Medicalized Psychiatry and the Talking Cure: A Hermeneutic Intervention

Autor:	Kevin Aho, Charles Guignon
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Sociology and Political Science Self Dialogical self Psychological intervention Talking cure Modern philosophy Philosophy Intervention (counseling) medicine Sociology Political philosophy Psychiatry Sociolinguistics
Zdroj:	Human Studies. 34:293-308
ISSN:	1572-851X 0163-8548
DOI:	10.1007/s10746-011-9192-y
Popis:	The dominance of the medical-model in American psychiatry over the last 30 years has resulted in the subsequent decline of the “talking cure”. In this paper, we identify a number of problems associated with medicalized psychiatry, focusing primarily on how it conceptualizes the self as a de-contextualized set of symptoms. Drawing on the tradition of hermeneutic phenomenology, we argue that medicalized psychiatry invariably overlooks the fact that our identities, and the meanings and values that matter to us, are created and constituted by our dialogical relations with others. While acknowledging the importance of medical and pharmaceutical interventions, we suggest that it is only by means of the dialogical interplay of the talking cure that the client can both recognize unhealthy and self-defeating ways of being and be opened up to the possibility of new meanings and self-interpretations.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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