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Psychopathology of depression and mania: symptoms, phenomena and syndromes

Psychopathology of depression and mania: symptoms, phenomena and syndromes

  Fuchs Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Head of the Section Phenomenological Psychopathology, Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg   Summary The paper gives a phenomenological account of depression and mania in terms of body, space, temporality and intersubjectiv- ity. While the lived body is normally embedded into the world and mediates our relations to others, depression interrupts this embodied contact to the world. Local or general oppression condenses the fluid lived body to a solid, heavy “corporeal body”….

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