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Author : Mitch Horowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889605326
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Depression and Metaphysics written by Mitch Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitch Horowitz
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722526319
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Depression & Metaphysics written by Mitch Horowitz and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us embark on the spiritual search seeking relief from depression and anxiety. In this revealing and deeply meaningful book, Mitch makes a frank and responsible survey of how the spiritual path can aid or impede you in this journey. As Mitch reveals from his many years as a writer, publisher, and seeker, the spiritual culture does not always respond wisely to the needs of people seeking emotional health. Nor can spiritual progress and emotional health necessarily be equated. Mitch lays out a new paradigm for how you can combine traditional, alternative, and self-designed approaches to find the right path forward in your search for the higher and need for emotional wellbeing.
Author : Matthew Ratcliffe
Publisher : International Perspectives in
ISBN 13 : 0199608970
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Experiences of Depression written by Matthew Ratcliffe and published by International Perspectives in. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of Depression is a philosophical exploration of what it is like to be depressed. In this important new book, Matthew Ratcliffe develops a detailed account of depression experiences by drawing on work in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and several other disciplines. In so doing, he makes clear how phenomenological research can contribute to psychiatry, by helping us to better understand patients' experiences, as well as informing classification, diagnosis, and treatment. Throughout the book, Ratcliffe also emphasizes the relevance of depression to philosophical enquiry. He proposes that, by reflecting on how experiences of depression differ from 'healthy' forms of experience, we can refine our understanding of both. Hence phenomenological research of this kind has much wider applicability. He further shows how the study of depression experiences can inform philosophical approaches to a range of topics, including interpersonal understanding and empathy, free will, the experience of time, the nature of emotion and feeling, what it is to believe something, and what it is to hope. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand and relate to experiences of depression, including philosophers, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, therapists, and those who have been directly or indirectly affected by depression.
Author : Alina N. Feld
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739166034
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Melancholy and the Otherness of God written by Alina N. Feld and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.
Author : Sean Waters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Depression written by Sean Waters and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Redeker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Depression and Philosophy written by Robert Redeker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is, in the words of Dr. Norman Freed, a 'rich picture of an empty landscape, the depression that is to be engaged to maximally avoid it and its ramifications'. This work explores the philosophical aspects of the plague of depression found throughout the modern world. Depression, once called melancholy (as in ""The Anatomy of Melancholy of Robert Burton"", of 1621, or closer to us, that ""Black Sun of Melancholy"" of the suicide Nerval...), according to Robert Redeker - philosopher, teacher, author of half-a-dozen books and many articles and reviews, member of the 'comite' of Les Temps Modernes, and recently become a nomadic intellectual, or 'scholar-gypsy', subsequent to Jihadist 'fatwas' that were leveled against him after an article he published in the ""Figaro"" calling on a 'terrorist' Islam to establish its humanist credentials, if there were any to establish - has lost its aristocratic, aesthetic and elitist luster, which it once had in the epoch of Musset's ""Confessions"", Vigny's ""Chatterton"", Chateaubriand's ""Rene"", Nerval's ""El Deschidado"", and, of course, Baudelaire's ""Les Fleurs du Mal"". Redeker shrewdly, even uncannily, locates a prophetically watershed moment in Flaubert's contemporaneous Emma Bovary, the first of the 'desperate housewives', unprecedented in the fact that her melancholy had nothing to do with its typical etiology of an artist's alienation from a bourgeois world (say from Vigny's ""Chatterton"" to Artaud's ""Van Gogh, Suicided by Society"") but rather stemmed from the pressures and frustrations of living in society, as from ""Civilization and Its Discontents"" we all suffer from, artists or not (maybe nonartists even more, since they can't make art out of it), as Freud later was to conceptualize the issue. Equally if not more widespread and spreading than the 'manic' nervousness and stress limned above, melancholy or depression today, as conceived in Redeker's book, ""Depression and Philosophy"", may be the other side of this sad psychological seesaw of a syndrome (as in 'manic-depressive'), with its roots in the same soil, if the flagrant oxymoron may be allowed of a soil for rootlessness; depression rising from our being 'starved' of any meaningful tie, connection, bond to ourselves, a world or a cosmos, 'A malady attacking these ties renders human life impossible. The ties which allow habitation are like ropes and cables in mountain climbing and at sea: when they're unloosened, we are loosened from ourselves, from others, and we're done for. A feeling of falling is frequent in the collapse which is depression' (p. 11). Our pandemic depression is also conceived of here as having been accompanied and even facilitated by a corresponding derogation of philosophy from its traditional 'task' of providing a stable basis and essence for human existence. However, as with Love the one who inflicted the wound may be in the best position to heal it; or, in the words of the mad, but strangely sane Holderlin: 'there where the danger is greatest, rescue is nearest'.
Author : David Bain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351115448
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Suffering written by David Bain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is, always and everywhere, bad. But might suffering also be good? If so, in what ways might suffering have positive, as well as negative, value? This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of suffering from a philosophical perspective. An outstanding roster of international contributors explore the nature of suffering, pain, and valence, as well as the value of suffering and the relationships between suffering, morality, and rationality. Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive and behavioral psychology as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues regarding suffering and pain.
Author : Mary Parrish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Healing from PTSD, Depression, and Conversion Disorder with Metaphysical Meditation written by Mary Parrish and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Kheriaty
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1622821130
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Catholic Guide to Depression written by Aaron Kheriaty and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless Christians — including scores of saints — have suffered profound, pervasive sorrow that modern psychiatrists call “depression.” Then, as now, great faith and even fervent spiritual practices have generally failed to ease this wearying desolation of soul. In these pages, Catholic psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty reviews the effective ways that have recently been devised to deal with this grave and sometimes deadly affliction — ways that are not only consistent with the teachings of the Church, but even rooted in many of those teachings. Extensive clinical experience treating patients with depression has shown Dr. Kheriaty that the confessional can't cure neuroses, nor can the couch forgive sin. Healing comes only when we integrate the legitimate discoveries of modern psychology and pharmacology with spiritual direction and the Sacraments, giving particular attention to the wisdom of the Church Fathers and the saints. Here, with the expert help of Dr. Kheriaty, you'll learn how to distinguish depression from similarlooking but fundamentally different mental states such as guilt, sloth, the darkness of sin, and the sublime desolation called “dark night of the soul” that is, in fact, a privileged spiritual trial sent to good souls as a special gift from God. You'll come to know how to identify the various types of depression and come to understand the interplay of their often manifold causes, biological, psychological, behavioral, cultural, and, yes, moral. Then you'll learn about exciting breakthroughs in pharmacological and other medical treatments, the benefits and limitations of psychotherapy, the critical place that spiritual direction must have in your healing, and the vital role that hope — Christian hope — can play in driving out depression.
Author : Richard Gipps
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199579563
Total Pages : 1341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry written by Richard Gipps and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area every published - one that is essential for both students and researchers in this field.
Author : Peter Zachar
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262027046
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book A Metaphysics of Psychopathology written by Peter Zachar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis. In psychiatry, few question the legitimacy of asking whether a given psychiatric disorder is real; similarly, in psychology, scholars debate the reality of such theoretical entities as general intelligence, superegos, and personality traits. And yet in both disciplines, little thought is given to what is meant by the rather abstract philosophical concept of “real.” Indeed, certain psychiatric disorders have passed from real to imaginary (as in the case of multiple personality disorder) and from imaginary to real (as in the case of post-traumatic stress disorder). In this book, Peter Zachar considers such terms as “real” and “reality”—invoked in psychiatry but often obscure and remote from their instances—as abstract philosophical concepts. He then examines the implications of his approach for psychiatric classification and psychopathology. Proposing what he calls a scientifically inspired pragmatism, Zachar considers such topics as the essentialist bias, diagnostic literalism, and the concepts of natural kind and social construct. Turning explicitly to psychiatric topics, he proposes a new model for the domain of psychiatric disorders, the imperfect community model, which avoids both relativism and essentialism. He uses this model to understand such recent controversies as the attempt to eliminate narcissistic personality disorder from the DSM-5. Returning to such concepts as real, true, and objective, Zachar argues that not only should we use these metaphysical concepts to think philosophically about other concepts, we should think philosophically about them.
Author : Matthew W. Gallagher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019939931X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Hope written by Matthew W. Gallagher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope has long been a topic of interest for psychologists, philosophers, educators, and physicians. In the past few decades, researchers from various disciplines and from around the world have studied how hope relates to superior academic performance, improved outcomes in the workplace, and improved psychological and physical health in individuals of all ages. Edited by Matthew W. Gallagher and the late Shane J. Lopez, The Oxford Handbook of Hope provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive update on the past 25 years of hope research while simultaneously providing an outline of what leading hope researchers believe the future of this line of research to be. In this extraordinary volume, Gallagher, Lopez, and their expert team of contributors discuss such topics as how best to define hope, how hope is distinguished from related philosophical and psychological constructs, what the current best practices are for measuring and quantifying hope, interventions and strategies for promoting hope across a variety of settings, the impact it has on physical and mental health, and the ways in which hope promotes positive functioning. Throughout its pages, these experts review what is currently known about hope and identify the topics and questions that will help guide the next decade of research ahead.
Author : C. Steven Richards
Publisher : Oxford Library of Psychology
ISBN 13 : 0199797005
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity written by C. Steven Richards and published by Oxford Library of Psychology. This book was released on 2014 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression is frequently associated with other psychiatric disorders and is often related to chronic health problems. Depressive symptoms are also common in chronically distressed close relationships and severe interpersonal difficulties in families and at work. The topic of depressive comorbidity is clearly very important, and while recent research in this area has been methodologically sophisticated, well presented, and inherently interesting, there has not been a comprehensive, academic resource that covers recent developments in this area. The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity brings together scholarly contributions from world-class researchers to present a careful and empirically based review of depressive comorbidity. Cutting-edge chapters address theory, research, and practice, while capturing the diversity, evidence-base, and importance of depressive comorbidity. Specific topics include the comorbidity between depression and PTSD, alcohol use, and eating, anxiety, panic, bipolar, personality, and sleep disorders, as well as schizophrenia, suicide, cardiovascular disease, cancer, pain, obesity, intimate relationships, and many more. The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity is a unique and much-needed resource that will be helpful to a broad range of researchers and practitioners including clinical and counseling psychologists, psychiatrists, marital and family therapists, social workers, and counselors working in mental-health and general health-care settings, as well as students in these areas.
Author : Chris Letheby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192581090
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Psychedelics written by Chris Letheby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two administrations. Supervised psychedelic sessions can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and addiction, and improve well-being in healthy volunteers, for months or even years. But these benefits seem to be mediated by "mystical" experiences of cosmic consciousness, which prompts a philosophical concern: do psychedelics cause psychological benefits by inducing false or implausible beliefs about the metaphysical nature of reality? This book is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to the philosophical analysis of psychedelic drugs. Its central focus is the apparent conflict between the growing use of psychedelics in psychiatry and the philosophical worldview of naturalism. Within the book, Letheby integrates empirical evidence and philosophical considerations in the service of a simple conclusion: this "Comforting Delusion Objection" to psychedelic therapy fails. While exotic metaphysical ideas do sometimes come up, they are not, on closer inspection, the central driver of change in psychedelic therapy. Psychedelics lead to lasting benefits by altering the sense of self, and changing how people relate to their own minds and lives-not by changing their beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality. The upshot is that a traditional conception of psychedelics as agents of insight and spirituality can be reconciled with naturalism (the philosophical position that the natural world is all there is). Controlled psychedelic use can lead to genuine forms of knowledge gain and spiritual growth-even if no Cosmic Consciousness or transcendent divine Reality exists. Philosophy of Psychedelics is an indispensable guide to the literature for researchers already engaged in the field of psychedelic psychiatry, and for researchers-especially philosophers-who want to become acquainted with this increasingly topical field.
Author : Dan J. Stein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107402959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Psychopharmacology written by Dan J. Stein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotropic agents have been effective for the treatment of the emotional, and cognitive symptoms of serious psychiatric disorders. At the same time, the availability of such agents raises questions about the appropriate use of what might be termed 'smart pills', 'happy pills', or 'pep pills'. This volume argues that developments in modern psychopharmacology raise a range of important philosophical questions, and may ultimately change the way we think about ourselves. It provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The approach is a naturalistic one, drawing on theory and data from modern cognitive-affective neuroscience and attempts to address objective and subjective aspects of psychiatric disorders, to integrate our knowledge of mechanisms and meanings, and to provide a balanced view of the good and the bad of psychotropics.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Matthew Ratcliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191548529
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Feelings of Being written by Matthew Ratcliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 world In 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.
