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Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality
Matthew Ratcliffe
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Description for Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality
Paperback. Feelings 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. Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JM; MMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199206469
SKU
V9780199206469
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About Matthew Ratcliffe
Matthew Ratcliffe is Reader in Philosophy at Durham University, UK. He works primarily on phenomenology, philosophical psychology and philosophy of psychiatry. He is author of Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor, with Daniel Hutto, of Folk Psychology Re-assessed (Springer, 2007).
Reviews for Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality
This book is for those who wonder about normal and pathological existential experiences. Clinicians who have time to pursue philosophy will be enriched.
Patricia E. Murphy. PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
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.
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Patricia E. Murphy. PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
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.
Phenom ... Read more