Beyond the Limits of Mental Illness: Dignity and Dignity Therapy in Person- Centered Psychiatry
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Luigi Grassi
Abstract
Amongst the many consequences of psychiatric disorders, such as poor quality of life and poor health, increased physical morbidity, and lower lifeexpectancy, some are of particularly relevance, such as stigma, discrimination and similar assaults to human dignity. In order to reduce the alienation of those affected by mental illness, person-centered psychiatry is an approach to promote a medicine of the person, for the person, by the person and with the person. Dignity- conserving care is part of this approach and it should be practiced in mental health care settings, enabling partnerships with people encountering psychiatric disorders that include mitigating loss of identity, shattering of their self-image, and various challenges within the psychological, interpersonal, spiritual and existential domains. Dignity Therapy, as a personalized and empirically-based intervention developed for patients with life-threatening or limiting illnesses, has been applied in psychiatric settings showing a reduction of stigma and suffering.
Abstract
Amongst the many consequences of psychiatric disorders, such as poor quality of life and poor health, increased physical morbidity, and lower lifeexpectancy, some are of particularly relevance, such as stigma, discrimination and similar assaults to human dignity. In order to reduce the alienation of those affected by mental illness, person-centered psychiatry is an approach to promote a medicine of the person, for the person, by the person and with the person. Dignity- conserving care is part of this approach and it should be practiced in mental health care settings, enabling partnerships with people encountering psychiatric disorders that include mitigating loss of identity, shattering of their self-image, and various challenges within the psychological, interpersonal, spiritual and existential domains. Dignity Therapy, as a personalized and empirically-based intervention developed for patients with life-threatening or limiting illnesses, has been applied in psychiatric settings showing a reduction of stigma and suffering.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Abbreviations IX
- Introduction 1
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First Part: What about Eternity?
- The Eternity of Every Being and the “Trace” of the Infinite in the Finite According to Emanuele Severino 11
- Emanuele Severino. Sózein tà Phainómena 23
- The Absolute Appearing of Eternity as the Original Meaning of Time 35
- Note on the Dialogue between Severino and Vitiello 49
- Time, Eternity, Freedom in Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Ricoeur 55
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Second Part: The Eternity Concealed in the Cosmos and the Secrets of Consciousness
- The Basic Ideas of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology 69
- How Studying Black Hole Theory May Help Us to Quantize Gravity 85
- Uncertainty Principle and Gravity 99
- The Big Bang’s New Clothes and Eternity 111
- For a Science of Consciousness 127
- Freedom and Artificial Intelligence 137
- Brain, Mind, the Arrow of Time and Consciousness 149
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Third Part: Eternity, Time and Faith
- The Eighth Day. Biblical Time as Openness of Chronological Time 163
- Time, Revelation or Negation of the Eternal? The Modern Metaphor of the “Death of God” 173
- Cosmology and Cosmologhia: A Much Needed Distinction 181
- God and the Big Bang: Past and Modern Debates between Science and Theology 189
- “Qu’est-ce qu’un homme, dans l’infini?”. Eternity and Infinity in Blaise Pascal and in the 17th-Century Geometrizing Ontologies 201
- Eternity and Otherness from the Perspective of Dialogic Thinking. Inspirations and Contaminations in and from Romano Guardini, Franz Rosenzweig, and Nishida Kitarō 213
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Fourth Part: Existential Corollaries
- Eternity, Instant, Duration. Tangere aeternum 225
- Finitude and Project: For Which Space? And for What Time? 235
- The Last Waltz: Finitude, Loneliness and Exiting from Life 249
- Beyond the Limits of Mental Illness: Dignity and Dignity Therapy in Person- Centered Psychiatry 257
- Beyond Alienation: Severino’s Removal of Pathological Contradiction 271
- Names 285
- Concepts 289
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Abbreviations IX
- Introduction 1
-
First Part: What about Eternity?
- The Eternity of Every Being and the “Trace” of the Infinite in the Finite According to Emanuele Severino 11
- Emanuele Severino. Sózein tà Phainómena 23
- The Absolute Appearing of Eternity as the Original Meaning of Time 35
- Note on the Dialogue between Severino and Vitiello 49
- Time, Eternity, Freedom in Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Ricoeur 55
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Second Part: The Eternity Concealed in the Cosmos and the Secrets of Consciousness
- The Basic Ideas of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology 69
- How Studying Black Hole Theory May Help Us to Quantize Gravity 85
- Uncertainty Principle and Gravity 99
- The Big Bang’s New Clothes and Eternity 111
- For a Science of Consciousness 127
- Freedom and Artificial Intelligence 137
- Brain, Mind, the Arrow of Time and Consciousness 149
-
Third Part: Eternity, Time and Faith
- The Eighth Day. Biblical Time as Openness of Chronological Time 163
- Time, Revelation or Negation of the Eternal? The Modern Metaphor of the “Death of God” 173
- Cosmology and Cosmologhia: A Much Needed Distinction 181
- God and the Big Bang: Past and Modern Debates between Science and Theology 189
- “Qu’est-ce qu’un homme, dans l’infini?”. Eternity and Infinity in Blaise Pascal and in the 17th-Century Geometrizing Ontologies 201
- Eternity and Otherness from the Perspective of Dialogic Thinking. Inspirations and Contaminations in and from Romano Guardini, Franz Rosenzweig, and Nishida Kitarō 213
-
Fourth Part: Existential Corollaries
- Eternity, Instant, Duration. Tangere aeternum 225
- Finitude and Project: For Which Space? And for What Time? 235
- The Last Waltz: Finitude, Loneliness and Exiting from Life 249
- Beyond the Limits of Mental Illness: Dignity and Dignity Therapy in Person- Centered Psychiatry 257
- Beyond Alienation: Severino’s Removal of Pathological Contradiction 271
- Names 285
- Concepts 289
