A Structuralist Approach in Psychiatry
Uncanny and Desire in Psychosis
by Jos de Kroon
1st Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781041146322 |
| eText ISBN | 9781040626979 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2026 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 214 |
A Structuralist Approach in Psychiatry: Uncanny and Desire in Psychosis, 1st Edition, proposes an alternative understanding of the psychiatric patient by linking continental post-structuralist thought with clinical practice. The volume articulates a structuralist model of human subjectivity that counters physicalist reductionism by emphasizing the structuring power of language.
It investigates interactions among the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic, especially within the experience of psychosis. The text explores how the negative operates within symptomatology, using Cotard's syndrome to demonstrate how an individual encounters the Symbolic and continually reinvents subjectivity through speech.
Grounded in the concept of the zero point, the work places speaking and listening at the center of psychiatric care. It offers conceptual grounding for mental healthcare professionals and students preparing for clinical careers.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Outline of the problem facing psychiatry
Chapter 2: Historical development of Psychiatry from the Enlightenment
Chapter 3: Structuralism
Chapter 4: Fundamental Impossibilities
Chapter 5: Nothingness and Science
Chapter 6: Nothingness as creative moment
Chapter 7: As in a black mirror; Cotard’s syndrome
Chapter 8: The Stranger in ourselves; Capgras Syndrome
Chapter 9: Experience of Nothingness
Chapter 10: Subject and Science
Chapter 11: Looking for the Psyche in Psychiatry
Chapter 12: Sketch of an Alternative
Chapter 13: Friedrich Nietzsche and Degree Zero of Morality
Chapter 14: Interlude, Fable
Chapter 15: Martin Heidegger and Nothingness
Chapter 16: Nothingness at Jacques Lacan
Chapter 17: Slavoj Žižek: Can it be Less than Nothing?
Chapter 18: Genealogy of Creation
Chapter 19: Towards a Structuralist Psychiatry
Chapter 20: The Role of Linguistics in a Therapeutic Perspective
Chapter 21: The Eclipse of the (Psychotic) Subject?
Chapter 22: What about the Self?
Chapter 23: An Object Relations Theory without an Object
Chapter 24: Psychiatry and the Transcendental
Chapter 25: The Ethical Implications of Mysticism and Desire
Chapter 26: The Subject as a Dynamic Process: From Deadlock to Transformation-Symbolisation as a Response to Nothingness
Chapter 27: Everything or Nothing-About Mysticism and the Genesis of the Subject
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