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This book explores how the scientific concepts of ‘information and representation’ can be used to understand subjective mental phenomena and integrate them in empathic clinical dialogues during interactions with patients. It explores key issues in clinical psychopathology coherently and systematically, illustrates advanced topics in an accessible manner using clinical case examples, metaphors and clarifying diagrams, and directly links advanced conceptual frameworks with pragmatic skills in the clinical dialogue process.
This volume is aimed at a broad audience of mental health professionals, researchers, and students in psychiatry, psychology, and social work. Its interdisciplinary treatment of the subject will also interest biologists, anthropologists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers.
‘In this tour de force, Eric Chen integrates philosophical perspectives with current themes in brain sciences to explain how we experience our environments, ourselves, and each other. An exhilarating framework for modern psychopathological inquiry, this is a must-read for anyone curious about the mind and how it can go awry.’
—Peter B. Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
List of Figures xiii
Foreword by German E. Berrios xvi
Preface xxii
Acknowledgements xxiv
Introduction 1
1. The Problem of Psychopathological Knowledge 5
2. Information in the Brain and Subjective Experiences 15
3. The Structure of Subjective Experience 50
4. Unfolding Phenomenological Processes in the Human Person 58
5. Empathic Access to Other People 69
6. Mental Representations as Containers for Information in Subjective Experiences 80
7. Representation Failure and Psychopathology 116
8. Towards a New Representational Framework in Psychopathology 129
9. Psychopathological Evaluation: The Clinical Dialogue 157
Conclusions 191
References 193
Index 212