Palgrave Macmillan | Existential Health Psychology: The Blind-Spot In Healthcare (2019 EN)

Author: Patrick Whitehead
Full Title: Existential Health Psychology: The Blind-Spot In Healthcare
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 Edition (July 4, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 9783030213558 (978-3-030-21355-8), 9783030213541 (978-3-030-21354-1)
ISBN-10: 3030213552, 3030213544
Pages: 117
Language: English
Genre: Psychology
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 51.99 €


This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine. Drawing on the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology and existential analysis in the work of Martin Heidegger, Kurt Goldstein, Medard Boss, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the author seeks to expose this lacuna and explore the ways in which it misrepresents (or misunderstands) the human condition. Whitehead begins by examining the core distinction in the sociology of medicine between “disease” and “illness” and how this distinction maps onto a more fundamental distinction between the corporeal/objective body and the experiential/lived body. Ultimately, the book exposes the tendency in modern medicine to medicalize the human condition and forwards a reorientation framed by what the author terms “existential health psychology.”

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