspects of disorders attempt to overcome the limits between mental and somatic elements of psychiatric disorder.