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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199206465
ISBN-139780199206469
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFeelings of Being : Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality
Publication Year2008
SubjectMind & Body, Movements / Existentialism, Psychopathology / General, Psychiatry / General, Physiological Psychology, Emotions
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Psychology, Medical
AuthorMatthew Ratcliffe
SeriesInternational Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-011166
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"The book gives a greatly detailed account of how the sense of the absence of meaning constitutes much of depressive and schizophrenic experience.."--Metapsychology Online Reviews"This book is for those who wonder about normal and pathological existential experiences. Clinicians...will be enriched. Medical students should...be exposed to this book, which offers a bigger picture about who we are as humans than does the mind-body split that tends to prevail today. This is not a light read, but I appreciated the journey."--Patricia E. Murphy, PhD, in Doody's"The results of Ratcliffe's analyses are illuminating and significant for the understanding of the grounding of affect and cognition in the human condition... [This] dense, well-researched, and radically significant book deserves much attention for the light it puts on the living of life."--PsycCritiques, "The book gives a greatly detailed account of how the sense of the absence of meaning constitutes much of depressive and schizophrenic experience.."-- Metapsychology Online Reviews "This book is for those who wonder about normal and pathological existential experiences. Clinicians...will be enriched. Medical students should...be exposed to this book, which offers a bigger picture about who we are as humans than does the mind-body split that tends to prevail today. This is not a light read, but I appreciated the journey."--Patricia E. Murphy, PhD, in Doody's "The results of Ratcliffe's analyses are illuminating and significant for the understanding of the grounding of affect and cognition in the human condition... [This] dense, well-researched, and radically significant book deserves much attention for the light it puts on the living of life."-- PsycCritiques, "The book gives a greatly detailed account of how the sense of the absence of meaning constitutes much of depressive and schizophrenic experience.."--Metapsychology Online Reviews "This book is for those who wonder about normal and pathological existential experiences. Clinicians...will be enriched. Medical students should...be exposed to this book, which offers a bigger picture about who we are as humans than does the mind-body split that tends to prevail today. This is not a light read, but I appreciated the journey."--Patricia E. Murphy, PhD, in Doody's "The results of Ratcliffe's analyses are illuminating and significant for the understanding of the grounding of affect and cognition in the human condition... [This] dense, well-researched, and radically significant book deserves much attention for the light it puts on the living of life."--PsycCritiques, This book is for those who wonder about normal and pathological existential experiences. Clinicians who have time to pursue philosophy will be enriched., "The book gives a greatly detailed account of how the sense of the absence of meaning constitutes much of depressive and schizophrenic experience.."--Metapsychology Online Reviews "This book is for those who wonder about normal and pathological existential experiences. Clinicians...will be enriched. Medical students should...be exposed to this book, which offers a bigger picture about who we are as humans than does the mind-body split that tends to prevail today. This is not a light read, but I appreciated the journey."--Patricia E. Murphy, PhD, inDoody's "The results of Ratcliffe's analyses are illuminating and significant for the understanding of the grounding of affect and cognition in the human condition... [This] dense, well-researched, and radically significant book deserves much attention for the light it puts on the living of life."--PsycCritiques, Ratcliffe deserves credit for drawing attention to a shortcoming in the discussion of emotions and feelings and for providing an importance corrective to this tendency.
Dewey Decimal152.4
Table Of ContentIntroductionPart I - The Structure of Existential Feeling1. Emotions and bodily feelings2. Existential feelings3. The phenomenology of touchPart II - Varieties of Existential Feeling in Psychiatric Illness4. Body and world5. Feeling and belief in the Capgras delusion6. Feelings of deadness and depersonalization7. Existential feeling in schizophreniaPart III - Existential Feeling and Philosophical Thought8. What William James really said9. Stance, feeling and belief10. Pathologies of existential feeling
SynopsisFeelings of Being is the first philosophical account of the nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. These include feelings of familiarity, unfamiliarity, estrangement, isolation, emptiness, belonging, etc. It will be valuable for all philosophers and psychiatrists interested in emotion., Feelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of 'existential feelings' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. There is a great deal of current philosophical and scientific interest in emotional feelings. However, many of the feelings that people struggle to express in their everyday lives do not appear on standard lists of emotions. For example, there are feelings of unreality, surreality, unfamiliarity, estrangement, heightened existence, isolation, emptiness, belonging, significance, insignificance, and the list goes on. Ratcliffe refers to such feelings as 'existential' because they comprise a changeable sense of being part of a worldIn this book, Ratcliffe argues that existential feelings form a distinctive group by virtue of three characteristics: they are bodily feelings, they constitute ways of relating to the world as a whole, and they are responsible for our sense of reality. He explains how something can be a bodily feeling and, at the same time, a sense of reality and belonging. He then explores the role of altered feeling in psychiatric illness, showing how an account of existential feeling can help us to understand experiential changes that occur in a range of conditions, including depression, circumscribed delusions, depersonalisation and schizophrenia. The book also addresses the contribution made by existential feelings to religious experience and to philosophical thought., There is a great deal of current philosophical and scientific interest in emotional feelings. However, many of the feelings that people struggle to express in their everyday lives do not appear on standard lists of emotions. For example, there are feelings of unreality, heightened existence, surreality, familiarity, unfamiliarity, estrangement, strangeness, isolation, emptiness, belonging, being at home in the world, being at one with things, significance, insignificance, and the list goes on. Such feelings might be referred to as 'existential' because they comprise a changeable sense of being part of a world. Existential feelings have not been systematically explored until now, despite the important role that they play in our lives and the devastating effects that disturbances of existential feeling can have in psychiatric illness. Feelings of Being is the first ever philosophical account of the nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. In this book, Matthew Ratcliffe proposes that existential feelings form a distinctive group by virtue of three characteristics: they are bodily feelings, they constitute ways of relating to the world as a whole, and they are responsible for our sense of reality. The book explains how something can be a bodily feeling and, at the same time, a sense of reality and belonging. It then explores the role of changed feeling in psychiatric illness, showing how an account of existential feeling can help us to understand experiential changes that occur in a range of conditions, including depression, circumscribed delusions, depersonalisation and schizophrenia. The book also addresses the contribution made by existential feelings to religious experience and to philosophical thought. Written in a clear, non-technical style throughout, it will be valuable for philosophers, clinicians, students, and researchers working in a wide range of disciplines.
LC Classification NumberBF511.R338 2008
